FEATURE
49.2 Feature: “Occipital” by Flash Contest Winner Engram Wilkinson
Occipitalby Engram WilkinsonBWR 49.2 Flash Contest WinnerHe sat, experiencing the familiar itch in his brain along the edge of a lobe whose name he could never remember. A body is a simple disappointment. He used it to look at his co-workers, who looked at each other...
49.2 Feature: “My Brother Speaks” by Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Catina Bacote
My Brother Speaks: "That's the Way We're Going to Survive"by Catina BacoteBWR 49.2 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Click here to read the full piece: "My Brother Speaks" by Catina Bacote Catina Bacote is a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and the award supports her...
49.2 Feature: “I Google My Assailant” by Nonfiction Contest Winner Gwen Niekamp
I Google My Assailant: A Found Essay with Commentaryby Gwen NiekampBWR 49.2 Nonfiction Contest Winner Click here to read "I Google My Assailant" by Gwen Niekamp Gwen Niekamp is a Ph.D. student in creative writing at Florida State University. She holds an MFA...
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...