The Summer 2025 issue of The Baltimore Review features the winners of their summer contest selected by final judge Pamela Painter: “It’s Not the End of the World, but I Can See It from Here,” prose poetry by Corey Zeller; “Tornado Family,” flash creative nonfiction by M.S. Reagan; and “Back Together Again,” flash fiction by D.E. Hardy. Filling out the rest of the issue that readers can access online include Stefan Balan, Adriana Beltran, Kate Broad, Tom Busillo, Dolapo Demuren, Sam Flaster, David Hansen, D.E. Hardy, Andrea Figueroa-Irizarry, Michael T. Lawson, M.S. Reagan, Fay Sachpatzidis, Tim Stobierski, Maureen Tai, Cammy Thomas, Julie Marie Wade, Carson Wolfe, and Corey Zeller.

Readers can also check out past issues online back to the Winter 2012. Before that — starting with Vol. I, No. 1, Winter 1997 — The Baltimore Review was print only and continues to publish an annual print compilation every summer.

For readers who enjoy holding print copy in their hands, The Baltimore Review 2024 annual print edition features poems, stories, and creative nonfiction from the Summer 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, and Spring 2024 online issues. Readers are invited to visit the publication’s website to read contributors’ comments and listen to recordings of their work. Founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a publication of the Baltimore Writers’ Alliance, the journal became an independent nonprofit organization in 2004. Their mission has always been “to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area and beyond,” as they continue to explore new ways to share the world of writing, writers, and the writing life with their audience.

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The Spring 2023 issue of The Baltimore Review features poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction by Jared Beloff, Allisa Cherry, Sarah Elkins, Adam Forrester, Kimberly Glanzman, Pete Mackey, Meg Robson Mahoney, Michael Minassian, Donna Obeid, Abigail Oswald, Emmy Ritchey, Cressida Blake Roe, Adrie Rose, Huina Zheng, and Jane Zwart. Many contributors also provide notes about their work, as well as audio recordings. All issues of The Baltimore Review back to Winter 2012 can be read online at no cost, and content from the online issues is also published in annual print compilations. Founded in 1996, The Baltimore Review showcases writers from Baltimore, across the U.S., and beyond.