Four authors. One fascinating conversation.✨We're thrilled to welcome @meghanor.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social & Rebekah Taussig for a live online panel with BLR editor @danielleofri on March 26. Free - RSVP today! www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
Virginia Chase Sutton's "Lithium and the Absence of Desire" poetically explores medication's side effects ("You have no idea what you are giving away...") blreview.org/poetry/lithi...
The late Seth Carey's essay, "The Absolute Worst Thing," takes a bittersweet look at his life with ALS. blreview.org/nonfiction/t...
John Thompson's story "His Own Time" takes place in a prison in which one inmate has decided to end it all. How the other prisoners view this is anything but cliché. blreview.org/fiction/his-...
Throughout our 25th anniversary year 🎉, we're taking a look back through the BLR archive, with special highlights from each of our issues. 📖 In our Issue 8 highlight, we feature writing by John Thompson, Seth Carey, and Virginia Chase Sutton. blreview.org/issue-highli...
Join us for a shared reading experience!
📚 read more intentionally
📚 engage in meaningful dialogue
📚 experience literature in community
Stay tuned to find out what book we’ll be reading...
Learn more: blreview.org/blr-book-club/
The cover of BLR Issue 7 is one of our favorites, illustrating the striking quality of natural-light photography and its ability to capture a moment. We are grateful to
@bellevuehosp.bsky.social archives for the photos that grace our older covers. 📷
Throughout our anniversary year 🎉, we're inviting you on a journey through the BLR archive, with stories, poems, photos, and more. This week features Issue 7 highlights from from authors Hollis Seamon, Robin Fast, and Sandra Giedeman. More: blreview.org/issue-highli...
We reopen to submissions on March 1!
🖊️ Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
🖊️ General submissions & the BLR Literary Prizes
🖊️ More at blreview.org/submit/
Our anniversary lookback this week includes Issue 6 highlights, including Ronna Wineberg's lovely foreword. For more, check out our full issue blog post ✍️ blreview.org/issue-highli...
Throughout our anniversary year 🎉, we're inviting you on a journey through the BLR archive, with stories, poems, photos, and more. This week features Issue 6 highlights from from authors Suzanne McConnell, Charles Barber, and Halvard Johnson. More: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Celebrating Valentine's Day by honoring all the ways we love and care for one another. 💕
You can find "Valentine" by Chelsea Krieg in BLR Issue 30. (And huge congratulations to Chelsea, whose debut poetry collection, Everything is Water, will be published by TRP this spring 🎉)
We're celebrating our 25th anniversary with a look back through the BLR archive. This week includes highlights from Issue 5 - for more, check out our full issue blog post ✍️ blreview.org/issue-highli...
Throughout our anniversary year 🎉, we're inviting you on a journey through the BLR archive, with stories, poems, photos, and more. This week features Issue 5 highlights from from authors Allison Amend, Toni Mirosevich, and Meg Kearney. 📖 Learn more: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Mark your calendars! On 2/22 @writersread.bsky.social is teaming up with @blreview.bsky.social at @citywinery.bsky.social for a 1 pm show on illness & recovery. I'm so proud to be in the cast, reading my story, "Three Ways of Looking at a Diagnosis." To buy tix, click here:
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Writers! 📣 BLR recently finished its 3-week writing workshop, and we are thinking about future programs. What topics interest you?
#writingcommunity
BLR Issue 4 highlights - for more, check out our full issue blog post 📝 blreview.org/issue-highli...
Throughout our anniversary year 🎉, BLR is excited to revisit a selection of pieces from our issues. This week features highlights from Issue 4, which was also home to early fiction by Abraham Verghese and poems by James Tate. 📖 Learn more: blreview.org/issue-highli...
In her powerful essay “Exene,” Kate Broad describes how a cat rescued by her estranged brother becomes her last link to him after he takes his own life. Kate shared an excerpt from her essay at our reading for Issue 49, on the theme of Animalia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Iz...
Throughout our anniversary year 🎉, BLR is excited to revisit a selection of pieces from our issues. This week features highlights from Issue 3, which was also home to poems by Julia Alvarez, Cortney Davis, Rick Moody, and more. 📖 Learn more: blreview.org/news/recent-...
To celebrate our 25th anniversary 🎉, BLR is excited to share highlights from our issues all year long. This week features a story, poem, and essay from our second issue, which also included two previously unpublished poems by Charles Bukowski.
Explore more: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Reviving #flashbackfriday for a moment! As our 25th anniversary year kicks off, we've been taking a walk down memory lane -- here is BLR's inaugural team, fresh off learning how to publish a literary journal, in 2001. 📖
Brave the cold on Feb. 22 and join us for an afternoon storytelling event! In collaboration with Writers Read, we'll have an amazing group of writers reading their 5 minute true-life stories about heal, illness, and healing.
Feb. 22, 1 p.m., @CityWineryNYC
tickets.citywinery.com/event/writer...
For our 25th anniversary, we're taking a journey through the BLR archive. Here, founding publisher Martin J. Blaser and editor-in-chief Danielle Ofri welcome the crowd to BLR's first reading in 2001. 📷
Issue 1 highlight: “How Air Moves” by Leslie Roberts #nonfiction
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Issue 1 highlight: “Cousin Esther Goes to Chicago” by Cori Baill #fiction
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Issue 1 highlight: “Peeled Grapes” by Sharon Olds
#poetry
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To celebrate our 25th anniversary 🎉, BLR is excited to revisit a selection of pieces from past issues. This week we're taking a look back our inaugural issue. 🧵
For more, check out our full issue blog post 📝 blreview.org/issue-highli...
Delight Chinenye Ejiaka shares a moving, relatable story about beauty standards in our live storytelling event, which you can now watch online! 🙌
Enjoy stories about the complex relationship between our bodies and society, all inspired by BLR's issue on Body Politic. 🎤 youtu.be/jGkE4h2YaUw?...
We are thrilled to be highlighted in @pw.org with an article—"The Literature of Illness, Healing"—that chronicles BLR's beginnings and evolution over the past 25 years. 📖
What a way to start our anniversary year! You can read the full article here: www.pw.org/content/the_...
