It is so exciting to share BLR's history and 25th anniversary with PBS @NewsHour. We are looking forward to the next 25 years!! Bellevue Literary Review celebrates 25 years of stories on illness and recovery. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Bellevue Literary Review celebrates 25 years of stories on illness and recovery

Three doctors, two poets and a fiction writer walk into a windowless hospital conference room. Not the start of a joke, but of a prestigious journal, “Bellevue Literary Review”, now celebrating its…

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@BLReview is featured on PBS @NewsHour, exploring our unlikely origin story and how we're still thriving after 25 years, creating of an unmatched community of readers, writers, patients, caregivers, and clinicians. Check it out! danielleofri.com/pbs-newshour...

PBS NewsHour features 25 Years of BLR

Bellevue Literary Review is featured on the esteemed PBS NewsHour. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown joined us to learn about BLR ‘s unlikely origin story and how it is still thriving a…

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Opinion | Why A.I. Will Never Replace Your Doctor Sharing my experience of why it still matters that we have "real life" doctors and nurses on dutyhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/opinion/ai-doctor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.WVlU.9U_d0fJL7nAl&smid=url-share

“There’s an ocean of distance between the ‘patient’ that A.I. is analyzing and the patient that the human doctor or nurse is assessing,” writes Dr. Danielle Ofri.

Opinion | Why A.I. Will Never Replace Your Doctor

I use A.I. all the time to help me diagnose and treat my patients. I also know where it falls short.

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Thank you, @Medscape for highlighting so many medical folks who are writing. At Bellevue Literary Review, we've been at it for 25 years, and are looking forward to the next 25! If you haven't read BLR, check out www.BLReview.org

@blreview.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"In moments of vulnerability, people turn to the arts." Thrilled to see this new Medscape article that spotlights BLR, The Intima, and why creative writing matters in healthcare. 🩺🖊️ www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

I'm so excited for this conversation on Thursday. Three incredible writers, live, online. And it's #free!

@blreview.bsky.social · 4mo ago

You're invited! 🎉 Join BLR this Thurs, April 16, for Mapping the Mind, a dynamic live conversation with Susannah Cahalan, Sarah LaBrie, Damon Tweedy, and BLR editor Danielle Ofri about writing the inner life. www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

I'm so excited for this event, and I hope you'll join us. It should be an amazing conversation....and it's free! #books #writing #medical #voices

@blreview.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Still time to RSVP for “Writing the Body,” coming up on Thursday, March 26! 🗓️ Don't miss this live online conversation with writers Porochista Khakpour, Meghan O'Rourke, Rebekah Taussig, and BLR editor Danielle Ofri. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

Jerry Lowenstein, founding nonfiction editor of @blreview, is honored with an obituary in the NY Times. He is missed by so many, but his spirit lives on in the innumerable doctors he trained, authors he edited and colleagues he inspired. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...

Jerome Lowenstein, 92, Dies; Teaching Doctor With a Literary Sideline

When not guiding students in a compassionate approach to patient care, he led a tiny publishing imprint that put out a much-rejected debut novel that won a surprise Pulitzer Prize.

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Fiction: Shannon Perri (winner) and May Lee-Yang (honorable mention) You can read these winning works in BLR Issue 50, coming this spring! 📖 Many thanks to our judges, to our editors, and to the many writers whose work we had the privilege of reviewing. 🙏

Nonfiction: Won Lee (winner) and Ardis Garcia (honorable mention)

Ready for the big news? We are excited to congratulate our BLR prizewinners, selected by judges Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Chung, and Joan Silber. 🎉 Poetry: Dara Laine (winner) and Miranda Saake (honorable mention)

Are you a trainee in #medicine, #nursing, or any other #healthcare field? Need something more creative in your life? Check out @Blreview's new Art in Medicine program! Explore creative expression & narrative medicine, and find a welcoming community. Applications open. blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...

BLR Art in Medicine – Bellevue Literary Review

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Join us tonight as we herd together the authors from BLR's Animalia issue. It'll be the cat's meow! 7 pm, Free

@blreview.bsky.social · 10mo ago

BLR Issue 49 on Animalia is here! And to celebrate, we're trying out an exciting new format for our fall reading. 📖 Join us Thursday, October 23 online for a LIVE event. We'll hear from Animalia authors as they share their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 🦉 www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

Join me on 9/25 for this FREE event. I'll interview three of my favorite medical writers, live, online. Ask your questions about how to write illness onto the page. #writingcommunity #doctor #nurse #patient

@blreview.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Meet Sandeep and the rest of our panelists— @ranaawdish.bsky.social Theresa Brown, and @danielleofri.bsky.social —on September 25th. Bring your questions! Details: 🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT ✨Free and open to the public. buytickets.at/bellevuelite...

My @NYTimes oped: RFK Jr. can't outright ban vaccines, so he's tackling vaccination infrastructure instead. This week's meeting of the vaccine advisory council will likely be an exercise in political theater, not scientific debate. #publichealth #vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | Kennedy Says He Won’t Take Away Vaccines. Don’t Believe Him.

A meeting of a C.D.C. advisory committee could restrict vaccine access.

