Bellevue Literary Review is producing a live storytelling event in NYC this fall on the theme of “Body Politic.” We are seeking true, personal stories about the fraught intersection of the body, healthcare, and society. 

We want to hear from you! 

We encourage people of all backgrounds and ages to submit a two-minute recorded pitch below. You might not think of yourself as a storyteller right now, but you do not need any prior writing or performance experience to participate.

Tell us about a time when your body, appearance, health, or well-being:

• changed your relationship to the world
• changed the world’s relationship to you
• clashed with society’s norms and laws
• forced you to confront a system or break a rule

These stories could come from:

• your personal world
• your work world
• someone else’s world or society more broadly, as you experienced it personally (how it changed you or your perspective). 

Note: The pitch does not have to be a finished piece (we'll work with you on that). We just want to get a sense of what the story is about and how the experience affected you.

Eligibility

If selected, you must be able to commit to:

• working with a professional storytelling coach over the course of several months to explore, edit, and develop your story, and to prepare you for the stage;
• a mandatory in-person rehearsal prior to the show; 
• attending and telling your story in-person in NYC, Saturday evening, November 16, 2024.

We hope to make final decisions by mid-July. If you have any questions or are experiencing technical difficulties, please feel free to reach out to us at info@blreview.org.

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2024

Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) is an award-winning, independent literary magazine that features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that connect writers and readers in the most human of themes: health, healing, illness, and disease.  Please familiarize yourself with the journal by visiting our website and past issues.

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Poetry Editor (volunteer), Bellevue Literary Review

BLR is seeking a Poetry Editor. Candidates must have significant poetry editing experience—either at a journal or in a teaching position. This is not a junior position, as the Poetry Editor will be leading a team of assistant editors.

Please note that this is a volunteer position. BLR offers a modest yearly honorarium, and also helps promote editors’ writings with social media, newsletters, and events.



Responsibilities:

BLR publishes two issues per year. We use Submittable and receive ~2,000 poetry submissions per year.

The Poetry Editor’s job is to:

• read and assess poetry submissions in a timely fashion on an ongoing basis (a team of reviewers helps make the first cut)
• work with the poetry team (four Assistant Editors) to choose the final selections
• work with authors to edit and polish their writing as needed 
• ensure that the poetry team remains on schedule with the production calendar
• facilitate open communication with the poetry team and the larger masthead. Organizing a team and engaging collaboratively within a team framework are necessary skills
  
   

Strong communication skills, rigorous time management and successful adherence to deadlines are a must.

Schedule: 

BLR staff meetings occur 3-4 x per year (mostly online), but we are back to in-person events and gatherings, so we will give strong preference to candidates in the NYC area. Additional poetry editorial meetings are held at the discretion of the poetry team. 

As a volunteer position, scheduling is flexible, but the Poetry Editor would be expected to put in the equivalent of 3-4 hours per week. 

Editors are welcome to participate in BLR events—online or in-person readings, conversations, and author interviews—as well as our educational, social media, and outreach initiatives, but this is optional.

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BLR recognizes that BIPOC, marginalized, and other underrepresented identities face unique challenges when accessing and engaging with the medical humanities. The poetry team strives to promote and serve writers whose work broadens the field of poetic inquiry. We look forward to speaking with applicants whose literary aesthetic engages with this mission.

Application materials: 

• Cover letter that addresses editing experience
• CV, including two references (BLR contacts references only if the application advances)
• Please engage with a poem published within the last five years–either a poem that speaks to your literary aesthetic or one that stretches you–along with your thoughtful analysis. Length: 250-500 words. 

Bellevue Literary Review (BLR) is an award-winning, independent literary magazine that features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that connect writers and readers in the most human of themes: health, healing, illness, and disease.  Please familiarize yourself with the journal by visiting our website and past issues.

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Nonfiction Editor (volunteer), Bellevue Literary Review

BLR is seeking a Nonfiction Editor. Candidates must have significant nonfiction editing experience—either at a journal or in a teaching position. This is not a junior position, as the Nonfiction Editor will be leading a team of assistant editors.

  Please note that this is a volunteer position. BLR offers a modest yearly honorarium, and also helps promote editors’ writings with social media, newsletters, and events.



Responsibilities:

BLR publishes two issues per year. We use Submittable and receive ~1500 nonfiction submissions per year.

