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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · 1d

This is the third game of TELEPHONE and consists of 1,395 individual, interconnected, and original works by artists from 930 cities in 65 countries. What an amazing gift! Kudos to everyone who made this huge ekphrastic art project possible. telephonegame.art

TELEPHONE

Whispering a message among art forms. Explore the TELEPHONE interactive art exhibition featuring diverse artists and creative expressions.

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · 5d

Baltimore Writers' Conference is November 15, 2025. Register before October 24 for the early-bird registration rate. Always an excellent conference!

Baltimore Writers' Conference

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NewPages @newpages.bsky.social · Sep 10

Baltimore Review 2025 is the annual print issue featuring poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from their online quarterly as well as short-form contest winners.

#litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity
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Magazine Stand :: Baltimore Review - Print Annual 2025

The Baltimore Review 2025 annual print compilation showcases the best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from the journal's online issues.

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Sep 4

We'll have a table at the Baltimore Book Festival next weekend. Copies of Baltimore Review 2025 and print compilations from years past, games to play, and friendly BR editors who love to chat with readers and writers. If you're there, stop by and say hello! baltimorebookfest.com

Baltimore Book Festival

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Sep 1

Baltimore Review's special micro category is now open and closes Sept. 14. Responses by Sept. 30. Hope to see some stunners from the micro masters. baltimorereview.submittable.com/submit/33414...

Baltimore Review - Micro Submissions - 400 words or less

A micro submission period for micro works. Open two weeks. Responses sent by the end of September. Because we love micros so much, we plan to feature a group of these small wonders in our fall issue....

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 14

Announcing a special micro category for the Baltimore Review fall issue: 400 words max, one or two micros in one sub, micro submission period (9/1 – 9/14) and response by 9/30. Payment for accepted work at our usual rate. Because we love the short and surprising. baltimorereview.org

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A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks for sharing!

Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 11

A cool resources page. Very generous of Matt Kendrick to share this. www.mattkendrick.co.uk/resources @mattkendrick.bsky.social

Resources | MattKendrick.co.uk

Free resources from Matt Kendrick.

www.mattkendrick.co.uk

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 11

More writing opportunities (including the BR):

Jeanne's Writing Desk

Jeanne Lyet Gassman--all about writing

jeannelyetgassman.blogspot.com

Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 10

A party in Brooklyn! August 22 at 8. The Living Gallery. BR's Claire Zhang hosting.🥳

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 10

We'll have a table at the Baltimore Book Festival. September 13 and 14. Locals, mark your calendars. baltimorebookfest.com

Baltimore Book Festival

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 8

A lovely recording included with this creative nonfiction piece by Maureen Tai. See the Listen bar at the bottom of the page and click. baltimorereview.org/summer_2025/...

Maureen Tai: A Cupful of Fish Food

Maureen Tai has a multi-faceted literary career as an award-winning published children’s author, adult fiction and non-fiction writer, accidental poet and book reviewer. Her works have appeared…

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Aug 1

Now open for submissions and reading for our fall issue. Knock our socks off. baltimorereview.org

The Baltimore Review

A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Jul 26

“This is a story I’ve carried for a long time. It’s about Bertha Murphy, but it’s also about my mother, and about the strange, intuitive pull I’ve always felt toward the supernatural. I’m grateful to finally give it shape on the page.” - Fay Sachpatzidis

Fay Sachpatzidis: Root Lady

Fay Sachpatzidis is a writer and poet based in New York City. Her writing has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Normal School, and Bodega Magazine, among other places.

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Jul 24

"When I began writing ‘Swimmingly,’ I thought I was writing a prose poem. (Who knows? Maybe I was!) I had the idea that I wanted to explore various idioms and tongue-twisters that I grew up hearing and consider what would happen if I literalized them." - Julie Marie Wade

Julie Marie Wade: Swimmingly

Julie Marie Wade's recent collections include The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone for the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize; Quick Change Artist: Poems…

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Jul 15

Aw, you're the coolest on the cool-o-meter, Chill Subs.

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Jul 15

Our summer 2025 issue is live! Thanks to everyone who made this issue possible. baltimorereview.org

Photo of Baltimore Review summer 2025 issue, faces of contributors.

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · May 28

Registered and paid for our AWP table for 2026. It's been a while for us, but it will be in Baltimore so—we're in! awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Conf...

Overview

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · May 18

A reminder—in case you have some stunning work to share—that our current submission period ends May 31. After that, we'll be working on our summer issue (includes contest winners) and our annual print compilation. baltimorereview.org

The Baltimore Review

A journal of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction

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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Apr 26

Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Show your local bookstores some love. Here's a big list of bookstores from @newpages.bsky.social www.newpages.com/independent-...

Independent Bookstores

Support your local independent bookstore. The NewPages Guide features the best indie bookstores in the U.S. and Canada.

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Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social · Apr 15

Today was a 4-poem pub day for me! I have a sestina and two other poems in The Bombay Literary Magazine and another poem in @baltimorereview.bsky.social Here are the links: baltimorereview.org/spring_2025/...

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Michael Downs @michaeldowns.bsky.social · Apr 16

"I’ve got a front-row seat at the fish bar at the end of the world, where happy hour is long past and closing time unclear."

Tender, funny, horrifying, outlandish, and so human. Buckle up and give a read to Ron Maclean's new story "Apocalypso" about the last cataclysm.
@baltimorereview.bsky.social

Ron MacLean: Apocalypso

Ron MacLean is author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something on Fire, Why the Long Face?, and the forthcoming Apocalypso, as well as the novels Headlong and Blue Winnetka Skies.…

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MoCo Underground Writers Showcase [Julia Tagliere] @mocounderground.bsky.social · Apr 12

Had a blast repping @baltimorereview.bsky.social today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social’s Conversations & Connections! Man, some *seriously* talented writers out there. I just loved getting to read all those pieces at editor speed dating.
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Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Apr 6

We were honored to be able to include her wonderful work "Entries from the Braille Encyclopedia" in our journal: baltimorereview.org/spring_2020/...

Naomi Cohn: Entries from the Braille Encyclopedia

Naomi Cohn is a poet and teaching artist who works with older adults and people living with disabilities. She’s also worked as a community organizer, encyclopedia copy editor, and grant writer.…

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