The McNeese Review,

Boudin: The Spicy Online Cousin of The McNeese Review is a monthly online literary magazine that features fiction, poetry, CNF, and visual arts.

Boudin, the Spicy Online Cousin of The McNeese Review, features fiction and poetry, but welcomes hybrids and other forms of creative work. Recent issues have featured Angela Ball, Michael Czyzniejewski, Michael Martone, Sherrie Flick, Meg Pokrass, Grant Faulkner, and Lee Upton.  

In all genres, we are particularly interested in seeing work from women, people of color, LGBTQ writers, non-binary writers, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups.

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Submitting to Boudin
No material published in Boudin may be reprinted or reproduced, in whole or in part, without the permission of the authors. Writers retain all rights to their work. We ask only that Boudin be credited with first publication. Unfortunately, we are not a paying market; contributors to Boudin will receive our thanks and the promise that we’ll promote your work.

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We welcome all forms/genres and form/genre-mixing experimental work.

We do not accept multiple submissions from the same writer within a reading period.

Be aware that we are not impressed with submissions that fail to uphold respect for marginalized groups of any kind. Additionally, we are not interested in work that hinges on shock value alone.

https://boudin.submittable.com/submit/318478/2025-boudin-flash-fiction-chapbook-contest-final-judge-roxane-gay

2025 Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest

Final judge: Roxane Gay

Deadline: May 15th, 2025 

Prizes: The winner will receive $1,000, 25 author copies, an author-signing at AWP 2026, inclusion of one or more pieces in The McNeese Review’s 2026 issue, promotion in monthly issues of Boudin (“the spicy online cousin of The McNeese Review”), and a three-year subscription to The McNeese Review. The winning manuscript will be published as a special issue of The McNeese Review and distributed by TRP: The University Press of SHSU.
Fee: $15

Manuscript details: 25-40 manuscript pages of flash fiction (no more than one piece per page).

2025 Boudin Flash Fiction Chapbook Contest (Final Judge: Roxane Gay)

Blooms in Dusk--April (Guest Editor Jade Turner) 

Ahh, Spring. April is a marker that the Spring season is in full swing, and as greeting cards tend to remind us, Spring is for new beginnings; for hope; for renewal. Although uplifting, these positive associations with the season are, in themselves, romanticized ideals. This April's issue is interested in pieces that diverge from the typical images of a hopeful, shining Spring and self, and instead, turn toward exploring and expressing that which the season inherently shuns and attempts to sanitize with its annual appearance. Think of this issue as a call to resurrect the suppressed self. Pieces can touch on any aesthetic or form as they give voice to the stifled feelings or impulses that withstand that sanitization. Instead of inhaling the refreshing air of Spring, let us take a moment to rebelliously hold our breath, then inhale the sinking feeling in the air. After all, things grow in the dark, too.  

Deadline 3/1/25. No fee!

Blooms in Dusk--April (Guest Editor: Jade Turner)

Immigration and Displacement–May (Guest Editor: Leah Joseph)

Whether it is from your childhood or one you built yourself, there is truly no place like home. But home is often a bittersweet memory for those who have been forced to leave. For our May issue, Boudin is looking for poetry, CNF, fiction, and visual artwork about displacement with a focus on immigration. We're particularly interested in the visceral emotions that come with the rediscovery, recollection, or loss of home. 

Deadline April 25th, 2025. No fee! Aim to keep the fiction/CNF/hybrids/visual artwork under 5,000 or so words. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words).

Mark Hendrickson is a poet who recently relocated to the Des Moines area.  His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Synkroniciti, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Honeyguide, Dark Onus Lit, and Swing.  Before becoming a poet, Mark worked for many years as a mental health technician in a locked psychiatric unit.  He has advanced degrees in Music, Health Information Management, and Marriage & Family Therapy.  Visit his website at: www.markhendricksonpoetry.com.

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Mark Hendrickson (he/him/his) is a poet and writer in the Des Moines area. He worked for many years as a mental health technician in a locked psychiatric unit. Mark loves owls, mythology, micro fiction, his husband, and his cat. Connect with him @MarkHPoetry or on his website: www.markhendricksonpoetry.com 

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