"The angels of a thousand bulbs / burn / about a man in a basement, / sleepless and alone." From our latest issue, read "Invisible Man," a poem by Bruce Bond: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/invis...
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We've extended our nonfiction contest deadline! Emerging writers, send us your work by midnight on Wednesday, October 7. www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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"Like many deals with the devil, this one begins with an email from my agent. A feature, based on an unpublished short story about a little-known civil rights activist turned monster hunter." Read "Africa, Land of Romance," a short story by Cathy Kisakye: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/afric...
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Just one week remains to send in work to our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers! www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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"When I open my eyes, the music has stopped. Twilight has settled in fully, and through the blank grid of suburbia sprawling around us, crickets have filled the playing, dotting night with the small color of their sound." Read "The Wheel" by G.H. Plaag: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-w...
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"Nothing’s ever really gone, mom told me when, at 12, I started using the internet. She meant be careful what you post." From our latest issue, read "The Cloud" by Weston Morrow: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-c...
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Our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers is OPEN and accepting work through September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000! See our guidelines and submit here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...
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"When I was four years old, I used to think that the entire world was a country called Iran." Read "Shadows on the Wall" by Mohammad Hakima, winner of our 2024 Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/shado...
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"On the 5 just outside of Coalinga the cloud rose from the highway to surround him in the air-conditioned safety of his automobile." From our latest issue, read "Two Major Events With Intermission," a work of short fiction by David Nikki Crouse: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/two-m...
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"The dead man touch’d me from the past. Well, he is dead, and where shall I find another? It takes years to train a man to love me." From our latest issue, read "Willow Song Sampling," a poem by Patrick Donnelly: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/willo...
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"I saw the earth as similar to the frightened person above it: raw and reckless and ripe for chaos. I imagine the earth as a body unhinged." From our latest issue, read "The Shaking of the Earth," an essay by Emily Weitzman: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-s...
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"I was eighteen, and my parents were being psychotic, so I moved to Albany to stay with this guy Donny from my World of Warcraft guild." Read Connor Greer's "Brad Jackson" in our latest print issue, or for free on our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...
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"When at last the Professor retired from the university he made elaborate plans to revisit the cities of Europe which he’d first discovered as a young Fulbright scholar forty years before." From our archives: revisit "Blue Guide" by Joyce Carol Oates. www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/blue-...
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"Shirley first came when I was seven, slithering through the window on the smell of burnt plastic." From our archives: read "Shirley," a work of short fiction by Hannah Williams. www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/shirley
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"When travelers ask what I write in the sand, I tell them I live inside the letters of your name." From our archives: read "Majnun" by Zeina Hashem Beck, after Qays Bin Al-Mulawwah. www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/majnun
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This summer, we're bringing you even more Boulevard! We're uploading pieces from our back issues to our website. With a digital subscription to Boulevard--$16 a year--you can have access to this expanding archive. Purchase a digital subscription here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/digital-subs...
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We are delighted to announce that the winning story for our Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers is "In America" by Sebastian Edward Bliss!
Our poetry contest is open for one more week, taking submissions until midnight on June 1. Send us your work for the chance to win $1000! www.boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest
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$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.
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"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...
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"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
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Since 1985, Boulevard's mission has been to publish the finest in contemporary fiction and poetry as well as definitive essays on the arts and culture, and to publish a diversity of writers who exhibi...
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We close for submissions at midnight on May 1. Send us your work! www.boulevardmagazine.org/guidelines
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Boulevard magazine's writers guidelines. Accepting submissions from November 1 to May 1.
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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...
Boulevard Vol. 39, Nos. 2 & 3 (Spring 2026) — Boulevard
This issue includes 2024 Nonfiction Contest winner Mohammad Hakima, and 2024 Poetry Contest winner Rachel Stempel. It also features a Boulevard Craft Interview with Aria Aber and a symposium on the ...
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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
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$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.
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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
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$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.
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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...
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