Boudin: The Spicy Online Cousin of The McNeese Review
Boudin, the Spicy Online Cousin ofThe 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. Read more here.
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.
We encourage you to simultaneously submit your work while it’s under consideration at Boudin. If your submission is accepted by another publication, please withdraw your work via Submittable.
Please only submit original work. Let us know if your writing borrows from or quotes another writer.
Please indicate the genre of your submission in your cover letter (fiction, CNF, poetry, visual art).
Please limit your submissions to four issues per calendar year.
McNeese State University students and employees must be separated from the university for at least three years to qualify to submit to Boudin.
We are proud members of CLMP!
The McNeese Review Issue 61 (2024) is available for purchase! Back issues, as well as 2-Year, 3-Year, & 5-Year Subscriptions, are also available.
Do you hear those excited tails wagging? It’s time for Boudin’s annual pet writing contest! We want your best fiction about felines, poems about parakeets, creative nonfiction about camels, micros about manatees, and artwork about aardvarks. Invite the whole zoo! Man’s best friend takes many shapes and sizes, and we want to read all about yours no matter how many legs, tails, ears, or eyes they may have.
There is a $3 fee to submit. All proceeds will be donated to Lake Charles' animal shelters, Hobo Hotel for Cats and Do Good Dogs. This contest will be judged by our 2025 winner and runner-up, Tara Flaherty Guy and Robin Michel. The 2026 winner and runner-up will, if they would like to, serve as judges for our 2027 contest. Our deadline for submission is March 25.
Fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3,000 words. You may submit up to three poems/flash fictions on the same document. We are also open for visual art. You may submit more than once but will have to pay an entry fee for each new submission. Please include your full name and the genre of your work in the submitted document. Boudin takes previously unpublished work only.