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 While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise.

Boulevard was founded in 1984 in New York City and incorporated in 1985 as a nonprofit by writer Richard Burgin. Its first issue, published January 2, 1986, featured fiction by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, poetry by Kenneth Koch, and interviews with renowned composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich and an essay on John Dos Passos and the Soviet Cinema. By its third issue in 1987, Boulevard had attained national bookstore distribution, which continues into the present.

Boulevard has published works by generations of important writers and critics, including Hanif Abdurraqib, John Ashbery, Ann Beattie, Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Jennifer Egan, Donald Hall, Alice Hoffman, David Mamet, Adrian Matejka, Emi Nietfeld, Joyce Carol Oates, Carl Phillips, Francine Prose, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sanjena Sathian, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, and others. Poet laureate Daniel Hoffman has called Boulevard “One of the half-dozen best literary journals.”

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Boulevard

$1,500 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press. 
Rules

  All entries must be submitted online by December 31 by midnight CST. 
  Entry fee is $18 for each individual story, with no limit per author, and includes a one-year subscription. 
  Manuscripts should be typed and double spaced.
  Cover sheets are not necessary. 
  Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but previously accepted or published work is ineligible.
  We accept works up to 8,000 words. 
  All entries will be considered for publication and for payment at our regular rates. 
  Entries will be judged by the editors of Boulevard. 
  No one editorially or financially affiliated with Boulevard can enter the contest.
  The winning story will be first announced on the website, traditionally during June, though occasionally earlier, and then published in the subsequent Fall or Spring issue of Boulevard.

 For complete guidelines.

Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers

$18 dollars for a packet of three poems. Fee includes one-year subscription to Boulevard.

The poems may be a sequence or unrelated

Boulevard Emerging Poets Contest

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.

Nonfiction--Research-Based Essays

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.

Fiction--General Submission

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.

Nonfiction--Personal Essays

Poetry--General Submission

$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/

Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets

$1,000 and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning essay  by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or  creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.

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