FEATURE
Exclusive Online Feature: “Rabbit Moon, Lake Nighthorse” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Runner-Up, Elizabeth Bowling
RABBIT MOON, LAKE NIGHTHORSE Glassine, the surface in which mountain and moon reflect. My lake. A soft one comes to the water’s edge, pad-pad pad... one-two three, a crooked waltz. I recognize the cadence, the long ears that shift toward any slight sound....
Exclusive Online Feature: “Yamabiko” by BWR’s 2024 Creatures Contest Winner, Amber Adams
YAMABIKO 山彦 For two months, my brother lived with the yamabiko. When initial search-and-rescue efforts turned up empty-handed, the yamabiko understood that my brother, buried, was going to be a guest on his mountain until the weather conditions changed. In his...
“erring on the end of overflowing beauty”: A Discussion with Chigozie Obioma, Author of The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma was born in Akure, Nigeria. His two novels, The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019) were shortlisted for The Booker Prize, making him one of only two novelists to be shortlisted for all their works. They have won about a dozen prizes...
“tentatively eking their way towards hope”: An Interview with Kathryne David Gargano, Author of Pentimenti
Kathryne David Gargano (she/they) is a queer, Jewish writer interested in myth, retellings, art, and religion. They received their PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, where they served as the Managing Editor of Cream...
50.2 Feature: “Close to the Slaughterhouse” by 2023 Nonfiction Contest Winner, Nadine Monem
Nadine Monem is an Egyptian-Canadian writer and editor. She graduated with an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck (University of London) in 2021, and since then her work has been published or supported by Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Catapult Books, The...
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...
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...