From the Editors

The five winners of the 2019 Voorheesville Short Story Contest were awarded their certificates and monetary awards at a brief ceremony today at Clayton A. […]

The winners of the Voorheesville Short Story Contest have been announced! Judges Rone Shavers, Kenyatta JP Garcia, and Laurin Jefferson, all either professional writers or […]

Support the Blackbird Review! This December, we are offering up three ways for you to get a look at the work of Voorheesville’s creative writers […]

The winners of the 2018 Voorheesville Short Story Contest have been selected! They are: First Prize ($500)- Olivia Barringer for her story “The Scars”  Second […]

Acclaimed YA and Children’s writer Leslie Connor will be the guest writer at this year’s Cole Summer Writers Institute! The Institute, running July 9-13, 2018, […]

The fourth annual Voorheesville Short Story Contest has been announced. Students from Clayton A. Bouton High School in grades eleven and twelve are invited to […]

Madeline Conroy, class of 2016, has had her ten word story selected as one of eight finalists in the Gotham Writers “A Very Short Story […]

 Welcome to 2017-2018 The new school year is upon us and the Blackbird Review is open for business! We are now accepting submissions of poetry, […]

  From the Cole Summer Writers Institute: Niskayuna writer Tom Swyers has agreed to join the writers at the Cole Summer Writers Institute 2017! Mr. […]

On April 3, nine members of the Blackbird Review staff attended a Minds-On Workshop at the Carey Institute for Global Good. The topic of the […]