{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Short description|American literary magazine}} {{Infobox magazine | cover = | editor = Jane Wong | category = Literary magazine | language = English | publisher = Western Washington University | country = United States | based = Bellingham, Washington | frequency = Biannual | firstdate = 1977 | website = {{URL|www.bhreview.org}} | issn = 0734-2934 }} The '''''Bellingham Review''''' is an American literary magazine published by Western Washington University.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Kevin |last=Larimer |title=Literary MagNet |magazine=Poets & Writers |date=May–June 2007}}</ref> The magazine was established in 1977 by the poets Knute Skinner and Peter Nicoletta.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |title= |newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=September 27, 1996 |page= }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |title=WWU magazine wins arts grant |newspaper=The Bellingham Herald |date=May 15, 2007 |page= }}</ref><ref name="SFChronicle">{{cite news |first= |last= |title= |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=October 1, 2008 |page= }}</ref> ''The Bellingham Review'' includes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The current editor is writer Jane Wong.<ref>{{cite web |title=Editor-in-Chief: Jane Wong |website=Bellingham Review |url=https://bhreview.org/staff-information/jane-wong/ |access-date=2024-02-08}}</ref> Work that has appeared in the ''Bellingham Review'' has been reprinted in ''The Pushcart Prize Anthology'' and ''The Best American Poetry''.<ref name="SFChronicle"/> Notable contributors include: Micah Nathan, Jenna Blum, Anne Panning, Sheila Bender, and Deborah A. Miranda.
==Awards== The magazine yearly awards "The Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction" and "The Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction". The awards were established by novelist Robin Hemley, a former ''Bellingham Review'' editor.{{cn|date=February 2024}}
;Recent winners (nonfiction): *2002 - Ander Monson *2006 - Madeline Sonik *2009 - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich *2015 - Leigh Claire Schmidli<ref name=bellr>{{cite web |url=http://bhreview.org/2015/06/11/announcing-the-winners-of-the-bellingham-reviews-2015-literary-contests/ |title=Announcing the Winners of The Bellingham Review's 2015 Literary Contests |website=Bellingham Review |date=June 11, 2015 |access-date=June 15, 2015 |archive-date=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616070327/http://bhreview.org/2015/06/11/announcing-the-winners-of-the-bellingham-reviews-2015-literary-contests/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
;Recent winners (fiction): *2006 - Mark Wisniewski *2007 - Natalie Diaz *2010 - Jacob M. Appel *2015 - Eric Roe<ref name=bellr/>
==See also== *List of literary magazines
==References== {{incomplete citations|date=February 2024}} {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.bhreview.org}}
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