SPRING 2019
EDITOR’S NOTE
It’s been a year since Bob Bausch spoke at the celebration launching Volume 32 of The Northern Virginia Review. Before reading from his latest book, he read his favorite passages from the new journal. After reading the concluding paragraph of one story, he asked the audience, “How many of you have ever read a story by Sherwood Anderson called “Death in the Woods”? I could put that paragraph in Anderson’s story where the woman is freezing to death and it would improve Sherwood Anderson’s work. That’s not an exaggeration.” And Bob meant it. (Read more . . .)
CONTEST WINNERS:
ROBERT BAUSCH FICTION PRIZE: Her Brother’s Apartment
POETRY PRIZE: The Wasp Nest
ART PRIZE: Self Portrait by Laura Ajami: