Bellingham Review’s first online issue is now available. Check out the “Current Issue” portion of the site for this special edition featuring flash fiction, short essays, prose poetry, and other short forms.

Australian author Kent MacCarter shared with us an interview with the late poet Jack Myers, discussing Richard Hugo, the celebrated Northwestern poet and professor. Read the full discussion of Hugo, regionalism, influence, and other significant topics in poetics here.

Announcing the 2011 contest winners:

The Bellingham Review is pleased to announce:

Winners of the 2011 Literary Contests

Announcing the judges for the 2012 contests:

2012 Contest Judges:

The 49th Parallel Award: Linda Bierds

The Annie Dillard Award: Sheila Bender

The Tobias Wolff Award: Robin Hemley

Our Mission

Literature of palpable quality: poems, stories, and essays so beguiling they invite us to touch their essence. The Bellingham Review hungers for a kind of writing that nudges the limits of form, or executes traditional forms exquisitely.

 

Getting Noticed!

New Pages Blog on the Spring 2011 Issue

How could we not expect excellence from this fine journal out of Western Washington University? The poetry in this issue is plentiful and masterful. (read more…)

NewPages Blog on the Spring 2009 Issue

Aimee Nezhukumatahil, 49th Parallel Poetry Award judge, is not exaggerating when she calls the prize-winning poem “gorgeous” and “breathtaking.” Kaveh Bassiri’s “Invention of God” is divine. (read more…)

NewPages Blog on the Spring 2008 Issue

Bellingham Review Adapts (read more…)

Testimonial from Rae Gouirand

“Every issue of the Bellingham Review offers writing that is not just of palpable quality, but of true interest. I can’t count the number of BR essays I have ended up teaching in my creative nonfiction workshop over the last five years – they inspire introspection of the most enduring variety, and feed the efforts and investments of all my students. I am never surprised by how much I learn reading it – just grateful, both as a teacher and as a writer.”