FEATURE
44.1 Sneak Peek: ABSOLUTE ZERO AND ME by Ana Cristina Alvarez
Ana Cristina Alvarez received her MFA from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Her work has appeared in The Butter and Treehouse Magazine. She lives near Seattle, WA, close to many coffeehouses. Right-click and "open image in new tab"...
from A HUNDRED THOUSAND HOURS by Gro Dahle, translated by Rebecca Wadlinger
I find translation fascinating because of the way it allows writers engage with other writers' work and, by extension, opens up so much room for the slippage and transformation of meaning for readers as well. There's all these undercurrents and endless...
HER EXHIBIT IS CURATED by Lindsey Drager
Here we have a yawn. It is discursive and open, an unleashing. An empty mouth destroys itself not accidentally.
From the Archives: fragments from RECONSOLIDATION by Janice Lee, 2012 Nonfiction Contest Winner
There is a thin film of muteness over everything I now encounter, “ghost” just another word for “mother,” just another word for “memory,” just another word for “gone.”
2016 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up THE FUTURE OF THE LYING BODY by Sarah Cook
Click here for more information about our 2017 contest. Sarah Cook's writing has appeared in Illuminati Girl Gang, Gaga Stigmata, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Her latest chapbook, "Somewhere the / Shaking," is newly out from above/ground press. She writes...
2016 Contest: Poetry Runner-up HEAVEN MAKE ME A WARRIOR TO SLAY ALL THE BAD MAGIC by Lauren Eggert-Crowe
2016 poetry judge Hoa Nguyen selected “Heaven Make Me a Warrior to Slay all the Bad Magic” by Lauren Eggert-Crowe as the poetry runner-up.
2016 Contest: Fiction Runner-up TELL ME A STORY ABOUT LIONS by Abby Horowitz
“Tell Me a Story About Lions” is a fairytale with teeth. It brings together the figures of the mother and the carnivore, pitting care of the self against caring for others. The results are gripping, unsettling, and delicious.
43.2 Feature: Melissa R. Sipin Reads MY LOLA, THE RIVER
Click here for more 43.2 featured content. Nicknamed "small but terrible" by her lola, Melissa R. Sipin was born and raised in Carson, CA. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things (Carayan Press 2014) and is Editor-in-Chief of TAYO Literary Magazine. Her work is...
National Poetry Month: from HOUSE OF DEER by Sasha Steensen
This year, for national poetry month, we asked our assistant poetry editors to pick a favorite poem published by BWR, write a little bit about why they liked it, and record themselves reading it aloud. "In an excerpt from “House of Deer,” Sasha Steensen...
43.2 Feature: Craft Essay by James A.H. White
While in line with a few friends to clench my way through Disneyworld’s Hollywood Studios’ The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a ride that mimics the (repeated) plummeting of a 13-story service elevator, I eavesdropped on the young boy and girl waiting behind me as they asked their father what exactly it was they were about to experience.