FEATURE
49.2 Feature: “Mother Road” by Fiction Contest Runner-Up Lauren Hohle
Mother Roadby Lauren HohleBWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Runner-UpBefore she was my mother, my mother performed in a hallelujah band on an Alaskan cruise ship. She sang “Shine, Jesus Shine” and shook a tambourine and strummed a pock-marked Sears catalog guitar for three...
49.2 Feature: “Theatre Masks” by Fiction Contest winner Dennis Mugaa
Theatre Masksby Dennis MugaaBWR 49.2 Fiction Contest WinnerI remember the day Gumato disappeared so clearly. We had just arrived from Johannesburg at six in the morning. We were outside the airport arrivals terminal. Our history teacher, Mr. T, was calling our school...
49.2 Feature: “Ars Poetica :: Worm Music” by Poetry Contest Runner-Up David Ehmcke
Ars Poetica :: Worm Musicby David EhmckeBWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Runner-UpIt was a worm in the mind. It felt like a worm in the mind. It was a germ of music in the mind made muddy with puddles of grief. It germinated, made a music out of muddy me,...
48.2 Feature: ANTI, Chapbook by Jade Yeung
ANTIby Jade YeungBWR 48.2 Chapbook Read ANTI here In which mom asks me what I need I attempt again A series of six Cantonese tone charts that graph the pitch and time of six tones....
48.2 Feature: “Initiation” by Flash Contest runner-up Chidi Onyia
Initiationby Chidi OnyiaBWR 48.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up I stand on a huge red mud ridge that snakes from the base of the ancient hills, the remnants of a mudslide that occurred in antiquity when great tectonic forces pushed the ground upwards. Later when the people...
48.1 Feature: This Is My Testimony, Chapbook by JinJin Xu
This Is My Testimony by JinJin Xu BWR 48.1 Chapbook tes·ti·mo·ny: 1. a spoken or written statement that something is true how might a testimony dwell in silence Click here to read "This Is My Testimony" by JinJin Xu JinJin Xu is a writer & filmmaker from...
48.2 Feature: “The House on Ilanda Street” by Fiction Contest winner Yvette Ndlovu
The House on Ilanda Streetby Yvette NdlovuBWR 48.2 Fiction Contest WinnerThe house disappears on a Sunday morning in April. Mama, the neighborhood gossip, is the first to notice. She wakes up with the sunrise to pin her laundry up on the clothesline. Our backyard is a...
48.2 Feature: “The Pig Was Skinned” by Poetry Contest winner Tamara Panici
The Pig Was Skinned by Tamara Panici BWR 48.2 Poetry Contest Winner There was a man on my brother’s bed. The man was in our bedroom. I did not recognize the man. The man was wearing colored robes. My sister slept next to me. She slept like a doll. She slept next to me...
48.2 Feature: “Dusk” by Nonfiction Contest winner Mia Nakaji Monnier
Duskby Mia Nakaji MonnierBWR 48.2 Nonfiction Contest Winner I watch the sky to see if I can pinpoint the moment when one thing turns into another. The sun sets out of view. The sky turns blue again, deepening like shades of indigo-dyed fabric, soaked progressively...
48.2 Feature: “Sunday School” by Flash Contest Winner Jamila Osman
Sunday Schoolby Jamila OsmanBWR 48.2 Flash Contest WinnerA semi colon is the distance between two closely related independent clauses ; d = st ; A semicolon can be replaced by a conjunction and a comma. Click here to read "Sunday School" by Jamila Osman An...