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.
Down here in Louisiana, February is a month of excess: Mardi Gras! Boudin is celebrating this year with our first microfiction contest. We are looking for work with a theme of EXCESS, but without an excess of words: 250 or less. The fewer the better!
NO FEE! The winner will receive a fun Mardi Gras goody bag.
Only one submission per person for this issue, please, and of course make sure it's not more than 250 words! The entries will be read by the Boudin staff and from their selections, Boudin editor Vallie Lynn Watson will choose the final winner from their selections, read anonymously.
Deadline/Cap: This contest will close on January 15 or when we have received 250 submissions.
Boudin takes previously unpublished work only. Please limit submissions to four issues per calendar year. McNeese alum should be separated from the University for at least five years before submitting to Boudin.