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Boulevard Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4 (Winter 2024)
Boulevard Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4 (Winter 2024)
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This issue includes 2022 Fiction Contest winner Trent Lewin, and 2022 Nonfiction Contest winner Gabriel Rogers. It also features a Boulevard Craft Interview with Gus Moreno, a novel excerpt from Joyce Carol Oates, new fiction from Roy Parvin, Nick Otte, Mathew Goldberg, and Joshua Allen Griffith, new poetry from Nandini Dhar, Ellara Chumashkaeva, Tai Wei Guo, James Allen Hall, Otter Jung-Allen, Bryan D. Price, Michael Romary, Ellen Doré Watson, Caroline white, and translations of Saadi Youssef by Khaled Mattawa, and essays by John Dalton, Michael Bishop, Demetrius Buckley, Madeline Jones and Susan Sugai. Plus, a vivd oil on canvas painting by Song Watkins Park on the cover!

Boulevard Vol. 38, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 2023)
Boulevard Vol. 38, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring 2023)
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This issue includes all three contest winners: 2022 Poetry Contest winner Danielle Lemay, 2021 Fiction Contest winner Lacy Arnett Mayberry, and 2021 Nonfiction Contest winner Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell. It also features a Boulevard Craft Interview with Danielle Dutton, a symposium on appropriation in art, new fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, David Nikki Crouse, Brad Eddy, Kristen-Paige Madonia, and Alexandra Munck, new poetry from Emma DePanise, Auden Eagerton, Bob Hicok, Abbie Kiefer, Weijia Pan, Doug Ramspeck, JC Talamantez, and Yun Wei, and essays by Amy Mevorach, Rebecca Owen, and Jess Smith. Plus, a beautiful oil painting by Isabelle Roig on the cover!

Boulevard Vol. 37, Nos. 2 & 3 (Summer 2022)
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Boulevard Vol. 37, Nos. 2 & 3 (Summer 2022)
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This issue includes the winning poems from the 2021 Poetry Contest by Jennifer Conlon, a Boulevard Craft Interview with Joyce Carol Oates, new fiction from Michael Czyzniejewski, Willie Fitzgerald, Kelly Ann Jacobson, Stephanie Mullings, Elizabeth Stix, and Julian Zabalbeascoa, new poetry from Linette Marie Allen, Diedrick Brackens, Shutta Crum, Nicelle Davis, Jessica Dionne, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Bill Hollands, Betsy Johnson, Alicia Byrne Keane, Jayson Keery, James Lineberger, Alicia Ostriker, Alpay Ulku, Tianru Wang, and Joan Wickersham, and essays by Marianne Abel-Lipschutz, Adrian Acu, Heather Donovan, Barbara haas, Brandi Nicole Martin, K. B. Merritt, and Marcus Spiegel. Plus, a beautiful digital collage by Julia Terbrock on the cover!

Boulevard Vol. 37, No. 1 (Fall 2021)
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Boulevard Vol. 37, No. 1 (Fall 2021)
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This issue includes the winning story from the 2020 Short Fiction Contest by Seth Bockley, a Boulevard Craft Interview with Best Show host Tom Scharpling, new fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Melissa Chadburn, Angela Ma, Liwen Xu, and Roy Parvin, new poetry from Michaela Carter, Michael Hettich, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Brooke Sahni, and Alexandra Teague, and essays by Stephen Benz, Anne Kenner, and Jessica Weatherford. Plus, strikingly geometric cover art by Adam Hillman!

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Boulevard Vol. 36, Nos 2 & 3 (Spring 2021)
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This issue contains the winning poems from the 2020 Poetry Contest by Bryan Byrdlong, the winning essay from the 2020 Nonfiction Contest by Jonathan Wei, a craft interview with Emily St. John Mandel, new poetry by Adrian Matejka, Adedayo Agarau, JD Amick, Clare Banks, Lory Bedikian, Ava C. Cipri, Laura Davenport, Kwame Dawes, Rosalind Guy, Rachael Hershon, Lisa Low, Jane Morton, Dan Pinkerton, Esther Ra, Chet’la Sebree, and Marjorie Stelmach, new fiction by A. J. Bermudez, David Crouse, Giles Harvey, Megan Kakimoto, Lance Larsen, Andrew Porter, and Josh Rolnick, and new nonfiction by Salman Bhatti, Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Abby Seiff, and Jodie Noel Vinson, and beautiful cover art by Joanna Baltar Montaña.

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Boulevard Vol. 36, No. 1 (Fall 2020)
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This issue includes the winning story from the 2019 Short Fiction Contest by Sena Moon, a Boulevard Craft Interview featuring a conversation between J. Ryan Stradal and Beth Dooley, new poetry from Shara McCallum, Eloisa Amezcua, Molly Brodak, Doug Ramspeck, Katherine Smith, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Dara Elerath, and Jeannine Hall Gailey, new fiction from Ron Austin, Matthew Di Paoli, Christine Sneed, and Adam Roux, essays by Christine Spillson, Jodie Varon, Matt Jones, Brandon Parker, and Min Han, and a new symposium about re-examining history. Plus, fantastic and striking cover art by Xizi Liu!

