Bacopa Literary Review Editors' Blog

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Fiction contributor David Partington My story "The Healing WAVE" is a coming together of two sepa...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Prose Poetry contributor Danae Younge I remember sitting on my living room couch at around 1:00 AM, looking...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Fiction contributor Scott Ragland I was inspired to write "After the Harvest" after hearing an NPR...

 by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Poetry contributor Frederick Livingston Over the course of several weeks in late winter, I noticed the ap...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Poetry contributor M. Cynthia Cheung The Eyrbyggja Saga survives in fragmentary manuscripts written in Old ...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Fiction contributor Elizabeth Christopher I started writing "Dream Catcher" a couple of months int...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2022 Poetry contributor Helen Bournas-Ney In the first year of the pandemic, before there were vaccines and t...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Fiction contributor Shuly Xóchitl Cawood I never know where a story will go when I sit down to write. All I...

 We're excited at Bacopa Literary Review to introduce a talented and varied team Editor-in-Chief J.N. Fishhawk is a poet and freelance ...

by Bacopa Literary Review Fiction contributor William Nuessle Jessie tipped her gauntleted hand carefully so the peregrine falcon would ste...

 by 2021 Poetry contributor Carolyn Martin Stories from National Geographic have often inspired my poems including the one published in the...

 by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Creative Nonfiction contributor Jennifer Lang "In Front of the Full-Length Mirror" was many versi...

 by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 poetry contributor Megan Wildhood " Oh. There Is No Going Back " came to me in an instant, nearly...

 by 2021 Fiction First Prize winner Tomas Baiza I've loved hummingbirds ever since I was a child. I was never obsessed with them, but ...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 contributor Mandira Pattnaik When I was asked to write what led to my fiction piece "Box," I reall...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Poetry contributor, Patrick Cabello Hansel I wrote " Dying Back " after several days of walking t...

by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 contributor Jessica Barksdale My poem, "Disagreeing with Gandhi" emerged from an online writing wor...

 by Bacopa Literary Review 2021 Poetry Second Prize winner Shoshauna Shy When I began the poem "Key Lime Pie," I had no inkling o...

 by Bacopa Literary Review Associate Editor Mary Bast ". . . realism was the preferred mode of twentieth-century modernism. By releg...

by Associate Editor Mary Bast Blake Kilgore 's "Fluttering Bones of the Fireless Serpent" (below) published in Bacopa Literary...

 by Creative Nonfiction Editor Stephanie Seguin Adam Knight's "Little Bird" in Bacopa Literary Review 2021 is a tender story o...

I love the stars because they flicker. I love the stars because they recede. I love the stars because they trace perfect circles if you plan...

  by Creative Nonfiction Editor Stephanie Seguin A beautiful narrative arc in a very short space When reading through submissions for creat...

  by Associate Editor Mary Bast We've awarded several prizes to fabulous poet Carolyne Wright for her contributions to Bacopa Literary ...

POETRY (Editor J.N. Fishhawk) First Prize: Shana Ross, "If Betelgeuse Explodes I Will Be Sad" Second Prize: Shoshauna Shy, "...