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.
Kaleidoscope–September (Guest/Associate Editor: Taryn White)
Made out of paper and mirrors, kaleidoscopes are often viewed as simple children’s toys. Though the object itself is not complex, kaleidoscopes create beautiful, unique patterns that will never be replicated again. This September, Boudin is looking to create our own kaleidoscope of short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, and artwork. We are looking for work that explores unique perspectives like those which are created by kaleidoscopes. We want your best work that turns seemingly simple mechanisms on their heads to create a complex and beautiful product. Send us your most distinctive, colorful, and unrepeatable work for Boudin’s very own Kaleidoscope this fall.
No Fee! Fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3,000. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words). We are also open for visual art. Please indicate the genre of your submission in your cover letter upon submission. Submissions are limited to four issues per calendar year. Previously unpublished work only, please!
Tick…Tick…Tick…
That’s the sound of your time running out to submit to our annual Halloween issue of Boo-din! Whether a clock, metronome, or infamous telltale heart, the incessant reminder of precious seconds flying by locks readers into a state of suspension. This spooky season, we are looking for your best horror and speculative stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and artwork. In the spirit of Halloween, Abbie Skinner will judge submissions and award the Skinner Prize to one winner. The prize includes top placement in the issue, special mention of the prize, a broadside, and a social media post about the winning piece.
All submissions should include concepts of time as a significant plot point or symbol. We are looking for horror and speculative work, but we will not accept anything overly graphic or violent.
No Fee! Fiction/CNF/hybrid submissions under 3,000. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words). We are also open for visual art. Please indicate the genre of your submission in your cover letter upon submission. Submissions are limited to four issues per calendar year. Previously unpublished work only, please!