Editorial Focus
Bellevue Literary Review is an award-winning literary journal that mines the connective tissue between illness, healing, and the arts. Through fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, BLR explores these universal conditions and life’s shared vulnerabilities.
Tips From the Editor
We seek character-driven fiction with original voices and strong settings. We do not publish genre fiction (romance, sci-fi, horror). While we are always interested in creative explorations in style, we do lean toward classic short stories.
We are looking for essays that reach beyond the standard ‘illness narrative’ to develop a topic in an engaging and original manner. Incorporate thoughtful and creative analysis that allows anecdotes to serve a larger purpose. (Please note that we do not publish graphic narratives, academic discourses, or works with footnotes.)
We encourage poems that are accessible to a wide audience. Characteristics we look for are vivid writing, strong narrative, and rendering the familiar new.