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BLR Writing Workshops: The Literary Rx
BLR’s writing workshop – The Literary Rx: Using Writing to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare – is here! This special three-part series includes a panel conversation about writing in healthcare (open to the public) and…
Body Politic: Live on Stage!
Six storytellers shared their interpretations of Body Politic, BLR’s theme this year, to a rapt audience in the theater, as well as an even wider audience via livestream.
2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
BLR is delighted to announce our 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
2025 BLR Prize Winners
Meet the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2025 BLR Literary Prizes.
Body Politic: An Evening of Live Storytelling
Join BLR for a night of intimate and compelling live stories about the complex relationship between our bodies and society. Six storytellers take to the stage to perform their inspiring personal stories for a live…
Narrative Arc 2024: The Journey From Writer to Reader
Have you ever wondered how your favorite authors assemble their thoughts onto the page and bring them to you? Join Bellevue Literary Review for Narrative Arc 2024: The Journey from Writer to Reader, which will celebrate the…
BLR Fall 2024 Interviews and Readings
Watch our online reading celebrating the publication of BLR Issue 47, on the theme of ‘Body Politic.’ Featuring readings by Laura LeMoon, Mehr-Afarin Kohan, and Sean Sam. With interviews by BLR editors Danielle Ofri, Alanna Weissman, and Saleem Hue Penny.
Reading the Body: Dance and Film Premiere on Body Politic
The BLR community and The Paige Fraser Foundation had a fantastic time at the premiere of our newest dance/poetry film, Reading the Body: Body Politic, at The New York Academy of Medicine. Thank you to…
BLR Spring 2024 Reading: Winning Words
Meet the writers and editors behind BLR’s Issue 46, our latest contest issue featuring the winners of the 2024 BLR Prizes. Featuring readings by Shastri Akella, Misty Kiwak Jacobs, and Amy Rothschild With interviews by BLR editors Doris W. Cheng,…
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2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees
BLR is delighted to announce our 2024 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
2025 BLR Prize Winners
Meet the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2025 BLR Literary Prizes.
Narrative Arc 2024: The Journey From Writer to Reader
Have you ever wondered how your favorite authors assemble their thoughts onto the page and bring them to you? Join Bellevue Literary Review for Narrative Arc 2024: The Journey from Writer to Reader, which will celebrate the unique relationship between the writers who bring words to the page and the readers who receive them. This online event takes…
BLR Spring 2024 Reading: Winning Words
Meet the writers and editors behind BLR’s Issue 46, our latest contest issue featuring the winners of the 2024 BLR Prizes. Featuring readings by Shastri Akella, Misty Kiwak Jacobs, and Amy Rothschild With interviews by BLR editors Doris W. Cheng, Danielle Ofri, and Saleem Hue Penny Plus additional poetry by William Klein, Siobhan McKenna, and Carolene Kurien Online, Thursday, May 23 at…
BLR Studio Visit: An Evening of Art and Stories
Join BLR and L’Space Gallery to celebrate the launch of our latest issue and its cover artist, Nicole Cohen. Featuring readings by Purvi Shah and Siobhan McKenna, and the premiere of Nicole Cohen’s Contemporary Art Books & New York Library video projection. In-person, Thursday, April 4th at 6:00 pm ET L’Space Gallery524 W 19th StNew York,…
2025 BLR Literary Prizes
Submit your best poetry, fiction and nonfiction from March 1 to July 1. $1000 prize.
2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees
BLR is delighted to announce our 2023 Pushcart Prize Nominees.
2024 BLR Prize Winners
Meet the Winners and Honorable Mentions of the 2024 BLR Literary Prizes.
Theme Issue on The Body Politic
From Sept 1 to Dec 31, we are accepting submissions for a special theme issue on Recovery.
2024 BLR Literary Prizes
Submit your best poetry, fiction and nonfiction from March 1 to July 15. $1000 prize.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
WATCH OUR PAST EVENTS
BLR FALL READING – ISSUE 47
Thursday, October 17 at 7 pm | Online
Watch our fall online reading featuring the authors of our 47th issue on the theme of ‘Body Politic.’ Featuring authors Laura LeMoon, Sean Sam, and Mehr-Afarin Kohan, and interviews by BLR editors Alanna Weismann, Saleem Hue Penny, and Danielle Ofri.
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A BLR BENEFIT – NARRATIVE ARC: THE JOURNEY FROM WRITER TO READER
Join Bellevue Literary Review for Narrative Arc: The Journey from Writer to Reader, celebrating the unique relationship between the writers who bring words to the page and the readers who receive them.
