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Boulevard Magazine
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The finest fiction, poetry, and essays since 1985. Paying market. https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 8d
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 11d
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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 11d
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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 13d
Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to submit to our nonfiction contest!

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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 15d
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 17d
Five days remain to submit to our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers!

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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 17d
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 22d
"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-...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 22d
Emerging writers! Ten days remain to submit work to our nonfiction contest. The winning entry will receive $1000!

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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 25d
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · 29d
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 11
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 30
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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 6
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Sep 3
"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
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 30
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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 27
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 24
Our latest issue features a craft interview with author Chelsea T. Hicks. Read it online for free at www.boulevardmagazine.org/free-reading...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 20
"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-...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 14
Nonfiction writers! A reminder that our Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers is open until September 30. The winning entry will receive $1000!
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 13
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Aug 6
"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-...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 30
"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-...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 23
"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...
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Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social · Jul 13
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...
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