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 Department of Medicine at New York University 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 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 editorial staff includes Senior Fiction Editor Ronna Wineberg, Senior Nonfiction Editor Jerome Lowenstein, Fiction Editor Suzanne McConnell, Poetry Editor Corie Feiner, Managing Editor Stacy Bodziak and Publisher and cofounder Martin J. Blaser.

The Bellevue Literary Review hosts an annual writing competition. The 2009 competition was judged by Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosellen Brown and Natalie Angier. The judges for the 2010 competition are: Gail Godwin, Phillip Lopate and Tony Hoagland. Past judges of the BLR competitions have included Marie Howe, Rick Moody, Richard Selzer, Rafael Campo, Amy Hempel, Sherwin Nuland, Edward Hirsch, Ray Gonzalez, Abraham Verghese.

The Bellevue Literary Review holds biannual public readings at Bellevue Hospital, which feature authors reading from selected works.

Bellevue Literary Press is a sister organization of Bellevue Literary Review, founded in 2007 and located at Bellevue Hospital. As of April 2010, three years after its founding, it had only published about 21 titles, but including the Pulitzer Prize winning novel for 2010 Tinkers. Unusually, The New York Times failed to review the novel before the Pulitzer Prize was announced, noting that it was the first novel since A Confederacy of Dunces in 1981 to come from a small publisher and win that award.