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BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Forty-One Months" by Will McGrath, which won BLR's Prize for Nonfiction in 2014. 📖
Read the fully essay: blreview.org/nonfiction/f...
Read the fully essay: blreview.org/nonfiction/f...
November 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Forty-One Months" by Will McGrath, which won BLR's Prize for Nonfiction in 2014. 📖
Read the fully essay: blreview.org/nonfiction/f...
Read the fully essay: blreview.org/nonfiction/f...
We are thrilled to announce that BLR has received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for FY 2026. 🎉
Our deepest thanks to New York State Council on the Arts, @governor.ny.gov, and the NYS Legislature. 🙏
Thank you NYSCA for your continued advocacy for the arts and culture! 💕
Our deepest thanks to New York State Council on the Arts, @governor.ny.gov, and the NYS Legislature. 🙏
Thank you NYSCA for your continued advocacy for the arts and culture! 💕
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We are thrilled to announce that BLR has received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts for FY 2026. 🎉
Our deepest thanks to New York State Council on the Arts, @governor.ny.gov, and the NYS Legislature. 🙏
Thank you NYSCA for your continued advocacy for the arts and culture! 💕
Our deepest thanks to New York State Council on the Arts, @governor.ny.gov, and the NYS Legislature. 🙏
Thank you NYSCA for your continued advocacy for the arts and culture! 💕
The editors of BLR were saddened to hear of the death of Hal Sirowitz, who passed away on October 17, 2025, of complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Hal will be sorely missed. 🙏 Read some of his work: blreview.org/blog/remembe...
Hal will be sorely missed. 🙏 Read some of his work: blreview.org/blog/remembe...
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The editors of BLR were saddened to hear of the death of Hal Sirowitz, who passed away on October 17, 2025, of complications of Parkinson’s disease.
Hal will be sorely missed. 🙏 Read some of his work: blreview.org/blog/remembe...
Hal will be sorely missed. 🙏 Read some of his work: blreview.org/blog/remembe...
Ready for the big news? We are excited to congratulate our BLR prizewinners, selected by judges Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Chung, and Joan Silber. 🎉
Poetry: Dara Laine (winner) and Miranda Saake (honorable mention)
Poetry: Dara Laine (winner) and Miranda Saake (honorable mention)
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Ready for the big news? We are excited to congratulate our BLR prizewinners, selected by judges Patricia Spears Jones, Nicole Chung, and Joan Silber. 🎉
Poetry: Dara Laine (winner) and Miranda Saake (honorable mention)
Poetry: Dara Laine (winner) and Miranda Saake (honorable mention)
Calling all healthcare trainees! 📣 Want more creativity in your life?
BLR's new year-long program, Art in Medicine, is a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines invested in creativity and reflection.
📆 Apply by Dec 3, 2025, 5:00 pm ET
❗Space is limited
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BLR's new year-long program, Art in Medicine, is a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines invested in creativity and reflection.
📆 Apply by Dec 3, 2025, 5:00 pm ET
❗Space is limited
blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
November 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Calling all healthcare trainees! 📣 Want more creativity in your life?
BLR's new year-long program, Art in Medicine, is a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines invested in creativity and reflection.
📆 Apply by Dec 3, 2025, 5:00 pm ET
❗Space is limited
blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
BLR's new year-long program, Art in Medicine, is a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines invested in creativity and reflection.
📆 Apply by Dec 3, 2025, 5:00 pm ET
❗Space is limited
blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
BLR’s Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week’s read is “Bus” by Joan Leegant, which was awarded honorable mention in BLR‘s Goldenberg Prize for Fiction in 2013. 📖
Learn more about this pick:
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Learn more about this pick:
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November 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
BLR’s Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week’s read is “Bus” by Joan Leegant, which was awarded honorable mention in BLR‘s Goldenberg Prize for Fiction in 2013. 📖
Learn more about this pick:
blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick:
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We have exciting new publications from our BLR community. ✨
1. Samyak Shertok's debut poetry collection honors his fatherland and mother tongue.
2. Laura E. Garrard's poetry chapbook maps her journey through grief, surrender, and recovery after a diagnosis.
1. Samyak Shertok's debut poetry collection honors his fatherland and mother tongue.
2. Laura E. Garrard's poetry chapbook maps her journey through grief, surrender, and recovery after a diagnosis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We have exciting new publications from our BLR community. ✨
1. Samyak Shertok's debut poetry collection honors his fatherland and mother tongue.
2. Laura E. Garrard's poetry chapbook maps her journey through grief, surrender, and recovery after a diagnosis.
1. Samyak Shertok's debut poetry collection honors his fatherland and mother tongue.
2. Laura E. Garrard's poetry chapbook maps her journey through grief, surrender, and recovery after a diagnosis.
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Dementia Unit for John Glenn" by Amy Rothschild, which won BLR's John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry in 2024, selected by judge Melissa Lozada-Oliva. 📖
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blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Dementia Unit for John Glenn" by Amy Rothschild, which won BLR's John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry in 2024, selected by judge Melissa Lozada-Oliva. 📖
blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Are you a healthcare trainee wanting to incorporate creativity into your clinical life? 🩺✏️
BLR’s new Art in Medicine program offers a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines who are invested in creativity and reflection.
