Bellevue Literary Review

An independent literary journal of fiction, nonfiction, & poetry about health, illness, & healing. Issue 50, featuring the 2026 BLR Prizewinners, coming soon.

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This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—marked BLR's 20th anniversary. An expanded issue, it included an editorial roundtable with the BLR team and new writing by over 50 authors. Read 3 issue highlights & more in our weekly post: https://t.co/bFHZiesKJG

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

TONIGHT! 🎉 Join us for a live reading to celebrate BLR’s 25th anniversary issue, as we welcome the issue's authors to share their stories, poems, and essays. (Plus, enjoy an evening of community 👥 and connection!)

RSVP, free: https://t.co/MUOHclI7im

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

Looking for a unique opportunity to write about health, illness, and healing? Join BLR’s upcoming online workshop, led by @srnigliazzo, to explore haiku as a practice of presence and attention. (Dec. 3 @ 7pm, online, $45) https://t.co/BDOA7xM4Bc

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This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—revisits past BLR Prizewinners, including "Tattoos" by Galen Schram, "The Tapeworm" by Amy V. Blakemore, & "Never the Less" by Saleem Hue Penny. Read these & more in our weekly blog post: https://t.co/cUBtonC3dm

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

Please join us for BLR's 25th anniversary celebration on November 12 at the historic Century Club in NYC. 🎉 We will honor BLR’s 25 years as well as our visionary founding editor-in-chief, @danielleofri.

We'd love to see you there!
https://t.co/YZdu5SIxd6

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—is "Reading the Body," a theme issue on the body & how it speaks to us. (It was also the first issue of BLR to be published independently!) Read 3 issue highlights & more in our weekly post: https://t.co/PK0H0T0Dj7

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A hundred years ago, Virginia Woolf published her second most famous essay, “On Being Ill.” Written during a prolonged bout of illness the previous fall, Woolf asked why sickness—an unavoidable feature of human experience—is represented so rarely and inadequately in literature. “It becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature,” she wrote. Now Hermione Hoby writes, “The intervening century has qualified, if hardly refuted, the claim that sickness is neglected in fiction.” Hoby assesses how writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Albert Camus, Lena Dunham, and more have portrayed sickness in literature—and why we’re still struggling to put physical suffering into words: https://t.co/YWPlWo5GMD

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

BLR's 25th Anniversary Issue is here! 🎉 And to celebrate it, we're welcoming authors from the issue for a live reading. 📖

Join us online on Thurs, 10/22, for an evening of new poems, stories, & essays, plus the joy of community & connection.

https://t.co/MUOHclHzsO

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—revisits past BLR Prizewinners, with more to explore in our weekly blog post. Plus, the colorful WWII-inspired cover has a story of its own. 🎨 https://t.co/HaUq8ootR5

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It's an exciting time to be part of the BLR community, with new releases & milestones from our authors. 🎉 A few highlights are shown here, plus there’s even more in our recent roundup: https://t.co/3E3Sea1glG

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This week's ft. issue—part of our 25th anniv lookback—is entitled "A Good Life" & showcases poetry & prose that looks deeply at the joys & complications of our individual worlds. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: https://t.co/Q99x4JwOAW

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

Ever wondered whether a "Creativity in Medicine" workshop is for you? Well, the answer is yes! We invite you to join us Thursday for a workshop that explores how art & literature can be used to to consider medicine’s complexities. 🎨✒️🩺🥼
https://t.co/uk0VsUULRY

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This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—revisits the 2019 BLR Prizewinners, with more to explore in our weekly blog post. Plus, the most spring-like cover 🌸 in BLR's history! https://t.co/IHPaU2ME8h

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

Ready to welcome your fall days with a great new read? 📖 🎉 Pre-order your copy of BLR's upcoming 25th anniversary issue! In addition to a stellar mix of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, check out all the extras in this special expanded issue! https://t.co/BlaiTlxNjk

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Why does medicine need creativity? Join BLR’s upcoming online workshop to discover how art and literature can be accessible guides for navigating the often unsettling waters of illness, caregiving, and healing. (Sept. 24 @ 7pm, online, $25) https://t.co/8fjf6Li242

#medhum

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

"Today marks 25 years since the devastating 9/11 attacks. Even after all these years, it still feels impossible to wrap one’s mind around the enormity...of that day," writes editor @danielleofri. When ordinary words fail, turning to literature can help. https://t.co/31cBRBBrSW

[Turtle Point Press @TurtlePPress]

NYC Friends: A very special reading and conversation TONIGHT, 7pm, out back @UnnameableB, 615 Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. This is the launch of veteran writer, editor, and teacher Suzanne McConnell’s debut story collection, <<If You Think Your Heart Can Take It.>> Suzanne is a writer and reader of the first order with rare wisdom of the mind and heart—a gift she delivers beautifully on the page. Join us if you can!

#suzannemcconnell #ruthgreenstein #UnnameableBooks @SHB_books @BLReview

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This week's featured issue—part of our 25th anniversary lookback—highlights poetry &amp; prose on displacement, allowing readers to grapple with the upending of the familiar, the shifting of lives, and the geographical &amp; emotional sense of belonging elsewhere. https://t.co/eWzR0B0GS5

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We are thrilled that BLR Board Member (and author) Perri Klass is receiving this well-deserved award. Her work -- as a pediatrician, writer, and National Medical Director of @reachoutandread -- has improved the lives of children and communities for decades. 📖🫶

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

We are delighted to announce Perri Klass, MD—pediatrician, writer, and longtime National Medical Director of Reach Out and Read—as the recipient of the 2026 Literarian Award.

Read the @usatoday article to learn more 🔗
https://t.co/gFGAZBaXqG

[Bellevue Literary Review @BLReview]

It's been a thrill to look back through our issues this year, as part of our 25th anniversary 🎉 This week, we're sharing Issue 34. Read three issue highlights, with more to explore in our weekly blog post: https://t.co/MYE3dgPsNZ