Boudin

Open to: Current McNeese State University students and employees are ineligible; McNeese alumni may submit only if at least three years have passed since graduation.

hope/solar/punk—December ’26 seeks fiction, CNF, and hybrid work about collective survival, community, decolonization, sustainability, radical kindness, and positive action; under 3,000 words. Final submissions are due November 15, 2026; the live portal lists the deadline as November 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM.

Open to: Current McNeese State University students and employees are ineligible; McNeese alumni may submit only if at least three years have passed since graduation.

hope/solar/punk—December ’26 seeks CNF about collective survival, community, decolonization, sustainability, radical kindness, and positive action; under 3,000 words. Final submissions are due November 15, 2026; the live portal lists the deadline as November 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM.

Open to: Current McNeese State University students and employees are ineligible; McNeese alumni may submit only if at least three years have passed since graduation.

hope/solar/punk—December ’26 seeks hybrid work about collective survival, community, decolonization, sustainability, radical kindness, and positive action; under 3,000 words. It also accepts up to three microfictions under 250 words each in one document. Final submissions are due November 15, 2026; the live portal lists November 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM.

Open to: Current McNeese State University students and employees are ineligible; McNeese alumni may submit only if at least three years have passed since graduation.

hope/solar/punk—December ’26 seeks poems exemplifying community, decolonization, sustainability, collective survival, and radical kindness; submit up to three poems in one document. Final submissions are due November 15, 2026; the live portal lists November 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM.

The 2026 Boudin Novelette Chapbook Contest seeks one unpublished, original story manuscript of 25–40 manuscript pages. The deadline was September 15, 2026; the winner receives $1,000 and publication, with two runners-up offered publication of individual pieces.

“Boo”din: Creepy Crawlies—October ’26 seeks subtle, creepy, and unsettling fiction, creative nonfiction, or hybrid work about creepy crawlies, without gratuitous violence or gore; under 7,000 words. Final submissions were due October 10, 2026.

“Boo”din: Creepy Crawlies—October ’26 seeks subtle, creepy, and unsettling creative nonfiction, fiction, or hybrid work about creepy crawlies, without gratuitous violence or gore; under 7,000 words. Final submissions were due October 10, 2026.

“Boo”din: Creepy Crawlies—October ’26 accepts hybrid submissions about creepy crawlies and the quietly unsettling, emphasizing subtle creepiness rather than gratuitous violence or gore; under 7,000 words. Final submissions were due October 10, 2026.