Booth publishes four web issues per year, on the first of January, April, July, and October.

In addition, we publish two print issues yearly, usually in fall and spring.

Booth debuted in 2009. Our staff is comprised of students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler University MFA program.

MFA students and alumni execute approximately 98% of Booth. Copy editing, web design, print issues, t-shirts and merch, and so on. 

We typically see around 500 submissions per month, close to 15 per day. Of these we accept around 40 titles per year, less than 1%.

At least 95% of the material we publish comes from blind submissions. We do not refer to submissions as “slush.”

We target a submission turnaround time of sixty days, though we do not always deliver on this.

All acceptances appear on our website. We curate from these works to create print issues and do not promise print issue publication.

We do not consider previously published work. 

We invite submissions September 1 through November 30, 2025, and again January 1 through April 16, 2026.

You can find more about our submissions guidelines and policies here: submit to Booth.

You can email us at booth@butler.edu, though submissions sent to this email will be deleted.

Editor in Chief: Robert Stapleton
Managing Editor: Jenny Walton
Fiction Editor: Bethany Lowery
Poetry Editor: Hannah (Crowe) Harder
Nonfiction Editor: Jenny Schuster
Copy Editor: Heidi Klein
Web Editor: Demetra Koras
Social Media: Jenny Schuster
Readers: Al Hughes, Bee Neeb, Belle Clark, Cameron Sanford, DJ Bolinger, Elizabeth Hannah, Em Shipman, Jackson Aaberg, James Wilson, John Strauss, Maddie Smith, Marilyn Wolf, Matilda Berry, Nick Kreuzman, Noelle Perri, Rachel MacLaren, Tanya Gick