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, United States. The northernmost university in the contiguous United States, WWU was founded in 1893 as the state-funded New Whatcom Normal School, s ...
. 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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
s
Knute Skinner and Peter Nicoletta.
''The Bellingham Review'' includes
fiction
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying character (arts), individuals, events, or setting (narrative), places that are imagination, imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent ...
,
poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
, and
creative non-fiction
Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts ...
. The current
editor
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is writer 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 genera ...
''.
Notable contributors include:
Micah Nathan
Micah Nathan is an American author, journalist, video game writer, and lecturer at MIT. His novels—''Gods of Aberdeen'' (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and ''Losing Graceland'' (Broadway Books, 2011)—received widespread critical acclaim, with the f ...
,
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 ''Moder ...
,
Anne Panning,
Sheila Bender, and
Deborah A. Miranda.
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):
*2002 -
Ander Monson
Ander Monson (born April 9, 1975) is an American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer.
Life
He was raised in Houghton, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Upper Peninsula. His mother's death when he was seven years old is reflected in ...
*2006 -
Madeline Sonik
*2009 -
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
*2015 - Leigh Claire Schmidli
;Recent winners (fiction):
*2006 -
Mark Wisniewski
*2007 -
Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham. ...
*2010 -
Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel (born February 21, 1973) is an American polymath, author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer, and social critic.Nagamatsu, Sequoia "A Few Words with the Ubiquitous Jacob M. Appel" ''Prince Mincer'' Journal http://primemincer.com/ con ...
*2015 -
Eric Roe[
]
See also
*List of literary magazines
Below is a list of literary magazines and journals: periodicals devoted to book reviews, creative nonfiction, essays, poems, short fiction, and similar literary endeavors.
*Because the majority are from the United States, the country of origin ...
References
External links
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