Mission Statement
Bellevue Literary Review is a literary arts organization that uses storytelling and poetry to deepen understanding of health, illness, and healing through its award-winning literary journal, education, and dynamic public programming—connecting a community of readers, writers, patients, clinicians, and caregivers through shared stories.
Vision
Bellevue Literary Review envisions a culture in which literature and art are recognized as essential to medical care and healing—where patients, clinicians, writers, and readers come together to bear witness to the body, vulnerability, suffering, and resilience, and where shared stories and poetry foster empathy, ethical reflection, and more humane ways of caring for one another.
The BLR journal is independently published. Since 2001, it has published two volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction annually. The journal is available in print and digital editions.
The first literary journal to arise from a medical setting, BLR is now an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.