Monday, April 7, 2025

Playing Tennis Without a Net: The Formless Form of Free Verse

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By Bacopa Literary Review 2025 Poetry Co-Editor Grayson May What is free verse? Certainly, free verse does not mean "without structure ...
Monday, March 31, 2025

On Disguising Distress

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By Bacopa Literary Review 2024 Flash Fiction Honorable Mention Mandira Pattnaik I think it is easy to imagine violence these days, tougher t...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Reflections behind "Sunrise in Future Goma Without Roaming Bullets"

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By Bacopa Literary Review  2024 Free Verse Poetry Honorable Mention Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo  Over the last few years, the world has been ...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Learning to Slow Down

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By Bacopa Literary Review 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contributor Joanna Baxter I move through life like I’m driving on the freeway. I trail r...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Sowing the Hills with Bones

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By Bacopa Literary Review 2022 & 2024 Contributor Marisca Pichette I’ll be the first to admit that my writing doesn’t like to behave. Of...
Monday, February 24, 2025

An Overview of the Submissions Process

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By Bacopa Literary Review Managing Editor T. Walters At Bacopa Literary Review , we strive to include as many voices from as many different...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Our 2025 Editorial Team

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We at Bacopa Literary Review are excited   to introduce a talented and varied team Editor in Chief J.N. Fishhawk is a poet and freelance wr...
Monday, February 17, 2025

2024 Bacopa Literary Review Letter From the Editor

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By Bacopa Literary Review Editor in Chief J. N. Fishhawk Our lives flower and pass. Only robust works of the imagination live in eternity, ...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Bacopa Literary Review 2024 Contest Prizewinners

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FICTION AWARD:  “Museum of Lota Smith” by Wilson R. M. Taylor Wilson R. M. Taylor is a poet and writer. His work appears in Every Day Ficti...
Monday, April 29, 2024

A Reflection on Haley Winan's "Burning Haibun at The Creek"

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By Bacopa Literary Review Poetry Co-Editor Oliver Keyhani To walk through your dead self is no easy feat. Haley Winans gives us a personal e...
Monday, April 22, 2024

An Interview with Bacopa 2023 Fiction Honorable Mention Emilee Prado

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By Bacopa Literary Review Fiction Editor Alec Kissoondyal Emilee Prado's brilliant use of contrast is immediately evident in her story,...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

A Reflection on an Editor's Preferences

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By Bacopa Literary Review  Creative Nonfiction Editor Stephanie Seguin For this editor, there are very few things that are “automatic no’s” ...
Monday, April 8, 2024

A meditation on Sara Adams’s “1040A”

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By Bacopa Literary Review 2023 Poetry Co-Editor Reinfred Addo This piece, “1040A” by Sara Adams, is very understated. It’s not very ‘artsy’-...
Monday, April 1, 2024

Love, Laughs and Pastries: A Reflection on the 2023 Humor Prizewinner

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By 2023 Bacopa Creative Nonfiction Editor Stephanie Seguin The other day I was in Trader Joe’s. Part of the feature display was a neat stack...
Monday, March 25, 2024

An interview with Bacopa 2023 Fiction Prizewinner Lisa Isaac

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By Bacopa Literary Review Fiction Editor Alec Kissoondyal Lisa Isaac's short story "In the Red" brought me along for a charact...