Learn more and apply: blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
BLR’s new Art in Medicine program offers a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines who are invested in creativity and reflection.
Learn more and apply: blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Are you a healthcare trainee wanting to incorporate creativity into your clinical life? 🩺✏️
BLR’s new Art in Medicine program offers a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines who are invested in creativity and reflection.
Learn more and apply: blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
BLR’s new Art in Medicine program offers a space for trainees across healthcare disciplines who are invested in creativity and reflection.
Learn more and apply: blreview.org/blr-art-in-m...
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Loved this conversation with other @nytimes.com bestselling medical writers. Thanks @blreview.bsky.social for bringing us together. The video is below.
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Crafting a Story of Illness: Conversations on Creative Writing in Healthcare
YouTube video by Bellevue Literary Review
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October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Loved this conversation with other @nytimes.com bestselling medical writers. Thanks @blreview.bsky.social for bringing us together. The video is below.
youtu.be/IFXH7TDk81M?...
youtu.be/IFXH7TDk81M?...
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Coulrophobia" by Jacob M. Appel from Issue 9. (Coulrophobia is, of course, the irrational fear of clowns or mimes.) 📖
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Coulrophobia" by Jacob M. Appel from Issue 9. (Coulrophobia is, of course, the irrational fear of clowns or mimes.) 📖
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "If You Scared, Say You Scared" by Sheree L. Greer which was published in Issue 45 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 👏
Learn more about the pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about the pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "If You Scared, Say You Scared" by Sheree L. Greer which was published in Issue 45 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 👏
Learn more about the pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about the pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
BLR's Weekly Read newsletter brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is “To See How the Snow Blanketed the Trees" by Cory Brown, from Issue 40. 📖
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
BLR's Weekly Read newsletter brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is “To See How the Snow Blanketed the Trees" by Cory Brown, from Issue 40. 📖
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Fall is here along with community news! 🍂 Congrats to these writers and creatives on their updates.
October 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fall is here along with community news! 🍂 Congrats to these writers and creatives on their updates.
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "An Infinite Hunger" by @joonae.bsky.social from Issue 44. 📖
Learn more about this story: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this story: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "An Infinite Hunger" by @joonae.bsky.social from Issue 44. 📖
Learn more about this story: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this story: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
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"Joy is an act of resistance"--Toi Derricotte
LOVE this essay by @danielleofri.bsky.social about joy being a way of standing up to tyranny. Beethoven's 9th is a work of joy, and my favorite symphony!
@thelancet.com @blreview.bsky.social
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LOVE this essay by @danielleofri.bsky.social about joy being a way of standing up to tyranny. Beethoven's 9th is a work of joy, and my favorite symphony!
@thelancet.com @blreview.bsky.social
danielleofri.com/defiant-acts...
Defiant Acts of Joy
When a friend hit me up with a “great opportunity”, my answer was an immediate no. Whatever crumbs of free time in my possession were now taken up with responding to the Trump administration’s atta…
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October 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Joy is an act of resistance"--Toi Derricotte
LOVE this essay by @danielleofri.bsky.social about joy being a way of standing up to tyranny. Beethoven's 9th is a work of joy, and my favorite symphony!
@thelancet.com @blreview.bsky.social
danielleofri.com/defiant-acts...
LOVE this essay by @danielleofri.bsky.social about joy being a way of standing up to tyranny. Beethoven's 9th is a work of joy, and my favorite symphony!
@thelancet.com @blreview.bsky.social
danielleofri.com/defiant-acts...
BLR Issue 49 on Animalia is here! And to celebrate, we're trying out an exciting new format for our fall reading. 📖
Join us Thursday, October 23 online for a LIVE event. We'll hear from Animalia authors as they share their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 🦉
www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
Join us Thursday, October 23 online for a LIVE event. We'll hear from Animalia authors as they share their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 🦉
www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
October 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
BLR Issue 49 on Animalia is here! And to celebrate, we're trying out an exciting new format for our fall reading. 📖
Join us Thursday, October 23 online for a LIVE event. We'll hear from Animalia authors as they share their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 🦉
www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
Join us Thursday, October 23 online for a LIVE event. We'll hear from Animalia authors as they share their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 🦉
www.tickettailor.com/events/belle...
