Events

Pieces are selected by a blind jury process, led by an editorial student staff.

The saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and this month, in honor of Mother’s Day, we want your stories focused on Mama Bears backed into a corner. What will they do to protect their cubs? How do they invent a justification for crossing the uncrossable line? And was it all worth it?

We're looking for pieces exploring conversations we have with ourselves but never fully resolve.

All submissions must have a link to science.

This issue will be an exploration into what education actually means and what alternative philosophies could replace the current, "education is for getting a good job and becoming a productive worker, expanding the economy", to something more holistic, more socially beneficial and more forward thinking.

We want looong poetry. We want to feel the weight and weave of your words. Spin a yarn for us!

For this special issue, we want stories about characters with special collections. Collections that bring joy, sadness, nostalgia, fear.
That take up just an inch of shelf space or are crowding someone out of their home, or their mind.

Chance encounters, brief interactions, and how fleeting moments with strangers can shape our lives.

Much ado is made in the literary world of younger poets making waves, but it's never too late to develop and share your voice, and for many poets, their best work comes at an older age.

This collection aims to share untold, true, funny stories of pleasure, intimacy, sex, sexuality and thus smash the stigma around this still-too-taboo topic.

What do you think of when you hear the word “power”? What does it mean to have power? What does it mean to use it? What does it mean to abuse it? How does it feel when it’s taken away? 

A seed is a small thing that we plant and nurture to grow bigger things we need. A seed is a promise, a hope, a plan to provide and to make things better. Seeds are where the future waits and dreams.

Submissions are restricted to women and gender non-conforming people.

We welcome content that focuses on trans voices, survivorship and healing from harm/trauma/violence, creative expressions of all kinds. We welcome your full range of emotions and expressions.

Tragic-romantic is a dichotomy that often exists in baby queer relationships. I want to see people's spin on tragedy or romance.

We invite narratives that illuminate what we choose (or are forced to) to carry forward, from the weight of inherited kitchen tools to the muscle memory of craft, from arrangements of space to patterns of gathering. We’re interested in stories that reveal how these carried things remain vital through our lives.

Say it loud, say it raw. Celebrate, condemn, twist it inside out. Go wild, go sexy, go off the rails.

Libretto Magazine invites writers to explore stories of secrecy, silence, and the unspoken. It can encompass whispered confessions, hidden histories, suppressed voices, or the quiet power of untold truths.

For our May issue, Boudin is looking for poetry, CNF, and fiction about displacement with a focus on immigration. We're particularly interested in the visceral emotions that come with the rediscovery, recollection, or loss of home.

Imagining, dreaming, and remembering by their very nature resist censor. Are they acts of resistance then? Then writing in their language must be too. 
When we mine your dreams tomorrow what would we find?