  The Nonfiction Editor’s job is to:

• read and assess nonfiction submissions in a timely fashion on an ongoing basis (a team of reviewers helps make the first cut)
• work with the nonfiction team (assistant editors) plus editor-in-chief to choose the final selections
• work with authors to edit and polish their writing as needed (hands-on editing is divided among the nonfiction team)
• ensure that the nonfiction team remains on schedule with the production calendar
• facilitate open communication with the nonfiction team and the larger masthead. Organizing a team and engaging collaboratively within a team framework are necessary skills
  
   

Strong communication skills, rigorous time management and successful adherence to deadlines are a must.


Schedule:

BLR staff meetings occur 3-4 x per year (mostly online), but we are back to in-person events and gatherings, so we will give strong preference to candidates in the NYC area.

  As a volunteer position, scheduling is flexible, but the Nonfiction Editor would be expected to put in the equivalent of 3-4 hours per week.

  Editors are welcome to participate in BLR events—online or in-person readings, conversations, and author interviews—as well as our educational, social media, and outreach initiatives, but this is optional.
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BLR recognizes that BIPOC, marginalized, and other underrepresented communities face unique challenges when accessing and engaging with the medical humanities. The BLR team strives to engage with writers, readers, and colleagues whose work broadens the field of literary inquiry. 

Application materials: 

• Cover letter that addresses editing experience
• CV, including two references (BLR contacts references only if the application advances)
• Writing sample that relates to BLR themes of health, illness and healing. Max 3000 words.*

BLR seeks high-caliber, unpublished* work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. 

FICTION GUIDELINES:

We seek character-driven fiction with original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, horror). We have only occasionally published flash fiction. While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do lean toward classic short stories.

• We happily consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Manuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please reach out to info@blreview.org.
• 5,000 word maximum (though most of stories are 2,000-4,000 words)
• There is a $5 fee per general submission, which is waived for current subscribers. (If you are not a current subscriber, you can subscribe when you submit your work and take advantage of free submission.) These fees help BLR fund publication of the journal, but please contact us at info@blreview.org if you are experiencing financial hardship.
• We strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.
• Authors receive $150 upon publication. Authors will also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears, plus an additional one-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.
• All submissions must be of previously unpublished work.*  BLR acquires First North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.

(*For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere–and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance–we will remove it from consideration.)

BLR seeks high-caliber, unpublished* work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.

CREATIVE NONFICTION GUIDELINES:

We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate anecdotes that feel  alive, and dazzle us with thoughtful and creative analysis that allows  these anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. (Please note that we do not publish graphic narratives, academic discourses, or works with footnotes.) 

• We happily consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Manuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please reach out to info@blreview.org. 
• 5,000 word maximum (though most of stories are 2,000-4,000 words)
• There is a $5 fee per general submission, which is waived for current subscribers. (If you are not a current subscriber, you can subscribe when you submit your work and take advantage of free submission.) These fees help BLR fund publication of the journal, but please contact us at info@blreview.org if you are experiencing financial hardship.
• We strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.
• Authors receive $150 upon publication. Authors will also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears, plus an additional one-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.
• All submissions must be of previously unpublished work.* BLR acquires First North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.

(*For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere–and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance–we will remove it from consideration.)

BLR seeks high-caliber, unpublished work, broadly and creatively related to our  themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.

POETRY GUIDELINES:

We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos. 

• We happily consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Manuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable. If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please reach out to info@blreview.org. 
• Please include no more than three poems per submission. Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document.
• There is a $5 fee per general submission, which is waived for current subscribers. (If you are not a current subscriber, you can subscribe when you submit your work and take advantage of free submission.) These fees help BLR fund publication of the journal, but please contact us at info@blreview.org if you are experiencing financial hardship.
• We strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.
• Authors receive $150 upon publication. Authors will also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears, plus an additional one-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.
• All submissions must be of previously unpublished work.* BLR acquires First North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.

(*For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere–and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance–we will remove it from consideration.) 

The annual BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.

 

2025 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction
Judged by Wayétu Moore
 

Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, released by Graywolf Press in September 2018. Her memoir, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was also released with Graywolf on June 2, 2020. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction and the 2022 William Saroyan Prize for Nonfiction.

She Would Be King was named a best book of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist & Entertainment Weekly. The novel was a Sarah Jessica Parker Book Club selection, a BEA Buzz Panel Book, a #1 Indie Next Pick and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Award. The Dragons, The Giant, The Women was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book, Time Magazine 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, Publishers Weekly Top 5 Nonfiction Books of 2020, was longlisted for the ALA Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in nonfiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moore is a graduate of Howard University, University of Southern California and Columbia University.

