We are happy to announce the results of the 2020 Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers.
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We are happy to announce the results of the 2020 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets
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We are pleased to announce our 2020 Pushcart nominations.
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Richard Burgin, noted American writer, composer, critic, academic, and founding editor of the award-winning literary magazine Boulevard, passed away on Oct. 22 in his home in Clayton, Missouri, after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 73.
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This is an interview with Janée J. Baugher, author of The Ekphrastic Writer: Creating Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction (McFarland, 2020) conducted by Griffin Reed, Boulevard Assistant Managing Editor, in July 2020.
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What is a little known fact or interpretation of a piece of history that totally changes our commonly accepted version of events?
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We are excited to announce the winner of the 2019 Short Fiction Contest…
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In our spring audio launch, Boulevard talks craft Téa Obreht and the first thee days of the Wuhan Quarantine with Li Zixin, Mary Troy and Emi Nietfeld read and then discuss their works.
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In a society where everything is content (e.g. a novel, a film, a tweet) and much of that content is created for no pay, what are the economics of writing?
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I picked up John O’Hara’s BUtterfield 8 from the free “library” at my therapist’s waiting room.
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Faber’s work throughout The Book of Strange New Things gives literary readers a taste of science-fiction…
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Emily St. John Mandel has given readers a new way to see end-of-the-world novels.
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Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering combines addiction memoir with a brief history of contemporary alcoholism’s evolving place in the culture…
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In the early stages of drafting my essay, “The Worldwide Roller Derby Convention,” I tried to conceal the fact that I had attended RollerCon while recovering from a broken leg.
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On an unassuming beige metal cart in the break room of an American Red Cross facility, sandwiched between the soundtrack for Mission Impossible II and, even more strange, a collection of T.C. Boyle short stories (The Tortilla Curtain maybe?), Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus stood out
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One hundred is a kind of magical number equally shunned and celebrated. It’s the number associated with extreme old age but also with total success.
Of course, I was idealistic and somewhat naive when I invited several literary New York friends to discuss my idea for a new magazine in the late summer of 1984. When we first began discussing what kind of literary magazine we wanted Boulevard to be, no one thought that we ever had it 100 percent right. Far from it. The meeting was full of a sound and fury, and no one was really sure what we wanted it to signify. Gradually some principles emerged….
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