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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-...

Nonfiction writers! A reminder that our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers is open until September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000!

"Beside the lone road that drifted toward the highway like smoke, home wasn’t connected to anything resembling the future or the past." Read "Paradiso," a short story by Anthony Yarbrough, online on our site now: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/parad...

"What could any man take / from me now? Woman Rodentia, I have cracked / my teeth on the fence." From our latest issue, read "They Tell Me My Three-Year-Old Will Break Hearts One Day," a poem by Kindall Fredricks: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/they-...

"What do you do when a place you once called home is something different now?" Read "Fort Bragg: A Love Letter and an Elegy," an essay by Damieka Thomas, online now at www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/fort-...

"The page translated a single phrase from the made-up language into English: I wake to find everyone gone... I decided the story began there." Read "To Believe in the Ubiquity of Animation" by Mary Elizabeth Dubois for FREE online at www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...

Pieces from our new issue will be going online soon for our digital subscribers! Sign up now for just $16 to access our latest published pieces and a back catalog of some of the finest writing around: www.boulevardmagazine.org/digital-subs...

If you haven't yet picked up a copy of our latest issue, might we suggest you do? Featuring new fiction from Jude Whiley, nonfiction from Riley Rockford, and poetry by Sammy Lê, all for the low low price of $10. Purchase your copy here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/print-subscr...

We are now OPEN for submissions to our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers! www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

new essay in the latest @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social on Jack Balch's proletarian St. Louis novel, 🌇 Lamps At High Noon 🌇 www.boulevardmagazine.org/print-subscr...

The newest issue of Boulevard is HERE! Featuring Fiction Contest winner Mary Elizabeth Dubois, a craft interview with Chelsea T. Hicks, new nonfiction by Devin Thomas O'Shea, and more! Plus, striking cover art by August Lamm. Pick up your copy at the link in our bio!

Emerging poets! If you missed your chance to submit work to our poetry contest, do not fear! We have extended the deadline by one week. Click here to read our guidelines and submit your work: www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

Submissions to our poetry contest close tonight at midnight! www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit work to our poetry contest! The winning entry will receive $1000! www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

Emerging poets! Our Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers, with a winning prize of $1000, closes in ONE WEEK! Send us your work! www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest

We are pleased to announce "Children of the Revolution" by Mark George as winner of our 2024 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers!

Calling all emerging poets! Don't forget to submit to our poetry contest closing on June 1. The winning entry will receive $1000! www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest