We are thrilled to announce our 2026 literary contest winners! We received 722 submissions this round (!) and we loved reading your pieces. Congrats to all our finalists! The first place winner of each contest will receive $1,000. The secon…
We are thrilled to announce our 2026 literary contest winners! We received 722 submissions this round (!) and we loved reading your pieces. Congrats to all our finalists! The first place winner of each contest will receive $1,000. The secon…
We received over 750 submissions to our literary contests this year in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction! The BR team loved reading your work and we were honored to send along the following finalists to our guest judges: Gabrielle Bates, Laur…
Dearest reader, I write to you from a place of transition right now—I pen this letter in the hours of the night that are simultaneously too early and too late, at a point in the year when the season starts to peel off her cloud-gray and shi…
By Chen PoyuTranslated from Taiwanese Mandarin by Nicholas Wong A miniature gacha machine was moved to the sitting room during the Christmas season. If my sister and I behaved well, we would earn a chance to turn its crank. In each capsule,…
Why is it that Gujarati Aunties always seem to think they know you? I’m walking toward the mall entrance and there’s this Auntie standing in front of the doors, like she’s waiting for someone. She is holding a plastic department store bag i…
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Dr. Dolapo Demuren (he/him) is a Nigerian-American writer from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. He received his B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, M.F.A from Columbia University and Ed.D from the University of Sou…
Parul Desai Shah is a reformed advertising copy writer. Her works have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2025 and The Best of the Net 2026. She is currently a Blackburn Fellow pursuing the Randolph College MFA in Creative Writing. Why i…
Leonardo Chung is a Korean American writer attending Yale University. He recently won First Place in Poetry in the Los Angeles Review and First Place for Nonfiction in the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. His work appears in…
nat raum is a queer disabled artist, writer, and editor based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. Past publishers of their writing include Split Lip Magazine, Poetry.onl, Baltimore Beat, Poet Lore, beestung, and other…
Audrey Coble is a writer of creative nonfiction and disability researcher living on Dena’ina land in Anchorage, Alaska. They hold an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2024), and their work has been featured in Apocalypse Confiden…