Resilience

For the first time at BoomerLitMag, every work in the issue explores one theme–Resilience, as announced last issue. We chose this theme to do what we can as a literary magazine to acknowledge and help readers struggling with the misguided actions by the current U.S. administration that are damaging democracy, public health locally and globally, education, the economy….

While we are not a political magazine and do not publish opinion pieces or journalism, we asked for–and received—wonderful works exploring resilience through literary expression. We’re pleased to share the best of these submissions with you. You’ll find works ranging from the intimate and familial (Linda Boroff’s short memoir), to prose poems of the surreal (Peter Leight) to the fantastic and whimsical in fiction (Ellen Davis Sullivan), to political poems (Joshua Zeitler).

Though we’ve focused this issue on a single theme, we believe these works are as eclectic and multi‑faceted as those from any previous issue. We hope you find these works enjoyable, as well as meaningful and helpful, whatever your circumstances.

We expected that speaking candidly about political dangers, if only briefly, might lose readers. Instead, we received thoughtful submissions, including from those who disagreed with us, and an unusually large increase in subscribers with almost no unsubscribes. Thank you, long‑time and new readers of BoomerLitMag for your support of excellent new literature.

Crossing Boundaries

Next issue we will again be publishing quality work regardless of theme. Buoyed by what we received, we’re also announcing a new theme: Crossing Boundaries. This theme again is a response to the current crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere, and again we’re not looking for journalistic or academic responses or essays. We invite original, previously unpublished literary work dealing with crossing boundaries, which can be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

If you are interested in submitting, please make sure you read and follow the special guidelines for submitting on this theme. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Staffing Update

Due to a welcome but at times overwhelming increase in submissions, we have expanded our hard‑working, all‑volunteer team. Laura Littleford is now helping to review poetry, and Anne Ritterspach proofs our issue and advises on some submissions.

Be well, stay resilient, help each other.

Leonard Lang, Editor