GUIDELINES:   
 

• Deadline: July 1, 2024
• First prize is $1,000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.  
    Honorable mention winners will receive $300 and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.
• Fiction: Bellevue Literary Review seeks character-driven fiction with  original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, horror).  Our word max is 5,000, though most of our published stories tend to be in the range of 2,000-4,000 words. We have only occasionally published flash fiction.  While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do lean toward classic short stories.  
• Do not put your name or other identifying information on the manuscript document (or in the filename). Manuscripts are read blindly by reviewers, editors, and judges.
• Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or  published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on  personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is  discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly  acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from  consideration.
• Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
• All contest entries will also be considered for regular publication.
• Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
• BLR acquires first-time North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies. After publication, all other rights revert  to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
   

  We encourage you to read BLR before you submit. Samples from each issue are available on our website.

  We're happy to offer a 50% subscription discount to all authors who participate in the contest. (If you live outside the US, you must select the International option. Otherwise, we'll be unable to ship the journal to you. Thanks!)

 

The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.

2025 Felice Buckvar Prize for Nonfiction
Judged by Esmé Weijun Wang 

Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias, a New York Times bestseller; its publication is the result of having won the 2016 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Her debut novel, The Border of Paradise, has received accolades from LitHub, NPR Books, and the Chicago Review of Books. Wang was selected by Granta for their once-a-decade Best Young American Novelists list of 21 authors under 40. In 2018 she received the prestigious Whiting Award for Nonfiction. She write essays that have been published in the Believer, Catapult, Hazlitt, and Salon. Her short story, “What Terrible Thing It Was,” was featured in the Best American Short Stories 2018 anthology. Wang is also the founder of The Unexpected Shape™ Writing Academy, a full-service online writing school for people with limitations who want to write memoir and/or personal nonfiction.

GUIDELINES:
 

• Deadline: July 1, 2024
• First prize is $1,000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.  
  Honorable mention winners will receive $300 and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.
• Creative Nonfiction: We are looking for essays  that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic  in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate anecdotes that feel  alive, and dazzle us with thoughtful and creative analysis that allows  these anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. Please note that we do not publish graphic narratives, academic discourses, or works with footnotes. (5,000 words maximum)
• Do not put your name or other identifying information on the manuscript document (or in the filename). Manuscripts are read blindly by reviewers, editors, and judges. 
• Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. For BLR,  “published work” means published in print in North America, or  published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic  websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on  personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is  discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly  acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from  consideration.)
• Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify  us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.  We regret that there can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
• All contest entries will also be considered for regular publication.
• Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
• BLR acquires first-time North American rights, and the right  to reprint in anthologies.  After publication, all other rights revert  to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate  acknowledgement to BLR is made.
   

We encourage you to read BLR before you submit.  Sample writing is available on our website.

We're happy to offer a 50% subscription discount to all authors who participate in the contest. (If you live outside the US, you must select the International option. Otherwise, we'll be unable to ship the journal to you. Thanks!)

The BLR Prizes award outstanding writing related to themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body.

2025 John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry

Judged by Leila Mottley

Leila Mottley is the author of the novel Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller. She was also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. Her debut poetry collection woke up no light will be published on April 16, 2024.
 

GUIDELINES

• Deadline: July 1, 2024
• First prize is $1,000 (in each genre) and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.  Honorable mention winners will receive $300 and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of BLR.
• Poetry: We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos.  You may submit up to three poems per submission (include all three in one file).
• Do not put your name or other identifying information on the manuscript document (or in the filename). Manuscripts are read blindly by reviewers, editors, and judges.
• Work previously published in print or electronically will not be considered. For BLR,  “published work” means published in print in North America, or  published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic  websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on  personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis.  We ask that authors be honest about web postings. (If a work is  discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere—and not openly  acknowledged by the author in advance—we will remove it from  consideration.)
• Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but we ask that you notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.  We regret that there  can be no refunds or substitutions for withdrawn work.
• All contest entries will also be considered for regular publication.
• Students/friends/colleagues/relations of a judge are not permitted to enter submissions to that judge's genre.
• BLR acquires first-time North American rights, and the right  to reprint in anthologies.  After publication, all other rights revert  to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate  acknowledgement to BLR is made.

We encourage you to read BLR before you submit.  Sample writing is available on our website.

