The deadline to submit to our annual contest is EXTENDED to May 2nd, 2024. If you haven’t submitted yet, you still have time! We’re particularly interested in seeing more Visual Poetry pieces. Submit at the link below! …allianceofgainesville.submittable.com/submit

“For this editor, there are very few things that are ‘automatic no’s.’” For this week’s blog post, Stephanie Seguin reflects on Sue Hann’s “Portrait and Punctum” honorable mention piece, as well as her own editorial preferences. Link to read in our bio :)

This week’s blog post dives into Haley Winan’s award-winning formal poem “Burning Haibun at The Creek” from our 2023 contest. REMINDER: May 2nd is the last day to submit to our annual contest! Link to our submittable page (as well as to read this blog post) is in our bio.

Here's to another great submission period! Thanks to all who shared your work, you will know the final decision by early June and if you are an Award winner or Honorable Mention soon after.

While our editorial team works hard to assemble the 2024 Bacopa Literary Review Journal, we wanted to thank all our contributors and give a big congratulations to our contest prize winners! Mandira Pattnaik Maris Bounds

Our submissions period opens next month! In preparation, we’re back to posting our weekly blogs. This week features the letter from the Editor in Chief that introduced our 2024 edition of Bacopa Literary Review. You can read this & purchase a copy at the link in our bio.

This week, our Managing Editor gives you a run down of how the submissions process works from their perspective. You can read this at the link in bio. We are excited for the submissions period to open so soon (3/3/25), keep a look out for when the submissions link goes LIVE.

Submissions are open NOW! Submit at the link in our bio, this period will be open until May 5, 2025. Members of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) submit for free. We hope to read your work soon! …allianceofgainesville.submittable.com/submit

Thank you to Marisca Pichette for writing this week's blog post about her writing process, reflecting on their 2 pieces published in the 2022 & 2024 editions of our journal. If you’re a past contributor and want to write a post for our blog, please see the form in our bio!

Thank you to all the contributors who have been sending in blog posts! This week, 2024 Creative Nonfiction Contributor Joanna Baxter describes her experience learning to have more patience as she writes. Find out more at the blog post linked in our bio.

This week, we have a blog post from Bacopa 2024 Poetry Contributor Eniola Abdulroqeeb Arowolo reflecting on his piece “Sunrise in Future Goma without Roaming Bullets.” We, too, must keep hoping. Read at his thoughtful reflection at the link below. …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/reflec…

This week, read up on how Bacopa 2024 Flash Fiction Contributor Mandira Pattnaik disguised distress in her Honorable Mention piece “Revolver Rita First Look.” Check it out at the link below …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-dis…

This week, check out the link in bio to read our Poetry Co-Editor Grayson May’s thoughts about free verse poetry and what they’re looking for in submitted pieces. You still have until May 5th to submit! …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/playin…

Wendy Thornton, this year’s Fiction Editor, shares her criteria for accepting pieces for Bacopa Literary Review’s 2025 contest. You still have until May 5th, 2025 to submit! Check out the link below to read this week’s latest blog post. …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/fictio…

K. S. Dearsley shares insight about the importance of daydreaming in her writing process in this week’s blog post. We hope it inspires you to let your mind wander and to submit those ideas to our annual literary contest, which will be open until 5/5/25! …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/floati…

This week, Bacopa Literary Review Editor Stephanie Seguin informs our readers of what she looks for when reading Creative Nonfiction submissions. Read it at the link in bio and remember to submit your piece by 5/5/25! …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/let-me…

Bacopa Literary Review’s DEADLINE IS EXTENDED until June 1st, 2025 for our annual writing contest! Submit at the link in bio in one of our five categories: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Formal Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, or Visual Poetry. $3 fee to submit. …allianceofgainesville.submittable.com/submit

Susan Ward Mickelberry, Bacopa’s 2025 Formal Poetry Editor, shares her thoughts about the category and what she looks for. Read at the link below and remember, there’s only a few weeks to submit your work to this year’s contest! …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/though…

This week, Oliver Keyhani provides us with an example of Visual Poetry—a piece titled “xwhy.” You can view this as well as his previous blog post about Visual Poetry at the link in bio. REMINDER: submissions are open until June 1st! …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/visual…

Thank you to everyone who submitted to our annual contest! In this week’s blog post, Bacopa Managing Editor T. Walters shares how their perspective around submitting their work changed when they joined this editorial board. Read at the link below: …iteraryrevieweditorsblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-pers…