Western’s ‘Bellingham Review’ to Release Issue #72 This Spring

Western Washington University’s literary journal, the Bellingham Review, will release its next issue, #72, this spring.

The new issue will mark a change in direction for the Review. Susanne Paola Antonetta, the Review’s new editor-in-chief, has introduced many new features and goals.

The Review will feature a new hybrid section of writing made up of authors who write blended elements of poetry and prose to make new genres. The Bellingham Review will become one of the few literary journals that publish hybrid work as separate from the traditional genres (poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction) to give hybridity equal status.

The other section being introduced this issue features solely Hong Kong writers.  Antonetta has been soliciting these writers through her work as a faculty member at City University in Hong Kong. The works published in this section deal directly with the Occupy Hong Kong movement – which took several cues from the American Occupy Movement – and highlights this event through the voices of those who experienced it.  The section also moves the journal away from being solely a Pacific Northwest publication to one that highlights other voices and styles that emerge from other cultures.

The Bellingham Review will still maintain their mission of publishing literature of palpable quality.

For more information, contact Julia Hands, the Bellingham Review’s assistant managing editor, at handsj@students.wwu.edu