We are looking for summer 2026 interns! BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists since 1981, so if you have an interest in the arts, the workings of a nonprofit publication, and supporting creative voices, please apply.
BOMB interns see, across our publishing, editorial, advertising, and development departments, how a nonprofit arts magazine works. Our hope is that every intern leaves with more experience and skills than when they began.
This is a hybrid internship, with at least two days of in-person work at our office in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Internship dates: June 15–August 17, 2026
Application deadline: May 22, 2026
Please follow our link in bio to find our Google form application. Our applications require a resume and cover letter. If you have additional questions, email [email protected].
BOMB’s Spring 2026 issue is here and features a mixed media and collage work by Deborah Roberts on the cover.
The artists and writers in this issue challenge the definition of the autobiographical. Through deep explorations of identity and memory, our spring contributors subvert the expected, engage in innovative forms of storytelling, and offer compelling visions of hope and expansion.
The spring issue will be available to BOMB members online starting March 16. Visit the link in our bio to subscribe, join, and receive your copy.
Cover Image: Deborah Roberts, “I come as one but stand as ten-thousand,” 2025, mixed media and collage on canvas, 72 × 48 inches. Photo by Paul Bardagjy. Courtesy of the artist. Copyright Deborah Roberts.
Our Spring 2026 Fellowships & Residencies listing is here! Each quarter, we list programs with open application periods for artists, writers, and performers. We value our creative community and support those artists among us with this free resource.
We will continue to add more listings periodically throughout the spring, so stay tuned for more updates.
Follow our link in bio to find out more.
From our Winter 1989 issue, Harry Mathews, an experimental poet and prose writer, discusses his literary ideology both as a reader and a writer. Interviewer and fellow writer Lynne Tillman gives us “Harry Mathews from A to Z, Sort Of. . .,” a series of rapidfire questions inspired by words relating to Mathew’s novel “Cigarettes” (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987).
Mathews was a part of the OuLiPo group, a literary movement started in France in 1960. The group devised and used novel methods of constraint, such as writing in monosyllables or structuring palindromic narratives, to spark unexpected writing outcomes.
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If Lauren Groff wasn’t a writer, she says she’d be a landscape architect. For the three-time National Book Award finalist, making a work of fiction malleable is much like planting a garden or shaping the land. From our Spring 2026 issue, Groff offers insight into her creative process with fellow writer Rumaan Alam.
Groff’s short story collection, “Brawler” (Riverhead, 2026), examines the influences of cultural violence reflected in the family unit.
BOMB members receive immediate access to the Spring 2026 issue in print and online. Follow our link in bio to subscribe and join today.
From our Fall 2022 issue, writer Yiyun Li, the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Memoir or Autobiography, reflects on animating the protagonists in her novel “The Book of Goose” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022). In conversation with fellow writer Sarah Rose Etter, Li reminds us to treat all characters, regardless of genre, with authentic gravity.
“The Book of Goose” is available for purchase at Bookshop.org, where BOMB Members at or above our Friend level receive 15% off on select titles. Subscribe and join as a Friend of BOMB to enjoy this and other member benefits.
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From our Spring 2026 issue, the Lower East Side Yearbook is an archive of photographs, collages, drawings, and love letters sustained by a neighborhood collective called the Lower East Side Yearbook Committee. Photographer and filmmaker Destiny Mata co-founded the project. It stands as a living history of public housing residents in the Lower East Side–Mata’s home neighborhood.
Community care is essential to the Lower East Side Yearbook. The project documents the Lower East Side’s history of storied advocacy for affordable housing and green spaces, while also celebrating the neighborhood’s unique iconographic character.
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Image on slide 1: Erik Gustafson, “Destiny, Welfare Queens No.7,” 2025, 4 × 5 film. Concept by Destiny Mata.
Image on slide 3: Lee Jiménez, contribution to Lower East Side Yearbook, 2025, collage with photographs by the artist and from the artist’s family archive.
Image on slide 5: Destiny Mata, “Zunilda,” Lower East Side, 2018, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
In this Spring 2024 interview, performance artist Matty Davis speaks with writer Chloé Cooper Jones. Davis makes space to honor creative lineage, while also advocating for radically new forms of expression. His practice investigates how our entanglements with different bodies—from other people’s to the earth’s landforms—shape how we choose to dance in the world.
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In this conversation from our Summer 2018 issue, artists Chris Martin and Cy Gavin discuss painting landscapes, from transient rays of moonlight to the immensity of environmental changes.
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Both Martin and Gavin have also contributed pieces of their work to the BOMB 44th Anniversary Gala & Art Auction. Bid on more than sixty pieces of art via our link in our bio and support the artist’s voice.
A book contains multiple versions of its author, according to writer Bret Anthony Johnston—especially when it’s a short story collection containing works that have been revised across nearly two decades. From our Spring 2026 issue, Johnston speaks with fellow writer Laura van den Berg about the process of writing his recent collection, “Encounters with Unexpected Animals” (Random House, 2026).
With Texas as a backdrop, Johnston gives insights into the personal anecdotes that became his short stories: removing snakes from friends’ properties, walking into a clown convention on a skateboarding trip, and the general holiness of living with animals.
Johnston is the Director of the Michener Center for Writers (@michenercenter ) at the University of Texas at Austin and was recently awarded a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. van den Berg is the Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing at the Harvard Department of English (@harvardenglish ).
Musician, producer, and author Jeff Tweedy, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of Wilco, is interviewed in our Spring 2026 issue by writer Tom Comitta on the occasion of releasing his new solo triple album, “Twilight Override” (dBpm Records, 2025).
With endearing honesty, Tweedy contemplates fame as a platform from which artists might envision challenges to create brighter collective futures. During this year’s “Twilight Override” tour, Tweedy bridged rock music across generations by performing with his sons, Sammy and Spencer.
BOMB Members receive immediate access to the Spring 2026 issue in print and online. Follow our link in bio to subscribe today and read their full conversation.
Image: Jeff Tweedy. Photo by Shervin Lainez.
