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The Bombay Literary Magazine’s mission is to publish fine literature from around the world and promote a writerly perspective on narratives. We publish fiction, poetry, translations, photo-essays, and graphic fiction in the months of April, August and December. Our current issue is Issue 61 (August 2025). We will start accepting submissions for Issue 62 (December 2025) from September 01 through September 30, 2025.

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Issue 62 Cover: © Dimpy Menon. Image reproduced here with the artist’s permission.

Dimpy’s bronze artworks—much-awarded, much-exhibited, much-collected—twirl, leap, and soar through the air. Sometimes her people assume still poses, but we sense that motion is their natural state of being. William James often wrote about how we need to take the salto mortale— the mortal leap— when edged with precarity. Dimpy’s bronze beings are living promises of the freedom that lies within our reach.

Banner image: Interior of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Salle Labrouste, Paris. Image source: Colossal Magazine.

A Box of Chocolates

The Bombay Literary Magazine has been curating literature since 2013. That is a lot of content. An excess of choice usually leads to discontentment however. After much thought and earlier missteps, we concluded the best way to give you a sense of the kind of literature(s) we have published over the years is to adopt Forrest Gump’s philosophy: Life is like a box of chocolates and you never know what you’re going to get. Here then is a box of chocolates. The stories, poems, translations, essays, graphic fiction and visual narratives (five of each) have been randomly selected from our archives. Reload the page and you should get a different box. Thanks for visiting, friend. Browse, read, share at will.