"That night, I got dressed in my trench coat and went out to the middle of town. The lights were buoyant and fresh, amazing slashes, amazing range. The moon was pinned against the skies like a cop’s badge." Read "Smear Frame (1992)" by Jasmine Ledesma: www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

Just one week remains to submit work to our general submissions categories!

"I saw the stark grace of leaves unfurled like hands outstretched in benediction." New on our site are three poems by Zoe Boyer: "The trees, my god," "Autumn Rings the Bell," and November Sixth. Read them here: www.boulevardmagazine.org

We close for submissions at midnight on May 1. Send us your work! www.boulevardmagazine.org/guidelines

We are pleased to announce that our latest issue is HERE! Featuring new fiction from David Nikki Crouse, a craft interview with Aria Aber, the winners of our nonfiction and poetry contests, and much more. Pick up your copy here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/print-subscr...

We are here at AWP! Our deputy editor Molly Harris is selling issues and subscriptions all week at table T118. Come say hello!

We're pleased to be co-hosting an AWP offsite reading with Bear Review and Laurel Review on Friday, March 6 at Max's Taphouse!

We are happy to announce the results of the 2025 Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers. We received many excellent entries this year, and the editors selected Annalisa Bolin’s essay “The Bones of the Ocean” as the winner.

NOW OPEN: Our Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers is accepting submissions until June 1! The winner will receive $1000, and all entries are considered for publication. Find more info and submission guidelines here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

NOW OPEN: Our Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers is accepting submissions until June 1! The winner will receive $1000, and all entries are considered for publication. Find more info and submission guidelines here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

We are pleased to announce that the winner of our 2025 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets is Inkyoo Lee!

"The unending grayness of this past winter, I must admit, made me quite homesick." Online now is "Nikola," the short fiction debut of Yulia Zepp. Read it for free at www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

Deadline extended! We are now accepting submissions to our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers through January 8. The winning entry will receive $1500. Head to the link in our bio to submit your work!

Tomorrow is the LAST day to submit work to our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers! boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...

Just three days remain to submit work to the Boulevard Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers! The winning entry will receive $1500. Check out our guidelines and submit: boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...

Our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is closing on December 31! Read our guidelines and submit: www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...

It's Giving Tuesday! Listen to Devin and consider making a tax-deductible donation to support the work we do: www.boulevardmagazine.org/donate

Our Short Fiction Contest is accepting submissions through December 31. Read our guidelines and submit! www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...

Here at Boulevard, we strongly believe that Literature is Good. In our series of the same name, we share a little bit about why we love the pieces that we've published. In this installment, read Dana Delibovi, poetry reader, on "This sad grey lump of sand:" www.boulevardmagazine.org/blvdrecs/lit...

Our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is open and accepting work until December 31. The winning entry will receive $1500. Read our guidelines and submit! www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...

"Do we aquiesce from enthusiasm or blackmail, estrogen or amour?" New on our site, read "Our lives are hard to know," a poem by Maya Muir: www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

"God, sometimes I still flinch when you see me naked. I want to believe you are not here to harm me." From our latest issue, read "we would rather be away from the body," a poem by Carrie Beyer: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/we-wo...

New story up at @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social ‘s Natural Bridge online. It’s about kids and parents and faith and convalescence sword wielding maniacs. Big thanks to bossman Bud Smith for his help on this one. www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!

We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!

"There was trouble, he heard, in the Senate, and with his father he couldn’t speak to." From our latest issue, read "Cathedral" by Colby Cotton: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/cathe...

"I don’t think there’s anything pathological about my interest in Thea’s life. In fact, quite a respectable hiatus of seven or eight months had passed before I absentmindedly typed her name in the Google search bar last night." Read "Such Lush, Lyrical Prose" by Zehra Nabi: bsky.app/profile/boul...

"I steal faces and keep them in the branches." From our latest issue, read "Childhood" and "It Comes to Me" by Luciana Jazmín Coronado, translated from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreese: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/child...

Gabriel Rogers' "68091" from our Winter 2024 issue has been listed as a Notable Essay of 2024 in this year's Best American Essays collection! Read the piece online at www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/68091

Congratulations to Boulevard contributor Trent Lewin, whose short story "The Reach" was honored as a Distinguished Story of 2024 in this year's Best American Short Stories Anthology! Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...

"Weeping women in us all. I spit Three times every day To keep the war from coming back." Read "For the Superstitious," a poem by Tiara Dinevska-McGuire: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/for-t...

"Time is constantly dwindling, the breadcrumbs slipping through fingers into oblivion. Time is just. Life is partisan. And life plays favorites." Read "A Critical Conversation with Moten and Glissant," an essay by Brandi Ocasio: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/a-cri...

Deadline extended! Our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers is now accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 7. Head here to read our guidelines and submit your work: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

Deadline extended! Our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers is now accepting submissions through Tuesday, October 7. Head here to read our guidelines and submit your work: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit to our nonfiction contest! See details here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

"soaring silent road over crescent fires, with violent love, this migrant love" Read "Lotus Leaves" by Sammy Lê for free on our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

Five days remain to submit to our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers! www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

"Before, I’d imagined a thousand tiny streaks of light crisscrossing the sky like scratches on a car bonnet. Instead, it appeared above like an angel, like how an angel would come down out of fire." Read "The Disenfranchised" by Jude Whiley: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-d...

"The city is all freeway and falling light, spitting my beloved back out long after sunset..." From our latest issue, read "Back From the Underworld," a poem by Anna Tomlinson: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/back-...

Emerging writers! Ten days remain to submit work to our nonfiction contest. The winning entry will receive $1000! www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

"All around you, the world has been offering itself, growing, fruiting, waiting to be consumed." Read "Transition to Morningness," an essay by Riley Rockford: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/trans...

"wagers—a murmuration of light / the ghostly glow of test tube votives..." From our latest issue, read "color follows light" by Lucinda Trew, winner of our 2023 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/color...

"The hunger strike, begun as moral opposition, became instead a de facto practice for teachers and their families, since no one was being paid." From our latest issue, read "El Esfuerzo," a work of short fiction by Emerson Henry: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/el-es...

Calling all nonfiction writers! Our nonfiction contest is closing on September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000! To learn more and to submit your work, visit www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

"The Story of America is just an idea; a malleable set of words in a 'make-work' project that took years and years to complete..." Read Devin Thomas O'Shea on "Lamps at High Noon," a long overlooked novel by St. Louis author Jack Balch: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/lamps...

"I have a friend who kills people. A friend who says I’ll see you in the summer —Inshallah." From our latest issue, read "Manhunt," a poem by Claressinka Anderson: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/manhunt

Calling all nonfiction writers! Our nonfiction contest is closing on September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000! To learn more and to submit your work, visit www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

"He’d never been so aware of other people, so aware of their breathing, their walking, living. And of the shocking strangeness that he could not simply step out of his life and into another." Read Cole Chamberlain's "Saints of Missouri:" www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/saint...

Our latest issue features a craft interview with author Chelsea T. Hicks. Read it online for free at www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

"Buses full of tourists search for the lost city in lost hats / that will protect them from the sun / or from themselves..." From our latest issue, read "This sad grey lump of sand" by Roxana Crisólogo, translated by Dr. Kim Jensen and Judith Santopietro: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/esta-...