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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
Find more info and submission guidelines here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest
poetry contest — Boulevard
$1,000 and publication awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press.
www.boulevardmagazine.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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
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
Find more info and submission guidelines here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest
poetry contest — Boulevard
$1,000 and publication awarded for the winning group of three poems by a poet who has not yet published a book of poetry with a nationally distributed press.
www.boulevardmagazine.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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
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!
January 22, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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...
Online now is "Nikola," the short fiction debut of Yulia Zepp. Read it for free at www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...
Nikola — Boulevard
by Yulia Zepp
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January 15, 2026 at 9:31 PM
"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...
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!
Head to the link in our bio to submit your work!
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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!
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...
short fiction contest — Boulevard
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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...
short fiction contest — Boulevard
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
boulevardmagazine.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
Read our guidelines and submit: www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...
short fiction contest — Boulevard
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
www.boulevardmagazine.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is closing on December 31!
Read our guidelines and submit: www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...
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
December 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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...
short fiction contest — Boulevard
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
www.boulevardmagazine.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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...
Literature Is Good: Roxana Crisólogo's "Esta masa triste y gris de arena" — Boulevard
by Dana Delibovi
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November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org/short-fictio...
short fiction contest — Boulevard
$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
www.boulevardmagazine.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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...
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...
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...
Our lives are hard to know — Boulevard
by Maya Muir
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November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"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...
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...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"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...
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...
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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...
Animal Games — Boulevard
by David Williamson
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November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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...
Reposted by Boulevard Magazine
We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!
We are now open for submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry!
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"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...
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...
Read "Such Lush, Lyrical Prose" by Zehra Nabi: bsky.app/profile/boul...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"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...
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...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org
October 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"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...
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
Read the piece online at www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/68091
October 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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
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...
Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...
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...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"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...
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...
Read "A Critical Conversation with Moten and Glissant," an essay by Brandi Ocasio: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/a-cri...
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October 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
"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...
Read "A Critical Conversation with Moten and Glissant," an essay by Brandi Ocasio: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/a-cri...
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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...
Head here to read our guidelines and submit your work: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
nonfiction contest — Boulevard
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October 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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...
Head here to read our guidelines and submit your work: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...