Bellevue Literary Review
Bellevue Literary Review is a literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry about the human body, illness, health and healing. The Bellevue Literary Review is based in Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the United States, and has been published by the Division of Medical Humanities in the Department of Medicine at NYU School of Medicine since 2001. Selections from the Bellevue Literary Review have been reprinted in the Pushcart Prize anthology, and have appeared on the notable lists of The Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.
The Bellevue Literary Review has published the works of Celeste Ng, Leslie Jamison, Abraham Verghese, Amy Hempel, Rachel Hadas, Francine Prose, Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Eamon Grennan, Julia Alvarez, Rick Moody, Hal Sirowitz, Charles Barber, Peter Selgin, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dixon, Virgil Suarez, Sheila Kohler, and Jacob M. Appel.
Danielle Ofri is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of the Bellevue Literary Review. The Managing Editor is Stacy Bodziak. Editorial staff includes Senior Fiction Editor Ronna Wineberg, Senior Nonfiction Editor Jerome Lowenstein, Fiction Editor Suzanne McConnell, Poetry Editor Jen Hyde, Associate Editor Kate Falvey, Assistant Poetry Editor Sarah Sala, Assistant Fiction Editors Barbara Daddino and Lauralee Leonard and along with Publisher David Oshinsky.
The Bellevue Literary Review hosts an annual writing competition. Judges of the BLR competitions have included Sheri Fink, Geraldine Brooks, Ha Jin, Francine Prose, Marie Howe, Paul Harding, Rachel Hadas, Anne Fadiman, Chang Rae-Lee, Nathan Englander, Helen Benedict, Mark Doty, Jane Smiley, Mary Roach, Rick Moody, Richard Selzer, Rafael Campo, Amy Hempel, Sherwin Nuland, Edward Hirsch, Ray Gonzalez, Abraham Verghese, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosellen Brown, Natalie Angier, Gail Godwin, and Phillip Lopate.
The Bellevue Literary Review holds free public readings every spring at Bellevue Hospital, featuring authors reading from selected works. In the fall, it hosts its esteemed "Off the Page" performance series with actors giving dramatic readings from the journal.
The Bellevue Literary Review offers free study guides and reading group guides on topics of Aging, Multiculturalism, Disability, Infectious Disease, as well as a general discussion guide for its anthology, "The Best of The Bellevue Literary Review."
Selections of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction] are available free to the reading public on the BLR website.
