"Summerland" by Taylor Melia Elyse Mahone, published in Issue No.59, has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! Congratulations Taylor - so well deserved! If you haven't read this story yet, you're in for a treat... 🐊👋🌴🍊✨
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My thanks to @salamandermag.bsky.social for being able to share this issue with so many fabulous others!
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Honored that “This Could Be a Poem about Rape” appears in the latest issue of @salamandermag.bsky.social —thank you to Katie Sticca and the Salamander editorial team🤍
You can grab a copy of Issue 60 at your local Barnes & Noble or from this link: salamandermag.org
Long-awaited, and so worth it: Salamander #60 is now available in print and online at salamandermag.org. Happy reading and happy holidays to all!
Always so exciting to see work published in Salamander earn more well deserved recognition! Congratulations to Julie Marie Wade, Notable in the Best American Essays, and to Sue McMillan, Distinguished Story in Best American Mystery & Suspense.
Our upcoming Issue 60 marks the end of an era: Salamander is parting ways with Suffolk University after two decades.
Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions during the 2025-2026 reading period, and stay connected with us for updates.
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Always a thrill to share the results of our annual fiction contest: congratulations to winners Kate Lister Campbell and Ivan Suazo, chosen by contest judge Helen Phillips, and to all of the finalists! It's an honor to read and be trusted with all of your work.
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Onto a second round of awesome, between-semester, poetry books 🤍
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It's the last weekend to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Get those stories in: salamandermag.org/contests
Long weekend, short stories: submit your work to the Salamander Fiction Contest, judged by Helen Phillips, this weekend! Submissions close 6/1.
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We're hard at work on Issue 60(!) but just put up some new public content from the incredible Issue 59!
Read your hearts out here: salamandermag.org/portfolio/issue-59/
Salamander's Fiction Contest is open to stories up to 30 pages (7500 words) through June 1. $20 fee. Winner receives $1k & publication. Judge: Helen Phillips.
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We're so excited to announce that the judge for Salamander's 2025 Fiction Contest will be Helen Phillips, author of The Need and Hum, among other works. Submissions open on May 1! Find more information here: salamandermag.org/contests
Please join us this weekend, 4/13, for a reading of work from our new issue!
Join us this weekend, 4/13 at 3 PM, for a virtual reading to celebrate our new Honey Bear issue🐻Readers include Marcy Rae Henry, Danny Lang-Perez, and Gabrielle Grace Hogan.
Register here: tinyurl.com/zy9j4vzd
Hope to see you there!
Happy to return home to the new issue of @salamandermag.bsky.social
Got my copy of @salamandermag.bsky.social that includes my one sentence essay, Dreams of Crows!
Thank you @salamandermag.bsky.social & Kevin Wilson for believing in my work ❤️
This story is about a squirrel invasion, a mysterious plant plague, but mostly about the love between a young man and his grandfather.
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Just got the latest @salamandermag.bsky.social in the mail! Can't wait to read it. #supportlitmags
A new poem is live at @salamandermag.bsky.social that's inspired by the wonderful @poetshouse.bsky.social and their Poets Walk. It's a poem from my new manuscript, Ordinary Splendor. Thank you to the editors. salamandermag.org/upon-crossin...
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Really cool to have a new essay up @salamandermag.bsky.social, Dreams Of Crows. It’s from a series of essays I wrote in a flurry last January that have been out and about this last year.
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The Sacrifice Donna Vorreyer | poetry The herd of goats whispers, We're tired of the snow. I whisper back, I know, scratch between their curved horns. Four of them chew hay, three jostle for feed, and one is on the milking table, udders full and bleating when a great boom sounds against the door. The youth brigade stomps forth in heavy boots, brandishing chains and curses, expressions that age knows by heart. I can no longer hide. I hold out my hands for shackles, and they march me into the trees, a crone in their midst, a villain from a fairy tale. If this were true, I could conjure some magic to escape. But stories are only stories, which the brigade doesn't know, so I am forced down into the cold river, made to gather stones as I grow numb, until I grow heavy enough to sink. The sun blinks through branches, the cries of the goats riding the thick air. I close my eyes. How light my eyelids feel, my hair, as I am swept beneath the current. The brigade ignores me. They will still ignore me when my bones return, will never acknowledge my haunting as they look in the mirror at their own aging faces. But the goats will know. They will butt their horns against the doors of their stalls. They will heel to the sound of my rattling.
Thanks to @salamandermag.bsky.social for featuring my prose poem "The Sacrifice" as one of the online pieces for print Issue 59. I wrote this strange little poem about aging on a goat farm writing retreat - thanks, goats for the opening line.
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Our beautiful Honey Bear issue has arrived (with a portfolio by sculptor Dale Rogers), and is on its way to your nearest bookstore or subscriber mailbox.
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Exciting Fine Arts Work Center scholarship opportunity for emerging poets living or working in Boston - more information from the Mayor's Office of Art and Culture here! cityofbostonartsandculture.submittable.com/submit/31917...
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Expected back from the printer soon: Salamander 59, featuring the excellent writers and artists below! Subscribe now to receive your own issue: salamandermag.org/subscribe/
We're incredibly saddened to hear of the passing of Danielle Legros Georges, former poet laureate of Boston and longtime friend, contributing editor, and contributor to Salamander. Revisiting some of her work, here, from 2013.
For those able to attend (virtually!), this event looks fantastic. Hear six excerpts from the "Best Debut Short Stories 2024" this Thurs at 7 PM ET. Contributors Leanne Ma and Benjamin Van Voorhis will read from "Guilty Parties" and "Patience."
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