''Baltimore Review'' is an American

literary magazine A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letter ...

founded in 1996.Getting the Word Out? Baltimore City Paper, July 4, 2001 It publishes

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poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

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, interviews, and items of interest to those interested in creative writing. The ''Baltimore Review'', a literary journal of poetry and fiction, was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl as a publication of the Baltimore Writers Alliance. The journal grew to become a nationally distributed journal, and later became an independent nonprofit organization. Susan Muaddi Darraj then led the journal from 2003 to 2010, expanding contributions to include creative nonfiction and interviews. In 2011, Barbara Westwood Diehl resumed leadership of the journal and now serves as senior editor with Kathleen Hellen. The ''Baltimore Review'' became a Web-based journal in 2011, and the first Web issue was launched in February 2012. Web-published work would be collected in print issues. Work that first appeared in the ''Baltimore Review'' has been shortlisted for the

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and been noted in Best American Short Stories and other anthologies.

Notable contributors

* Jacob Appel * Deborah Mitchell Ashburn * Ned Balbo *Laura van den Berg *

Andrei Codrescu Andrei Codrescu (; born December 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the winner of the Peabody Award for his film ''Road Scholar'' and the Ovid Prize for p ...

Michael Glaser Michael S. Glaser (born Michael Schmidt Glaser; 1943) is an American poet and educator who served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 2004 to 2009. He is also an advocate for women's rights and health, affordable housing, fatherhood, and writing an ...

* Tom Glenn * Sharon Goldner * Melissa S. Hardin * Reginald Harris * Rosemary Harty * Jamie Holland * Adriana Husta *

Michael Kimball Michael Kimball (born February 1, 1967) is a novelist from the United States. Life and career Michael Kimball was born February 1, 1967, in Lansing, Michigan. He studied at List of Michigan State University people, Michigan State University and ...

* Dorianne Laux *

Jen Michalski Jen Michalski (born 1972) is an American fiction author and novelist. Biography She received her BA in Language and Literature from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 1994 and an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University in 1999. She ha ...

* Karen T. Miller * Deirdra McAfee * Meg Mullins * Jay O'Callahan * Michael Salcman * Thomas Stringer * Bill Valentine *

Eric D. Goodman The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

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* Barbara Westwood Diehl - Founding and Managing Editor * Dean Bartoli Smith * Elise Burke * Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson * Rick Connor * Cody Ernst * Benjamin Goldberg * Ann Eichler Kolakowski * Amanda Fiore * Jonathan Green * Julia Heney * Jennifer Holden Ward * Lisa Lance * Holly Morse-Ellington * Bobbi Nicotera * Lalita Noronha * Michael Salcman * Seth Sawyers * Ashley Scurto * Holly Sneeringer * Lynn Stansbury * Matt Diehl - Webmaster

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Notable contributors

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