Writing the Body, part of BLR’s Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare series, brings together four best-selling authors whose work confronts illness as it is lived in the body. /// continue reading
BLR 25th Anniversary
In 2026, Bellevue Literary Review will celebrate its 25th anniversary. In celebration of this milestone, BLR will present live and online events throughout the year.
BLR & Writers Read Present Body Language: True Stories of Illness, Recovery, and Discovery
City Winery, Writers Read & Bellevue Literary Review present Body Language: True Stories of Illness, Recovery, and Discovery live on Sunday, February 22nd, at 1:00 PM. /// continue reading
Writing the Body: Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare
Writing the Body, part of BLR’s Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare series, brings together four best-selling authors whose work confronts illness as it is lived in the body. /// continue reading
Upcoming Events and Programming
An expanded 25th anniversary edition of Bellevue Literary Review
Writing Illness onto the Page, a 3-week writing workshop in January/February. Small-group workshops will be led by BLR editors, with guided exercises and generative prompts, plus discussions on craft, style, and the practicalities of publication.
BLR Writing Studio, a new program to encourage a year-round community of writers at all levels
Art in Medicine: A Creative Space for Healthcare Trainees, a new program in narrative medicine for healthcare trainees with a slightly more academic bent (tagline: Where emerging clinicians connect through art and story). This will be a free full-year program, each year, with a new cohort of trainees from all fields in healthcare.
BLR Ambassadors Program, a new program that offers a more informal community for students interested in learning about BLR as well as how medical humanities can weave into healthcare professions
BLR Book Club, a new program which will be an in-depth book conversation over several weeks, culminating in an online event with the author
Body Language: True Stories of Illness, Recovery, and Discovery, a collaboration with Writers Read. Writers will tell 650-word medical stories in a live event (Sunday, February 22, 2026, 1pm ET, at City Winery, NYC)
Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare: Writing the Body, Featuring Meghan O’Rourke, Porochista Khakpour, Rebekah Taussig, and Danielle Ofri. March 26, 2026 at 7 pm ET (online)
Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare: Mapping the Mind. Featuring Susannah Cahalan, Sarah LaBrie, Damon Tweedy, and Danielle Ofri. April 16 at 7 pm ET (online).
BLR Book Salon with Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation on May 9 at 7 pm ET (Upper West Side)
Cocktails & Conversation on September 26, 2026, 5:30-7:30 pm, honoring Jerome Lowenstein and supporting BLR’s Art in Medicine program (Brooklyn Heights)