Bellevue Literary Review

Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, has been witness to nearly 270 years of human drama. In this tradition we have created the Bellevue Literary Review, a forum for illuminating humanity and human experience. BLR is published by the Department of Medicine at New York University. We invite submissions of previously unpublished works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that touch upon relationships to the human body, illness, health and healing. We encourage creative interpretation of these themes.

"No human thing is more universal than illness, in all its permutations, and no literary publication holds more credibility on the subject than The Bellevue Literary Review." New Pages.com Read the full review.

Hot off the Press!

2009 BLR Literary Prize is now accepting submissions: Judged by Natalie Angier, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosellen Brown. Deadline Aug 1, 2008.
The Best of the BLR published by the Bellevue Literary Press in January 2008. Anthology is accompanied by a free BLR Curriculum for teaching.
Abilities and Disabilities: The Range of Human Function: Deadline has passed. This special issue on disability will be available in September 2008.

The BLR gratefully acknowledges
the New York State Council on the Arts,
the New York Council for the Humanities,
the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses,
the Vilcek Foundation, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation,
the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation,
the Goldenberg Family, and the Magliocco Family
for their generous support.