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Salamander
@salamandermag.bsky.social
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Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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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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October 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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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.
August 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Onto a second round of awesome, between-semester, poetry books 🤍

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4 poetry collections
August 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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It's the last weekend to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Get those stories in: salamandermag.org/contests
May 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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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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May 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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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/
Issue 59 – Salamander Magazine
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May 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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/

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Salamander 2025 Fiction Contest, Judged by Helen Phillips
Join the Salamander 2025 Fiction Contest. Submit your story for a chance to win $1000 first prize and be published.
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May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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
April 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Please join us this weekend, 4/13, for a reading of work from our new issue!
salamandermag.bsky.social Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social · Apr 7
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!
April 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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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!
April 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy to return home to the new issue of @salamandermag.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Got my copy of @salamandermag.bsky.social that includes my one sentence essay, Dreams of Crows!
April 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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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.
March 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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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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Upon Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge While Wildfires Brush Through Quebec – Salamander Magazine
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March 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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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March 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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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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.
March 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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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.
View selected public contents here:
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And purchase an issue or subscribe here: salamandermag.org/subscribe/
March 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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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...
City of Boston Arts and Culture - Fine Arts Work Center Scholarship Application 2025
Call for Applicants: 2025 FAWC Summer Workshop Scholarships The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC), City of Boston, in partnership with the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), is excited to announce ...
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February 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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/
February 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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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.
February 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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
PEN/Dau Prize x Catapult: Reading from Best Debut Short Stories 2024 - PEN America
Join us on December 19th, 2024, for an evening celebrating the winners of the 2024 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Six of the writers, Josie Abugov, Annie Barnett, Jason Baum...
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December 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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Thrilling to see this collection out in the world, and very grateful that "Patience" (by Benjamin Van Voorhis) and "Guilty Parties" (by Leanne Ma) will have an even wider readership. Thank you, @penamerica.bsky.social!
December 4, 2024 at 7:41 PM