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BLR's 25th Anniversary Issue is here! 🎉 And to celebrate it, we're welcoming authors from the issue for a live reading. 📖 Join us online on Thurs, 10/22, for an evening of new poems, stories, & essays, plus the joy of community & connection. RSVP (it's free!): www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—revisits past BLR Prizewinners, with more to explore in our weekly blog post. Plus, the colorful WWII-inspired cover has a story of its own. 🎨 blreview.org/issue-highli...
It's an exciting time to be part of the BLR community, with new releases & milestones from our authors. 🎉 A few highlights are shown here, plus there’s even more in our recent roundup: tinyurl.com/blrauthornews
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—is entitled "A Good Life" & showcases poetry & prose that looks deeply at the joys & complications of our individual worlds. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—revisits the 2019 BLR Prizewinners, with more to explore in our weekly blog post. Plus, the most spring-like cover 🌸 in BLR's history! blreview.org/issue-highli...
Ready to welcome your fall days with a great new read? 📖 🎉 Pre-order your copy of BLR's upcoming 25th anniversary issue! In addition to a stellar mix of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, check out all the extras in this special expanded issue! blreview.org/product/blr-...
Why does medicine need creativity? Join BLR’s upcoming online workshop to discover how art and literature can be accessible guides for navigating the often unsettling waters of illness, caregiving, and healing. (Sept. 24 @ 7pm, online, $25) www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
"Today marks 25 years since the devastating 9/11 attacks. Even after all these years, it still feels impossible to wrap one’s mind around the enormity...of that day," writes BLR editor Danielle Ofri. When ordinary words fail, turning to literature & art can help. blreview.org/blog/remembe...
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—is entitled "Dis/Placement" and showcases pieces that conjure the geographical and emotional sense of belonging elsewhere. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
We are thrilled to share that BLR Board Member (and author) Perri Klass will receive the 2026 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community from @nationalbook.bsky.social Read about her impact & join us in congratulating Perri! 📚🩺🫶 www.nationalbook.org/national-boo...
National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Perri Klass
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, today announced pediatrician, writer, and National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Perri Klass, MD, as the recipient of the ...
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It's been a thrill to look back through our issues this year, as part of our 25th anniversary 🎉 This week, we're sharing Issue 34. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Congrats to Suzanne McConnell on the publication of her story collection, IF YOU THINK YOUR HEART CAN TAKE IT. (Great title!) 🎉 Suzanne was not only BLR's longtime fiction editor but a BLR author, with her story “High Water Mark” appearing in Issue 6. bookshop.org/a/87413/9781...
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—focuses on finding home in family and connections, with stories, essays, and poems that dive into this universal theme. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Writers, get ready! ✒️ Starting Tuesday, September 1, we will be accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for general submissions, as well as our next theme issue on Migrations. Learn more: blreview.org/submit/ #literarymagazine #literaryjournal #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #callforsubmissions
It's always a pleasure for our editors to meet a BLR author, but even more special when it's unexpected! This past week, BLR fiction editor @dwycheng.bsky.social met poet Judith Fox at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. ✨️ Judith's poetry has appeared in several issues of BLR, most recently #50.
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—includes writings that showcase the nuances of relationships as they are impacted by illness. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—focuses on the art of memory, with stories, essays & poems that dive into this timeless theme. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Though we're not ready to let summer go just yet, we are looking ahead to September 🍂 and the incredible slate of creative & community-focused events BLR has coming up. We hope you'll be inspired to join us! Learn more: blreview.org/blog/#events
This week's featured issue — part of our 25th anniversary lookback— marks a chapter closing on BLR's archival cover photos, plus includes a tribute to Oliver Sacks, the noted author & physician (& longtime BLR friend). Read a highlighted story, poem, & essay, plus more: blreview.org/issue-highli...
This week's featured issue — part of our 25th anniversary lookback— marks a chapter closing on BLR's archival cover photos, plus includes a tribute to Oliver Sacks, the noted author & physician (& longtime BLR friend). Read a highlighted story, poem, & essay, plus more: blreview.org/issue-highli...
At BLR, we believe that dreams are made of... our supporters! 🌟 Many of you have been with us from the start. Like Dr. Richard Bronson, a physician & poet, who has been a BLR subscriber since Issue 1 in 2001! Have a photo of you w/ your favorite issue? We invite you to email it to info@blreview.org.
This week's featured issue — part of our 25th anniversary lookback— focuses on the ramifications of war, with stories, essays, and poems that trace war's reach far beyond the battlefield. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
Mark your calendar to join us for poetry in the park! Hear BLR editor Danielle Ofri & poet Thomas Dooley read poems on healing in this beloved series hosted by past BLR poetry editor, Jason Schneiderman. 🔹 Free, open to all blreview.org/events/celeb...
This week's featured issue of BLR "offers a literary jaunt through unusual locales and intriguing set-ups," editor Danielle Ofri notes in her foreword. Thanks for joining us on our jaunt through the BLR archive as part of our 25th anniversary celebration! 🎉 blreview.org/issue-highli...
This week's featured issue — part of our 25th anniv lookback— explores our fragile environment, with pieces that convey the power of our surroundings & their impact on our lives & health. Enjoy three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: blreview.org/issue-highli...
How can creativity help us make sense of medicine’s complexities? Join BLR for an engaging class that explores how art and literature can be guides for navigating the unsettling waters of illness, caregiving, and healing. 🗓️ Sept. 24, 7 p.m. ET 💻 Online 🔷 $25 www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
This week's issue highlight looks back at past contest winners, including a story that went on to win a Pushcart Prize (and that might also take the prize for most unique title!): "Death Defiant Bomba or What to Wear When Your Boo Gets Cancer" by Lilliam Rivera. blreview.org/issue-highli...
Missed our latest BookTalk with award-winning author Morgan Talty? Watch it now! 📚️ In this wide-ranging conversation, Morgan talks with BLR editors Danielle Ofri & Doris W. Cheng about his novel FIRE EXIT, narrative voice, identity, and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuaj...
This week's featured issue — part of our 25th anniversary lookback— focuses on the rich perspective of literature rooted in multiculturalism. Enjoy three highlights from Issue 25, with more to explore in our weekly blog post that journeys through the BLR archive: blreview.org/issue-highli...
