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.

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.
salamandermag.org/contests/

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.
https://www.newpages.com/guide-submission-opportunities/salamander-2025-fiction-contest/

#writingcontest @salamandermag.bsky.social

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.

❤️ thank you!

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.

salamandermag.org/dreams-of-cr...

PDF here: salamandermag.org/product/sala...

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.
salamandermag.org/portfolio/is...

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.
View selected public contents here:
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And purchase an issue or subscribe here: salamandermag.org/subscribe/

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."
To register: tinyurl.com/5n7usynj