Our Story
The Bulletin was founded in 2018 with a modest conviction: that the essay, the story, and the poem remain essential forms for understanding a world that grows more complex by the day. What began as a small biannual journal distributed among friends has grown into a quarterly magazine with readers in over forty countries.
We publish fiction, poetry, essays, criticism, reportage, and interviews—work that is intelligent without being academic, engaged without being strident, and crafted with an attention to language that honors the long tradition of literary publishing while remaining alive to the present moment.
What We Stand For
We believe that serious writing can also be pleasurable. That the best criticism illuminates without condescending. That literature is not a luxury but a form of attention, a way of seeing more clearly the world we share and the worlds we carry within us.
The Bulletin is committed to publishing voices from across the political and aesthetic spectrum, and to creating a space where complex ideas can be explored at length. We are independently owned, editorially independent, and supported by our readers through subscriptions and donations.
Our Team
The Bulletin is edited by a small team of writers and editors based in New York, with contributing editors and correspondents in London, Berlin, Nairobi, Mexico City, and Tokyo. Our masthead includes some of the most distinctive voices in contemporary letters, and we are always looking for new writers whose work surprises and challenges us.
“A magazine is not a collection of articles. It is a conversation, conducted in public, across time.”
Submissions
We welcome unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism. Please read the magazine before submitting. We consider work that has not been previously published in English. Response time is typically 6–10 weeks. For guidelines, please visit our contact page.
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