We're happy to offer a 50% subscription discount to all authors who participate in the contest. (If you live outside the US, you must select the International option. Otherwise, we'll be unable to ship the journal to you. Thanks!)

Subscribing to the journal is a tangible—and very much appreciated—way of supporting the BLR.  The $25 fee is our regular one-year subscription price, so the submission is free with your subscription order.  (If you live outside the United States, you must select the option that includes international shipping in order to receive print copies. Otherwise we will process your order as a digital subscription. Thank you for understanding.)
 

Please also feel free to use this category if you are a subscriber who would like to renew your subscription while making a submission. 

Please note: Only general submissions can be made through this category. Contest entries must be submitted under the appropriate contest category when the BLR Prizes are open for submission.

Fiction:
Bellevue Literary Review seeks character-driven fiction with  original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi,  horror) and have only occasionally published flash fiction. While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do lean toward classic short stories.
 

Creative Nonfiction:
We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic  in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate anecdotes that feel alive, and dazzle us with thoughtful and creative analysis that allows  these anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. Please note that we do not publish graphic narratives, academic discourses, or works with footnotes.

Poetry:
We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos.
 

We encourage you to read BLR before you submit. Please check out our online archive.

 

GUIDELINES

• We happily consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Manuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable.
• Fiction/nonfiction word max is 5,000 words, though most of our published prose is in the range of 2,000-4,000 words.
• Include no more than three poems per submission. Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document.
• There is a $5 fee per general submission but it’s waived for current subscribers. (If you are not a current subscriber, you can subscribe when you submit your work and take advantage of free submission.) These fees help BLR fund publication of the journal, please contact us at info@blreview.org if you're experiencing financial hardship.
• We strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.
• Authors receive $75 for poetry and $150 for prose upon publication. Authors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears, plus an additional 1-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.
• All submissions must be of previously unpublished work.* BLR acquires First North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
   

(*For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere–and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance–we will remove it from consideration.)

 

We recognize that subscribing to the journal is a tangible—and very much appreciated—way of supporting the BLR, thus the submission fee is waived for current subscribers.

This portal is for subscribers only. Manuscripts accidentally uploaded here by non-subscribers will not be reviewed.

• If you are unsure of your subscription status, or if you subscribe under a different  name, please send us an email at info@blreview.org and we'll get  back to you ASAP. 
• If you are not a BLR subscriber, please submit under the General Submissions category, or use the Subscribe + Submit category.  
• We are happy to consider fee waivers in order to make submitting accessible to writers.  Please reach out to info@blreview.org to inquire about a fee waiver (or reduced-fee contest entry when the BLR Prizes are open).

Please do not have more than two active submissions at a time. Please note that only general or theme issue submissions can be made through this category. Contest entries (when open) must be submitted under the appropriate contest category.

GUIDELINES

Fiction:
Bellevue Literary Review seeks character-driven fiction with  original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, horror). Most of our published stories tend to be in the range of 2,000-4,000 words. We have only occasionally published flash fiction.  While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do  lean toward classic short stories. (5,000 words max.)

Creative Nonfiction:
We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate anecdotes that feel  alive, and dazzle us with thoughtful and creative analysis that allows  these anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. Please note that we do not publish graphic narratives, academic discourses, or works with footnotes. (5,000 words max.)

Poetry:
We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new. We encourage you to peruse back issues in our archive to get a sense of our ethos. Please submit no more than three poems. Each poem should be on a separate page within a single document.
 

• We happily consider simultaneous submissions, but please inform us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
• Manuscripts can only be accepted electronically via Submittable.
• We strive to provide several reviewers for each manuscript and kindly ask your patience in this necessarily slow process. But if you have not heard from us within five months, feel free to inquire about your manuscript.
•  Authors receive $75 for poetry and $150 for prose upon publication. Authors also receive two copies of the issue in which their work appears, plus an additional 1-year subscription to BLR. There is an author discount for purchasing extra copies.
• All submissions must be of previously unpublished work.* BLR acquires First North American rights, and the right to reprint in anthologies and online. After publication, all other rights revert to the author and the work may be reprinted as long as appropriate acknowledgement to BLR is made.
   

(*For BLR, “published work” means published in print in North America, or published on the Internet in electronic journals, e-zines, academic websites, and other “public” or “official” websites. Works posted on personal blogs or websites will be considered on a case-by-case basis. We ask that authors be honest about web postings. If a work is discovered to have been posted or published elsewhere–and not openly acknowledged by the author in advance–we will remove it from consideration.)