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Boulevard Vol. 35, Nos. 2 & 3 (Spring 2020)
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This issue includes the winning essay from the 2019 Nonfiction Contest by Emi Nietfeld, the winning poems from the 2019 Poetry Contest by A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, a Boulevard Craft Interview featuring Téa Obreht, a translated collection of first-person accounts during the first days of the Wuhan quarantine, new fiction from Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Troy, Devin Thomas O’Shea, Jiesung Diana Park, and John Biguenet, new poetry from Mark Aiello, Leila Chatti, Diana M. Chien, Kristina Faust, W.J. Herbert, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Sarah Lilius, Amber McBride, Owen McLeod, Patrick Swaney, Laura Paul Watson, and John Sibley Williams, essays by Jan Bridgeford-Smith, James McGovern, Gwen Niekamp, M.H. Perry, and Robert Zaller, and a new symposium on the economics of writing in a free content era. Plus, fantastic and striking cover art by Larry Bommarito!

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Boulevard Vol. 35, No. 1 (Fall 2019)
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This issue includes the winning story from the 2018 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers by Claire Boyles, a Boulevard Craft Interview featuring Sarah Kendzior, Michael Czyzniejewski, Greg November, Hannah Williams, Michelle Richmond, Tim Fitts, Adam Brewer, J.T. Barbarese, Renée Branum, Andrew D. Cohen, Lorraine Hanlon Comanor, Clinton Crockett Peters, E. Kristin Anderson, Anne Barngrover, Brian Komei Dempster, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Susan Hutton, Miriam N. Kotzin, George Looney, Jane McGuffin, Rainie Oet, Laura Passin, Alejandro Pérez, Esteban Rodríguez, Stephanie Rogers, Rushi Vyas, and Corrie Williamson. Plus, fantastic and striking cover art by Alex Stoddard!

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Boulevard Vol. 34, Nos. 2 & 3 (Spring 2019)
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This issue includes work by Joyce Carol Oates, a Boulevard Craft Interview featuring Min Jin Lee, Joanna Klink, G.C. Waldrep, Robert Zaller, Dick Allen, Ruth Bardon, Grady Chambers, Bailey Cohen, Adam O. Davis, Alison Hutchcraft, Carter Smith, Nikki Wallschlaeger, David Cameron, Carol Ghiglieri, Jasmin Grimaldo, Karen Tucker, Amber Caron, Geoff Martin, Anittah Patrick, William Torrey, and Eric Miles Williamson, as well as the winning entry of the inaugural 2018 Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers “The Worldwide Roller Derby Convention” by Gabe Montesanti. Plus, fantastic and striking cover art by Miranda Sofroniou!

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Boulevard Vol. 33, No. 1 (Fall 2017)
Boulevard Vol. 33, No. 1 (Fall 2017)
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This issue features new work by Dilruba Ahmed, Howard Altmann, Angela Ball, Colin Fleming, Albert Goldbarth,  B. J. Hollars, Jenny Molberg, Joyce Carol Oates, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Joanna Solfrian, Chrstine Spillson, Mark Wagenaar, Jane O. Wayne, and many more writers, both established and emerging.  Also: Anastasia Selby's winning entry to the 2016 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers and a symposium on campus protests and free speach. Plus, dynamic cover art by Tony Philippou.

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Boulevard Vol. 34, No. 1 (Fall 2018)
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Boulevard No. 100 includes work by Weike Wang, a Boulevard Craft Interview featuring Jane Smiley, Hanif Abdurraqib, Carl Phillips, Beth Tornes, and Albert Goldbarth, Chana Kim, Ariel Saramandi, Meron Hadero, Rene Martinez, Shara McCallum, Daniel M. Mendoza, Phong Nguyen, Robert Zaller, B. J. Hollars, Stephen Dixon, Colin Fleming, Sanjena Sathian, Brandon R. Scrand, Daniel Stolar, George Williams, Joshua Aiken, Cynthia S. Hua, Karla K. Morton, Karthik Purushothaman, Sean Shearer, Joannie Strangeland, and Jessica Yuan as well as the 2018 Poetry Contest for Emerging Poets winning entry by Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez and the 2017 Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers winning story “Quarterway House” by Caitlin Campbell. Plus, fantastic and striking cover art by Tran Nguyen!

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Boulevard Vol. 33, Nos. 2 & 3 (Spring 2018)
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This issue debuts our craft interview feature with Nathan Englander; new work by J. T. Barbarese, John Dalton, Jessica Greenbaum, Shen Haobo translated by Liang Yujing, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Robbie Maakestad, Kirtan Nautiyal, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Padow, Morgan Parker, Sommer Schaefer, Floyd Skloot, Chelsea Wagenaar, and many more writers, both established and emerging. Also: Elizabeth Hoover’s winning entry to the 2017 Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers and fantastic and striking cover art by Rene Lynch.

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Boulevard Vol. 32, Nos. 2 & 3 (Spring 2017)
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This issue features new work by Kelly Cherry, Stephen Dixon, Bob Hicok, Gabrielle Hovendon, Joanna Klink, Erika Krouse, David Naimon, Joyce Carol Oates, Matthew Vollmer, Abdourahman Waberi, Ellen Doré Watson, and many more writers, both award-winning and emerging. Also: Stacey Walker's winning 2016 Poetry Contest entry, and a symposium on Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize with contributions by Adrian Matejka, Brigitte Leschhorn, Katie Moulton, Anis Shivani, Andrew Weinstein, and Robert Zaller.

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