Today's Weekly Read is "I Must Have Been That Man" by Adina Talve-Goodman, winner of BLR's 2015 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction. ✨
Learn more about the essay and The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, a mentorship created in Adina's memory. blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about the essay and The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, a mentorship created in Adina's memory. blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today's Weekly Read is "I Must Have Been That Man" by Adina Talve-Goodman, winner of BLR's 2015 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction. ✨
Learn more about the essay and The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, a mentorship created in Adina's memory. blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about the essay and The Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship, a mentorship created in Adina's memory. blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Bellevue Literary Review is excited to offer its 2026 writing workshop—Writing Illness onto the Page—to all who are interested in exploring the complexities of health, illness, and healing. 📝
Learn more and register:
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Learn more and register:
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September 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bellevue Literary Review is excited to offer its 2026 writing workshop—Writing Illness onto the Page—to all who are interested in exploring the complexities of health, illness, and healing. 📝
Learn more and register:
blreview.org/blr-writing-...
Learn more and register:
blreview.org/blr-writing-...
BLR's Weekly Read newsletter brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Saint Elizabeth" from Issue 18. ✏️
Learn more about this pick:
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#literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literarycommunity
Learn more about this pick:
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#literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literarycommunity
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BLR's Weekly Read newsletter brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read is "Saint Elizabeth" from Issue 18. ✏️
Learn more about this pick:
blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
#literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literarycommunity
Learn more about this pick:
blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
#literarymagazine #literaryjournal #literarycommunity
Our virtual event Crafting a Story of Illness is TONIGHT! Who's joining? 🙋
BLR's @danielleofri.bsky.social—primary care doctor, author, and editor-in-chief—will moderate the discussion. 🎉
Details:
📆 TONIGHT, Thurs, Sept 25
🕐 7 PM - 8 PM EDT
💻Online
✨Free
buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
BLR's @danielleofri.bsky.social—primary care doctor, author, and editor-in-chief—will moderate the discussion. 🎉
Details:
📆 TONIGHT, Thurs, Sept 25
🕐 7 PM - 8 PM EDT
💻Online
✨Free
buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Our virtual event Crafting a Story of Illness is TONIGHT! Who's joining? 🙋
BLR's @danielleofri.bsky.social—primary care doctor, author, and editor-in-chief—will moderate the discussion. 🎉
Details:
📆 TONIGHT, Thurs, Sept 25
🕐 7 PM - 8 PM EDT
💻Online
✨Free
buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
BLR's @danielleofri.bsky.social—primary care doctor, author, and editor-in-chief—will moderate the discussion. 🎉
Details:
📆 TONIGHT, Thurs, Sept 25
🕐 7 PM - 8 PM EDT
💻Online
✨Free
buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
Crafting a Story of Illness is in just 2 days! We are thrilled that nurse and bestselling author @theresabrown.bsky.social is joining us as a panelist. 🎉
Details:
📆Thursday, Sept 25
🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
💻Online
✨This event is free and open to the public
RSVP: buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
Details:
📆Thursday, Sept 25
🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
💻Online
✨This event is free and open to the public
RSVP: buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Crafting a Story of Illness is in just 2 days! We are thrilled that nurse and bestselling author @theresabrown.bsky.social is joining us as a panelist. 🎉
Details:
📆Thursday, Sept 25
🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
💻Online
✨This event is free and open to the public
RSVP: buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
Details:
📆Thursday, Sept 25
🕐 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EDT
💻Online
✨This event is free and open to the public
RSVP: buytickets.at/bellevuelite...
BLR’s Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week’s read is “Mental Health Days” by Sakena Jwan Washington, from Issue 43: Recovery. ❤️🩹 @sakenajwan.bsky.social
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
September 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
BLR’s Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week’s read is “Mental Health Days” by Sakena Jwan Washington, from Issue 43: Recovery. ❤️🩹 @sakenajwan.bsky.social
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this pick: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
We are excited to introduce Sandeep Jauhar as a panelist in next week's "Crafting a Story of Illness" event! 🎙️
Sandeep is a cardiologist at @northwellhealth.bsky.social and bestselling author.
Sandeep is a cardiologist at @northwellhealth.bsky.social and bestselling author.
September 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We are excited to introduce Sandeep Jauhar as a panelist in next week's "Crafting a Story of Illness" event! 🎙️
Sandeep is a cardiologist at @northwellhealth.bsky.social and bestselling author.
Sandeep is a cardiologist at @northwellhealth.bsky.social and bestselling author.
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read—the story "White Space" by Amanda McCormick—recalls the chaos and confusion in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Learn more about this read: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this read: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
September 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
BLR's Weekly Read brings you one outstanding story, poem, or essay from our archive. This week's read—the story "White Space" by Amanda McCormick—recalls the chaos and confusion in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Learn more about this read: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...
Learn more about this read: blreview.org/blog/weekly-...