Boulevard strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise. If you have practiced your craft and your work is the best it can be, send it to Boulevard.
To get a feel for style, content, quality, and form of the work we publish try a sample issue or subscription.
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Accepting submissions from November 1 to May 1
- No email submissions will be read.
- There is a $3 fee to submit online; there is no fee to submit by post.
- We allow simultaneous submissions, but please immediately withdraw work that has been accepted elsewhere.
- We accept multiple submissions, but please wait a reasonable time (at least one month) between entries.
- Authors retain rights to their work from the time of publication in Boulevard.
- Work submitted must be previously unpublished, both in print and online.
- Cover letters with previous credits are not required, though always appreciated. Let us know if this would be your debut publication.
- Our average response time is four months. Please do not query before then.
- Send only complete, fully proofread work. We will not consider revisions--this is too difficult administratively for our small staff.
- Please use a font other than Courier--it hurts our eyes!
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$1,000 and publication in Boulevard 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.
Rules
- All entries must be submitted online by midnight CT June 1.
- Entry fee is $18 per group of three poems and $18 for each additional group. Fee includes a one-year subscription.
- Author's name, address, and telephone number, in addition to the titles of the three poems, should appear on the first page.
- Cover sheets are not necessary.
- No manuscripts will be returned.
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.
- The poems may be a sequence or unrelated.
- All entries will be considered for publication and for payment at our regular rates.
- Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard magazine.
- No one editorially or financially affiliated with Boulevard can enter the contest.
- The winning poems will be first announced on the website and then published in the following spring issue of Boulevard.
For complete guidelines: https://boulevardmagazine.org/poetry-contest/
We accept fiction works up to 8,000 words.
We do not accept science fiction, erotica, westerns, horror, romance, or children stories.
We pay $100-$300 (sometimes higher) for accepted work.
- We accept nonfiction works up to 8,000 words.
- For nonfiction works without any element of research or reportage, please submit under the "Nonfiction--Personal Essays."
- We pay $100-$300 (sometimes higher) for accepted work.
- We accept nonfiction works up to 8,000 words.
- For nonfiction works with any element of research or reportage, please submit under the "Nonfiction--Research-Based Essays."
- We pay $100-$300 (sometimes higher) for accepted work.
- We accept poems of up to 200 lines.
We do not accept light verse.
We pay $50-$250 (sometimes higher) for accepted work.- Please submit poems together in a single document.
- Submit no more than five poems at a time.
POETRY
Questions? Email us at editors@boulevardmagazine.org