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.
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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.
Let’s close out 2026 by slamming the door in the face of complacency, hand-wringing, and cynicism. We want work that sees the horrors of human creation and then channels that rage into positive action: community, decolonization, building a sustainable world for the planet and her inhabitants. Send us your poems, prose, and art which exemplify the idea that survival depends on togetherness. We love unexpected line endings and characters who pull others from the mire of oppression, pieces that plant sunflowers in fields of hopelessness and exemplify the superiority of radical kindness over being nice.
There is no fee to submit for this issue. We welcome fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3,000 words. You may submit up to three poems or microfictions of under 250 words each; please attach them all in one document. Please include your full name and the genre of your work in your cover letter. We read anonymously, so remove your name from your work. Boudin takes previously unpublished work only.
What makes your skin crawl? The little critter scuttling away when you turn on the light? The phantom itch on the back of your neck that you're almost certain is nothing? "Boo"din is looking for written and visual work that celebrates creepy crawlies and the quietly unsettling. Our team is crafting a Halloween issue filled with the worst many-legged horrors your mind can conjure. We are looking for pieces that embrace this fear in all its forms, from intimate encounters to nightmarish infestations, while capturing the suspense and unease they inspire.
This Halloween is a special issue, judged by Abbie Skinner, with prizing: $100 for first place, $50 for second, and $25 for third! Because of this, the issue's submission fee will be 3$, and we are limiting submissions to one per person with the normal three poems in a single document counting as a single submission. We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid submissions under 3,000 words. Please include your full name and the genre of your work in your cover letter. Though this is the Halloween issue, we will not accept work with gratuitous violence or gore. We are looking for the subtle, the creepy, and the unsettling. We have pushed back the deadline, and final submissions are now due no later than October 10th!