Please title your submission with the name of the piece.

Our word limit is 4,000. For prose that is 500 words or fewer, you may submit up to three flash pieces in one entry. (These flash prose pieces will be considered individually, unless they are connected.)

Please do not submit additional work until you hear back from us. Reporting time normally varies from one to six months.

We welcome and encourage simultaneous submissions and ask that, if accepted elsewhere, that you withdraw your piece from consideration.

We are so excited to read your work! Thank you for sharing your writing with the BR team.

Submit up to 3 poems in a single document. Please title your submission with the name of the piece(s).

Send us your best and your strangest and the work you're most excited about. And everything in between. 

If one or two poems are accepted elsewhere and you want the other poem with us to remain under consideration, please leave a comment and Submittable. Do not withdraw the piece entirely, thank you. 

Please do not submit additional work until you hear back from us. Reporting time normally varies from one to six months.

We are so excited to read your work. Thank you for sharing your writing with the BR team!

Please title your submission with the name of the piece.

Our word limit is 4,000. For prose that is 500 words or fewer, you may submit up to three flash pieces in one entry. (These flash prose pieces will be considered individually, unless they are connected.)    Please do not submit additional work until you hear back from us. Reporting time normally varies from one to six months.

We welcome and encourage simultaneous submissions and ask that, if accepted elsewhere, that you withdraw your piece from consideration.

We are so excited to read your work! Thank you for sharing your writing with the BR team.

Bellingham Review defines a hybrid work as one which possesses more than one meaning-making mode (language, genre, art, anything visual, and/or surprise us!). By its nature, hybridity borrows and subverts traditional form to create anew. If your work doesn't fit into conventional boxes, this space is for you.

Our word limit is 4,000. If the word count stands less than 500, you can submit up to 3 pieces in a single document. Otherwise, please limit the submission to one piece. 

Please do not submit additional work until you hear back from us. Reporting time normally varies from one to six months.

We welcome and encourage simultaneous submissions and ask that, if accepted elsewhere, that you withdraw your piece from consideration.

We are so excited to read your work! Thank you for sharing your writing with the BR team.

Bellingham Review believes that, as an international literary journal, we have the responsibility to spotlight creative work that reflects diverse experiences, identities, and cultures. We are committed to uplifting the voices of those who have long been underrepresented. 

If you consider yourself to fit into this category, please submit for free to "Fee Waiver: Underrepresented Submissions in November." We are excited to support 50 fee waivers at BR, during the month of November. Among the many types of underrepresentation that exist in literature, we particularly encourage Black, Indigenous, People of Color writers, LGBTQIA+ writers, and disabled writers to submit. 

We do not discriminate on any basis, including race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, or disability. Anyone is welcome to submit as an underrepresented writer if they consider their experiences or identities to be underrepresented in the literary industry. Looking forward to reading your writing!