Boulevard Magazine

"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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit to our nonfiction contest!

See details here: www.boulevardmagazine.org/nonfiction-c...

Lotus Leaves — Boulevard by Sammy Lê

"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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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-...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

Emerging writers! Ten days remain to submit work to our nonfiction contest. The winning entry will receive $1000!

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"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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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...

Boulevard Craft Interview: Chelsea T. Hicks — Boulevard by Daniel J. Musgrave

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-...

To Believe in the Ubiquity of Animation — Boulevard by Mary Elizabeth Dubois

"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...

digital subscriptions — Boulevard Subscribe to Boulevard literary magazine are $12/year. 

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...

Boulevard Vol. 39, No. 1 (Winter 2025) — Boulevard This issue includes 2023 Fiction Contest winner Mary Elizabeth Dubois, 2023 Nonfiction Contest winner Phillip Barcio, and 2023 Poetry Contest winner Lucinda Trew. It also features a Boulevard Craft In...

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...

nonfiction contest — Boulevard

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 🌇

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The cover of Boulevard, featuring a painted self-portrait of a woman holding her chin in her hands behind some lit candles.

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!

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. 

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