The Bombay Literary Magazine publishes original fiction, poetry, translations, essays, photo-essays, and graphic fiction from around the world in the months of April, August and December. Our approach is cosmopolitan, our taste eclectic, and our chosen folly is to view each and every one of our readers as a provisional or prospective writer.

Our current issue is Issue 63 (April 2026).  We will start accepting submissions for Issue 64 (August 2026) from May 01 through May 30, 2026.

Welcome to The Bombay Literary Magazine.

Issue 63 Cover: Punch cards on the Jacquard hand loom in the  Textiles Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum. Image courtesy of the Science Museum Group Collection. The Jacquard cards inspired Charles Babbage (1791–1871) to build his Analytical Engine, the progenitor of all our computational devices. Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), Babbage’s protégé and the world’s first programmer, observed insightfully that the Analytical Engine “weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves”.

Banner image: Bookworm Library, Panaji (Panjim), Goa. India. In previous issues, we have featured some of the grand libraries of the world. Great libraries, heritage libraries, libraries with magnificent arches, discreet coughs, and built by warmongering monarchs, elite universities or civic-minded millionaires. These libraries tend to conceive people as either having skipped or completed childhood.. The Bookworm Library in Panaji is different. Open to all, as cozy as a much-used apron, child-centred and intractably optimistic about reading, it is exactly the kind of place where young readers can begin their lifelong love affair with books. Respect.