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What’s BOMB Magazine all about?

 

 

How can I submit work to BOMB?

BOMB Magazine accepts unsolicited poetry and prose submissions for our literary pull-out First Proof by mail, on a year-round rolling basis. Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced (prose only), proofread, and should be final drafts, not exceeding 25 pages in length.

Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope for reply and return of a manuscript, allowing 4 to 6 months for a response. We regret we cannot report on manuscript status, nor offer editorial feedback. You may send your work to the following address:

BOMB Magazine
First Proof Submissions
80 Hanson Place, Suite 703
Brooklyn, NY 11217
USA

E-mailed or faxed submissions will NOT be considered.

Please note that BOMB does NOT accept outside, unsolicited pitches/submissions of interviews, artwork or articles, as this content is generated in-house by the editorial staff.

Those considering submitting to BOMB are strongly encouraged to read the magazine to best understand its content. Sample copies of the current issue of BOMB are available for $10.00 plus $2.50 for Media Mail shipment, or $5.00 for Priority Mail shipment.

 

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Why is it called BOMB?

BOMB was named after Wyndham Lewis’s Blast, a 1917 journal edited by artists and writers. Following in this tradition, BOMB’s editors are also all practitioners of the arts. BOMB was launched because its early editors saw a gap between the way art and literature were discussed and understood by those individuals outside the creative arts and those within the disciplines. BOMB bridges that gap through intellectual, provocative, and daring interviews between artists speaking about their own process, as well as original poetry, fiction, and art.

 

How long has BOMB been around?

BOMB Magazine was founded in 1981 as an artists’ and writers’ quarterly dedicated to presenting work in its own light, and artists’ and writers’ conversations in their own words.

27 years later, more than 800 visual artists, writers, musicians, directors, architects, and actors have taken that idea and run with it. Their voices comprise an ongoing conversation—published in the pages of BOMB—that has changed the nature of cultural discourse.

BOMB has since grown to become an international magazine with an editorial board of over 80 professional artists, writers, actors, directors, architects, and musicians serving as our Contributing Editors.

 

How can I find out about BOMBLive! events or new BOMBsite updates?

To find out about upcoming or recent BOMB events, visit our Events Page.

If you’d like to be informed of all future BOMB events as well as changes to our website—including new web exclusive features, streaming audio and video content, and outtakes from the print issue—look for the left-hand sidebar on this page and find THE BOMB BLAST. Enter your e-mail address in the given field and press the GO button. You will be added to The BOMB BLAST mailing list, and you will receive updates on all future BOMBLive! events, web exclusives, and other exciting BOMB news.

 

Where can I find BOMB Magazine?

BOMB Magazine can be found in most independent bookstores and large magazine stores, such as Hudson News and Universal News, as well as larger bookseller chains, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, and Hastings.

To find a store nearest you, call Dave Kasza at Disticor Magazine Distribution Services at (905) 619-6565, or Ingram Newsstand Service, toll free at (800) 627-6247.

Here is a sample of stores that carry BOMB Magazine near you:

McNally Robinson, New York, NY
Spoonbill and Sugartown, Brooklyn, NY
Book Court, Brooklyn, NY
Book Soup, Los Angeles, CA
Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA
Booksmith, San Francisco, CA
Quimby’s, Chicago
Powell’s, Portland, OR
Books & Books, Miami, FL
Chapter 11 Books, Atlanta, GA