guidelines — Boulevard Boulevard magazine's writers guidelines. Accepting submissions from November 1 to May 1.

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

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 ...

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!

Congratulations also to the runner-up “Overgrown” by Charlotte Sloan. Thank you to everyone who submitted!

A photo of nonfiction contest winner Annalisa Bolin wearing a black shirt.

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.

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. 

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

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. 

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

Congratulations also to our runner-up, Jon Wolf.

Inkyoo’s packet, along with selections from Jon Wolf’s packet, will appear in an upcoming issue this year.

Thank you to everyone who submitted!

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

Nikola — Boulevard by Yulia Zepp

"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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Literature Is Good: Roxana Crisólogo's "Esta masa triste y gris de arena" — Boulevard by Dana Delibovi

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...

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.

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...

Our lives are hard to know — Boulevard by Maya Muir

"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...

Animal Games — Boulevard by David Williamson

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...