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50.2 Feature: “Custodians” by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles
50.2 Feature: "Custodians" by 2023 Poetry Contest Winner, Rick Hilles Rick Hilles, a recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Fulbright, and a Whiting Writers Award, is the author of BROTHER SALVAGE and A MAP OF THE LOST WORLD. This prizewinning...
2024 “Creatures” Contest Shortlist Announcement
We at BWR are immensely proud to announce the following writers & works selected for our official "Creatures" Contest shortlist! While we cherished every flash fiction & nonfiction combination thereof that we received for our first-ever themed contest, the...
“I wrote a weird, little guy essay”: Sophie Ezzell on Creative Nonfiction, Nostalgia, and Prioritizing Kindness in Art
Sophie Ezzell is a queer Urban Appalachian writer. Her nonfiction has been nominated for multiple Pushcarts and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Sun, River Teeth, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, and others. Sophie received her MFA from Oklahoma State...
“Joy and Some Flailing and Very Low Stakes”: A Conversation with Donika Kelly
DONIKA KELLY is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the...
50.2 Feature: “The Tick” by 2023 Flash Contest Winner, Emily Crossen
Emily Crossen's stories have appeared in Ecotone, New England Review, and Zoetrope: All-Story, where she received first prize in the 2022 Short Fiction Competition. She grew up in Pennsylvania and now lives in California with her family. Click on the excerpt to the...
50.2 Feature: “Forks of Buffalo” by 2023 Fiction Contest Winner, Ron MacLean
Ron MacLean is the author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something On Fire and Why the Long Face? and the novels Blue Winnetka Skies and Headlong, winner of the 2014 Indie Book Award for Best Mystery. MacLean’s fiction has appeared widely in magazines...
Announcing BWR’s 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing Nominees
We at BWR are immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works that appeared in our pages for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing.
2022 Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners and runners-up of our 2022 Contests in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Flash. We are forever grateful to our inimitable judges: Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Diane Seuss, Kendra Allen, & Angie Sijun Lou. Dennis...
Aiden Heung
This Moment (After Eavan Boland)by Aiden HeungAn imaginary tree, green as spring. Children’s voices scud like birds out of a cage, hurrying into parchment clouds. The day ends before it begins to make sense. But still, I stand in front of my...
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Week of the Catby Emily Yang / 楊佳諭 On Sundays, the day her week begins, Cat goes to the movies. She loves everything about it, the movies: the below-freezing temperatures, the plushness of the plum velvet seating—even the salty knock of unpopped corn kernels...