Baltimore Review is an American literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 founded in 1996.. It publishes short stories

Short Stories

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, poetry

Poetry

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 , creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction

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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 BR became a Web-based journal in 2011, and the first Web issue will be launched in 2012. Web-published work will be collected in print issues. Work that first appeared in the Baltimore Review have been shortlisted for the Pushcart Prize

Pushcart Prize

The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

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

Notable contributors

• Jacob Appel
  Jacob M. Appel
  Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....
  
  
• Deborah Mitchell Ashburn
• Andre Codrescu
• Michael Glaser
• Tom Glenn
• Sharon Goldner
• Melissa S. Hardin
• Reginald Harris
• Rosemary Harty

• Jamie Holland
• Adriana Husta
• Jay O'Callahan
• Karen T. Miller
• Deirdra McAfee
• Meg Mullins
• Michael Salcman
  Michael Salcman
  Michael Salcman is an American poet and physician who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. His poetical work is infused and vivified by his medical profession, his love of and expertise in contemporary art, and by the fact that his parents were Holocaust survivors...
  
  
• Thomas Stringer
  Thomas Stringer
  Thomas Stringer was an English cricketer who played one first-class cricket match, for Worcestershire in 1909....
  
  
• Bill Valentine

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• Barbara Westwood Diehl - Founding and Senior Editor
• Kathleen Hellen - Senior Editor
• Gregg Mosson - Editor
• Heather Harris - Editor
• Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson - Editor
• Lalita Noronha - Editor
• Michael Salcman - Editor
• Nate Haken - Editor
• Sam Schmidt - Editor
• Susan Muaddi Darraj - Conference Liaison
• Matt Diehl - Webmaster