Lovely as a goose on a roof. Lit mag with print issues twice annually and a new issue online the first Friday of the month.

Booth publishes four titles of original literature on the first Friday of every month.

In addition, we publish two print issues yearly, usually in summer and winter.

Booth debuted in 2009. Our staff is comprised of students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler University MFA program.

Butler MFA students and alumni execute approximately 98% of Booth. Copy editing, web design, print issues, t-shirts and merch, and so on. We have incredible talent in our program and put it to work at Booth.

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Our staff is comprised of students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler University MFA program.

We typically see around 500-600 submissions per month, or close to 20 per day. Of these we accept around 50 titles per year, or approximately 1%.

At least 95% of the material we publish comes from blind submissions.

A: From September to March, we typically receive around 3,000 submissions, around 15 per day. 

Benjamin Davis (he/him) has stories and poems in several literary journals, including Wigleaf, Booth, Moon City Press, and Slippery Elm Press. His poem collection, The King of FU (Nada Blank, 2018), was such a smashing success it shocked the indie press who printed it into an early grave. He is now writing his first six novels. Find him on Chill Subs.


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Peter Mason is a Bi+ poet from Rochester, NY currently living in the Twin Cities area. He is the Assistant Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, and Assistant Poetry Editor of Copihue Poetry. Peter is a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a recipient of the inaugural C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, and an Artists 360 Grant from the Mid America Arts Alliance. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Booth, Vinyl Poetry & Prose, The Journal, and elsewhere.

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Queer Awakening with Wolf Spider

Inside the Last Cinnamon Raisin Bagel

Broken Sonnet for the Winter I Worked as a Roofer

In his loops & echo & reverb, we can hear ourselves: the queer time of his music is about more than intention—it’s about reception. Every time—the hundreds of times—I put my headphones on and play World of Echo, hear Arthur’s voice wash over me...

Cover Songs: On Arthur Russell, Queer Obsession, and Failure

I Star it Out

Peaches

"After a Burial"

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