Submitting to Boudin
OCTOBER (Boo-din annual Halloween issue, featuring The Skinner Prize)
. . . It waits in between the shadows. It watches from just out of sight. The monster. The Other. The creature haunting the peripheries, guarding the boundaries . . .
For our Halloween Boo-din issue, we are looking for CNF, fiction, poetry, and hybrid work that explores horror and legends surrounding monsters. Your pieces should involve either a re-imagined classic creature, like vampires and werewolves, or a new imagining of a monster as a meaningful element. We are looking for the subtle, the creepy, the unsettling. We will not accept any pieces with gratuitous use of violence or gore.
All work will be read blind and chosen by former Managing Editor/McNeese MFA graduate Abigail Skinner, and the top piece will earn special mention/top placement, and a broadside of their work.
Email your work to boudin@mcneese.edu by September 15th, 2024. No fee! Aim to keep the fiction/CNF under 5,000 or so words. You may submit up to three poems/microfictions (under 500 words).
Boudin fine print
No material published in Boudin may be reprinted or reproduced, in whole or in part, without the permission of the authors. We ask for ourselves 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 email boudin@mcneese.edu to withdraw your work.
Please only submit original work. If your work borrows from or quotes another writer, please make explicit mention of this with your submission, giving full attribution to any material you’re using from another source.
Please limit your submissions to four per calendar year.
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.
We look forward to seeing your work! Surprise us. Spice it up!
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