Bellingham Review

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Bellingham Review
Editor Jane Wong
Categories Literary magazine
FrequencyBiannual
Publisher Western Washington University
First issue1977
CountryUnited States
Based inBellingham, Washington
LanguageEnglish
Website www.bhreview.org
ISSN 0734-2934

The Bellingham Review is an American literary magazine published by Western Washington University. [1] The magazine was established in 1977 by the poets Knute Skinner and Peter Nicoletta. [2] [3] [4] The Bellingham Review includes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The current editor is writer Jane Wong. [5] Work that has appeared in the Bellingham Review has been reprinted in The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Best American Poetry . [4] Notable contributors include: Micah Nathan, Jenna Blum, Anne Panning, Sheila Bender, and Deborah A. Miranda.

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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.[ citation needed ]

Recent winners (nonfiction)
Recent winners (fiction)

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  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 27, 1996.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "WWU magazine wins arts grant". The Bellingham Herald. May 15, 2007.
  4. 1 2 San Francisco Chronicle. October 1, 2008.{{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Editor-in-Chief: Jane Wong". Bellingham Review. Retrieved February 8, 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Announcing the Winners of The Bellingham Review's 2015 Literary Contests". Bellingham Review. June 11, 2015. Archived from the original on June 16, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2015.