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 60 (April 2025). We will start accepting submissions for Issue 61 (August 2025) from May 01 through May 31st, 2025.
Welcome to The Bombay Literary Magazine.
Issue 60 Cover: © Mother Nature. Kaon-Proton collision and subsequent melodrama recorded in a bubble chamber.
Banner image: Interior of Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbra, 1728. 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.
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