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TAKING CARE: AN EVENING OF LIVE STORYTELLING
An evening of live storytelling. Intimate and compelling live stories presented on stage, about the universal experience of caregiving. Live music from pianist Kwami T. Coleman. A collaboration with The Nocturnists.
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BLR FALL READING: THE ART OF TAKING CARE
An online event featuring authors Eric Raymond, Lucia Owen, and Stephanie Isan, featured in BLR‘s special issue on ‘Taking Care,” and editors Ronna Wineberg, Doris W. Cheng, Ronna Wineberg, and Danielle Ofri. Additional appearances by caregivers Sheila Johnson, Char S., and Melissa A. Martin. Presented in collaboration with AARP.
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THE CENTER FOR FICTION AND BLR PRESENT JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS ON NIGHT WATCH WITH DANIELLE OFRI
The Center for Fiction and Bellevue Literary Review celebrate Jayne Anne Phillips’s (Black Tickets, Machine Dreams) latest novel Night Watch, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.
— Read interviews with BLR authors, editors, readers, and more. —
Interview: Lara Palmqvist
I saw how changing the stories we live by can in fact change our perceptions of the world. The very idea that no story is final—be it the story of one’s own self, or the story of a nation—is ultimately something in which I find great hope.
Interview: Sabah Parsa
Humor is the easiest for me to write in any piece, fiction or nonfiction.
Interview: Jack Coulehan
Clinical care provides the subject matter for many of my poems, and some of the themes I explore in them – for example, empathy, compassion, uncertainty, loss, anger, and guilt – have driven a process of self-discovery that I think has made me a better doctor.
Interview: Meredith Talusan
Fiction allows me to further portray realities from perspectives outside the majority, not just at the level of my lived experience but in terms of a broad range of possible trans, BIPOC, immigrant, and disabled experiences.
Interview: Manini Nayar
I rarely know how a story ends until I get there. A story has its own life, and I am immersed in it and on the margins at the same time, both participant and recorder.
20th Anniversary Editorial Roundtable
In honor of BLR’s 20th anniversary, we’ve invited editors past and present to offer reflections on the BLR’s founding and its evolution over two decades of publishing.
Interview: Julia Levine
I have loved the natural world since I was a small child and it is my inability to see it accurately that pains me.
Interview: Nina Adel
Almost all of my work takes place in the realm of the hybrid… I myself am just a regular person and artist who finds rules very difficult to adhere to.
Interview: Yalitza Ferreras
English has now become my primary language, although I experience it as a syllabic language, which I attribute to my brain being wired for Spanish.
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- fiction
- nonfiction
- poetry
Death Defiant Bomba or What To Wear When Your Boo Gets Cancer
You’ll wear five-inch black pumps because they make that annoying noise that alerts everyone everywhere in the whole wide world that you’re arriving. continue reading
Do I Look Sick To You? (Notes on How to Make Love to a Cancer Patient)
At first you don’t. You hold back. Finally she says, “What, you’re afraid I’ll break? You’re afraid it’s contagious?” continue reading
71 Grams
You buy entirely too much at the store, but no matter—you will be on this diet for a while. At home, you unload each item… continue reading
Harvest Moon
He’d looked perfect – nothing deformed or discolored, no hair out of place, both shoelaces tied. The life had been shaken out of him. continue reading
Refugere
Any place a place of refuge. Any place, as long as it’s not the place you’ve left. Live anywhere, but always leave the back door… continue reading
Irrigation
we steal water when we make rain, the way / everything I have is from somewhere else, / from someone else, continue reading
Price Tag
Late June fields greening under a mottled sky. An oriole slashes orange against a shingled Cape Cod. continue reading
Papa (Bi-Polar) Bear
You didn’t come to bed until morning/ You opened and closed doors all night/ while I slept in the ambient soot continue reading
There's still time to RSVP for tonight's Narrative Arc event, featuring in-depth conversations between BLR authors & readers.📖 This free online event starts at 7pm ET (psst, if you can't make it, RSVP anyway & we'll send you the link to watch afterwards!) https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellevueliteraryreview/1424266
Join us Thursday, 12/5 for Narrative Arc. We'll enjoy:
- Interviews with three BLR authors, led by readers
- Insights on the BLR publication process
- Commentary from BLR editors and reviewers
This FREE online event is Thursday, 12/5 at 7pm ET.
RSVP: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/bellevueliteraryreview/1424266