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Today's Weekly Read is "Letter to a Dead Mother" by Martha Silano, from Issue 44. Our editors were saddened to learn that Martha passed away this past May, a great loss to the literary community. ❤️‍🩹 Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...

It’s hard to convey how grieved my colleagues and I feel by the evisceration of CDC, NIH et al. It’s like a death in the family, except that it’s a mass-casualty situation. Our govt seems determined to handicap your MD/RN's ability to care for you. tinyurl.com/4uey6sae

Opinion | What Happens When Doctors Can’t Trust the Government? (Gift Article)

Federal public health institutions were revered by the medical community. That’s rapidly changing.

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Hey medical folks--working on an article about how it feels to practice medicine when maybe you can't quite trust the "new versions" of the CDC, FDA, and vaccine advisory board. Send me an email with your thoughts and experiences. Anonymous okay. danielleofri.com/contact/

Join me on June 11 to learn about a fabulous new book and a wonderful writer. If you've loved Oliver Sacks, you'll be excited to meet Pria Anand. @oliversacks.bsky.social

@blreview.bsky.social · last yr.

You're Invited: BLR BookTalk on "The Mind Electric"! 🧠 Our next BookTalk features Pria Anand, BLR author and neurologist, who just published her first book, The Mind Electric. 🗓️Details: Online, June 11 at 7pm EDT RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/belle... @danielleofri.bsky.social

I love BLR's new Weekly Reads--bringing back old favorites and connecting new readers with great poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. This early story by Celeste Ng is a real treasure. @pronounced-ing.bsky.social #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

@blreview.bsky.social · last yr.

BLR is excited to bring you Weekly Reads! Each week, we'll highlight a BLR story, poem, or essay. 📧Sign up for our newsletter to get more info about that week's pick! blreview.org/newsletter/ Today's read is "Girls, At Play" by @pronounced-ing.bsky.social: blreview.org/fiction/girl...

Should doctors be writing about patients at all? Should protected information shared in confidence, in the setting of illness, with a high-stakes power differential, be fodder for writing—no matter how compelling?

Why Do Doctors Write?

For physicians, curiosity and care spill easily onto the page.

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. Why Do Doctors Write? Doctors write all day, every day—progress notes, consultations, assessments, referrals—a vast flow of utter dross. What I'm curious about--and what I'm trying to hash out in my article for The New Yorker--is why doctors take up literary writing. tinyurl.com/MD-writers

Why Do Doctors Write?

For physicians, curiosity and care spill easily onto the page.

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BLR is open for submissions. Now accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for the BLR Literary Prizes, as well as for general submission. Spring is coming and we are so excited to read what you've been working on! #WritingCommunity #poetrycommunity #writing

@blreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Get in your creative flow! Submissions open today for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on the themes of health, illness, and healing. 🖋️ We can't wait to read your work! Learn more and submit: blreview.org/submit/

Reading early works of favorite authors is such a treat. BLR has had the pleasure of publishing early fiction by Abraham Verghese, Celeste Ng, Kali Fajardo-Anstine and Leslie Jamison. BLR is having a flash sale of classic issues, so don't miss your chance!

@blreview.bsky.social · last yr.

Our Classic Issue Flash Sale is in full swing! 🎉📚 This week we're celebrating issues that feature works of BLR authors who've become best-selling authors. Until March 31st, Classic Issues are $5 and BOGO! Use code flash5 at checkout: blreview.org/store/

BLR editor-in-chief @danielleofri.bsky.social met up with physician and bestselling author Theresa Brown (who is one of our reviewers!) at Theresa's talk in NYC, where the panel discussed how they honor nursing in their work. Copies of Issue 47 even tagged along! 😊

The Trump administration is signaling its contempt for evidence-based science and its disregard for human health and life. But the path forward is clear... #Science #Medicine #PatientCare www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

@altcdc.bsky.social I'm working on an article about saving our scientific data. I would appreciate any leads on folks/orgs who are doing this work. Feel free to DM me, or email me via my website #sciencedata #healthdata #cdc #data

Well said, Steve Woolf: "We must draw the line when the science is clear that a policy will increase the risk of disease, complications, or premature death." Contact your professional societies and institutions to protest policies that harm patients.

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Has anyone heard of any sites willing to post data/papers/info scrubbed from Federal websites? What about First Amendment implications? #healthcare #medicine #censorship apnews.com/article/trum...

Health data, entire pages wiped from federal websites as Trump officials target 'gender ideology'

A government memo aimed at implementing President Donald Trump’s order rolling back protections for transgender people has rippled through the federal government as agencies scramble to make changes t...

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🎉Thank you to the >500 people who've RSVPed so far. We just expanded our capacity, so there's plenty of room. You won't want to miss this very special event! It's a live conversation, so bring your ❓❓ to ask. www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...

@blreview.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hear from four best-selling medical writers about ethical dilemmas they face and how they use writing to dig deeper into considerations about these issues. 🩺✏️ Join us TOMORROW (online!) for The Book Doctors Are In! www.tickettailor.com/events/belle... @danielleofri.bsky.social @choo.bsky.social