
Wherein the editors of <The Bombay Literary Magazine> hold forth on literature and their magazine.
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A word on the window sill, good friend. We are currently open for submissions for TBLM’s Issue 64. The deadline is May 31, but we are close to capacity in (untranslated) poetry and fiction. We’ll most likely close accepting...
In our last Substack post we’d mentioned that:
…we’ll post our submission call for the next issue (#64, August 2026) in two weeks. Two weeks! Eeks!
Good people, those two weeks and multiple eeks have passed. We are now...
We are delighted to report that Sharon Aruparayil, whose story ‘Smoke Becomes Me’ we had published in Issue 62 (December 2025), is on the shortlist of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia Region). C...
Two more weeks until Issue 63. For our poor editors, this means two more weeks of commenting, emailing, author prodding, Microsoft Word wrassling, rash scratching, and ignoring the querulous whingeing—the rain, perennial— f...
No more waiting! This week we’ll be sending out notifications to writers who’d shared their work for consideration in TBLM’s April issue (#63). If you haven’t heard from us by April 01, contact us at [email protected]....
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The Bombay Literary Magazine publishes fine literature from around the world. Our outlook is cosmopolitan, our interests eclectic, and we have a special focus on the writerly life.
Fiction writer. Occasional essayist. Occasional reviewer. Founder Editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine (https://bombaylitmag.com/)
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