Meet Hannah!
Here’s Hannah, the third and final conductor on our ship of dreams. Also, she’s a Best New Poet. Just saying. _______________________________________________________________________________________...
View ArticleHow to Crawl Out of a Hole
Once, I had a writing teacher that told me I should write every day regardless of what was going on in my life. ”I don’t care if your mother dies,” she said, “you write through it.” “Oh. Oh. Okay.”...
View ArticleThe Male Privilege Plot: Jeffrey Eugenides Broke My Fragile Woman Heart
Jeffrey Eugenides is a wonderful writer. I loved, and love, Middlesex. But the recent interview he gave with Salon, specifically the bits about gender in the literary world, surprised and...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy
Photo credit: Associated Press So… Hurricane Sandy happened. Are you safe? I hope that wherever you are living right now, it is safe and with heat/water/electricity. As you doubtless...
View ArticleGO VOTE TODAY.
This is the second presidential election I have been legal to vote in. The first, in 2008, was my study abroad semester in college and I voted absentee a few weeks before Election Day. (I’ve been lucky...
View ArticleThe Winter 2012 issue is finally here!
Well, the storm that hit the Northeast this weekend slowed down its release a bit, but now the sun is out and so is Broad! #3. You can download it from our “Issues” page above or read it over Issuu....
View ArticleSome things are afoot
Hey writers/readers! Submissions for our Summer 2013 issue close TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT, y’all. You have until 11:59:59 on this dear Friday, March 1 to send us your fiction, creative essays, poems,...
View ArticleMarch 2013: “Clean”
Here’s the winner of our Readers Write column for March, for which the theme was “clean.” Amber Shockley, thank you for submitting this poem. Swab Amber Shockley Believe me, I would scour my whole...
View ArticleWeekend link roundup!
No Steubenville coverage this week, but I have been reading about the rape crisis in Syria. It’s an important story and one that’s been largely ignored — or forgotten? — by the other side of the world...
View ArticleBoston
I live in Boston. Last Saturday, several of my cousins came to visit. We all grew up not too far from the city — the length of a long commute — but we’d only spent a handful of afternoons there as...
View ArticleIndependence
On Tuesday, June 25, I was in Texas. I was in Texas because in six weeks I will move there for an MFA program, and I needed to find a place to live. That MFA program is for another post. I mention...
View ArticleAnnouncements!
Hello, gentlepeople! I’d like to start the new year with some announcements, and a request. This fall has brought a lot of changes to the Broad! staff. Two of us moved across the country in the past...
View ArticleBecoming More Inclusive in 2014
Morning, everyone. It’s a new year now, and for 2014 Broad! has resolved to be more actively supportive of those who are trans* or otherwise outside the gender binary. When I founded the journal, for...
View Article“Mothers” is out!
Check out our first themed issue over on the Issues page! We’ve got wonderful, varied work by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Joanna Cattonar, Kirstin Ruth Bratt, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Chanel Brenner, Katie...
View ArticleCall for Submissions, Winter Issue
Hey everyone! We’re still looking for submissions to our Winter 2014 issue. No theme this time, so you can send whatever you want. Email us your best fiction, creative nonfiction, poems, artwork or...
View ArticleAnnouncements: Pushcarts and Sci-Fi
Hey y’all, I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, if you’re American, and a lovely November if you’re not American. We have some exciting news! Broad! has nominated five pieces from our 2014 issues for...
View ArticleSexy Robot Month 2.0: “Voudrais” by Heather
When Kendra and I decided to launch SEXY ROBOT MONTH, we thought it might be fun to add to the fun ourselves. Especially in the beginning, when we didn’t have a ton of submissions in our queue (keep...
View ArticleSEXY ROBOT MONTH 4.0: “Autoclave” by Julia Dixon Evans
Dear readers: you’re the best. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am about the Sexy Robot Month stories we’ve gotten this month. So far, we’ve seen the perils of engineering fantasies, a meditation on...
View ArticleSEXY ROBOT WRAP-UP: An Interview
Dear Broads, What a month. In late June, Heather and T.R. and I were busily prepping for the release of our summer 2015 issue, themed SCI-FI AND THE SPECULATIVE. It had everything: apocalyptic lesbian...
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