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The finest fiction, poetry, and essays since 1985. Paying market.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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...
Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit to our nonfiction contest!
See details here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
See details here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
nonfiction contest — Boulevard
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September 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit to our nonfiction contest!
See details here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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...
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...
Lotus Leaves — Boulevard
by Sammy Lê
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September 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"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...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
nonfiction contest — Boulevard
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September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Five days remain to submit to our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers!
www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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...
Read "The Disenfranchised" by Jude Whiley: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-d...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"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...
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-...
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-...
www.boulevardmagazine.org
September 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"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-...
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...
www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
nonfiction contest — Boulevard
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September 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Emerging writers! Ten days remain to submit work to our nonfiction contest. The winning entry will receive $1000!
www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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...
Read "Transition to Morningness," an essay by Riley Rockford: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/trans...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"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...
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...
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...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"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...
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...