The ''Bellingham Review'' is an American
literary magazine published by
Western Washington University
Western Washington University (WWU or Western) is a public university in Bellingham, Washington. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, succeeding a pri ...
. The magazine was established in 1977 by the
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
s
Knute Skinner and
Peter Nicoletta.
[San Francisco Chronicle, October 1, 2008] ''The Bellingham Review'' includes
fiction,
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 ...
, and
creative non-fiction
Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contra ...
. The current
editor is writer Jane Wong.
[https://bhreview.org/staff-information/jane-wong/] Work that has appeared in the ''Bellingham Review'' has been reprinted in ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'' and ''
The Best American Poetry
''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.
Background
The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...
''.
Notable contributors include:
Micah Nathan
Micah Nathan is an American author of novels, short fiction, essays, and video games. His debut novel, '' Gods of Aberdeen'', was published in 2005 by Simon & Schuster to critical acclaim, and his second novel, ''Losing Graceland'', published by ...
,
Jenna Blum
Jenna Blum (born c. 1970) is an American writer who has written three novels, ''Those Who Save Us'', ''The Stormchasers'', and ''The Lost Family'' .Nancy Harris, The Boston Globe, 2014 Accessed Feb. 2, 2014 In 2013, she was selected by the ''Mode ...
,
Anne Panning,
Sheila Bender, and
Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is a Native American writer, poet, and professor of English at Washington and Lee University. Her father, Alfred Edward Robles Miranda is from the Esselen and Chumash people, native to the Santa Barbara/Santa Ynez/Monterey, Ca ...
.
Awards
The magazine yearly awards "The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction" and "The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction". The awards were established by novelist
Robin Hemley, a former ''Bellingham Review'' editor.
Recent Winners (Nonfiction):
*2015 - Leigh Claire Schmidli
["Announcing the Winners of The Bellingham Review's 2015 Literary Contests," Bellingham Review, June 11, 2015]
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*2010 - Angela Tung
*2009 - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
*2008 - Lauren Smith Traore
*2007 - Megan Kruse
*2006 - Madeline Sonik
*2005 - Amy Alznauer
*2004 - Bonnie Rough
*2003 - Jill Sisson Quinn
*2002 - Ander Monson
*2001 - Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Recent Winners (Fiction):
*2015 - Eric Roe[
*2010 - Jacob M. Appel
*2009 - Irene Keliher
*2008 - Edward O’Connell
*2007 - Natalie Diaz
*2006 - Mark Wisniewski
*2005 - Vicky Mlyniec
*2004 - Bernadette Smyth
*2003 - Natalie Serber
*2002 - Morgan McDermott
*2001 - John Tait
]
See also
* List of literary magazines
References
External links
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