Baltimore Review Spring 2026 issue is now online to enjoy, with opening lines that will entice you to keep reading. In creative nonfiction: “All winter we cultivate our manias.” writes Amy Halloran in “Vegetable Kingdom”; Annie Marhefka opens “El Sendero” with “In his dating profile picture, Greg has sun on his face. . . “; “At Pickles Pub in Baltimore” by Caroline Bock starts, “Within the first fifteen minutes, I learn that you haven’t read a book in thirty years…”; and “Searching for the Fifth Sense” by Betty Ruddy – “I used to have a nose.”
In fiction, the titles are enough, with Yuan Jiang’s “PagerDuty Against the End of the World,” Julien Shen’s “Ducks,” and Gordon Brown’s “Death of a Hotel Manager.” Poets featured in this issue include Zach Eaton, Amie Whittemore, Patrick Whitfill, Dana Holley Maloney, Meg McManama, Jane Hilberry, and Emily Kingery.
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