Slippery Elm
@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social
We're a literary journal out of the University of Findlay, committed to promoting the best fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, & multimedia work by today's writers. https://slipperyelm.findlay.edu/
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1
Reason #5:
Does every journal send you galleys for approval before publication? We copy edit carefully, and work with every author on exactly how each piece will look, before the issue goes to press.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #5:
Does every journal send you galleys for approval before publication? We copy edit carefully, and work with every author on exactly how each piece will look, before the issue goes to press.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
January 25, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1
Reason #5:
Does every journal send you galleys for approval before publication? We copy edit carefully, and work with every author on exactly how each piece will look, before the issue goes to press.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #5:
Does every journal send you galleys for approval before publication? We copy edit carefully, and work with every author on exactly how each piece will look, before the issue goes to press.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1
Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication!
Check out 2020 contrib @jessemdelong.bsky.social's new book The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at
www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn...
And send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication!
Check out 2020 contrib @jessemdelong.bsky.social's new book The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at
www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn...
And send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
January 24, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1
Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication!
Check out 2020 contrib @jessemdelong.bsky.social's new book The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at
www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn...
And send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #4: We promote our authors long past publication!
Check out 2020 contrib @jessemdelong.bsky.social's new book The Vinegar in our Hearts, on sale now at
www3.uwsp.edu/english/corn...
And send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm:
Reason #3: Live online forever! Print’s great, but we archive all back issues on our website, with links you can share and repost.
See past years at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/editions/ and send us your best by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #3: Live online forever! Print’s great, but we archive all back issues on our website, with links you can share and repost.
See past years at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/editions/ and send us your best by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
January 23, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm:
Reason #3: Live online forever! Print’s great, but we archive all back issues on our website, with links you can share and repost.
See past years at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/editions/ and send us your best by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #3: Live online forever! Print’s great, but we archive all back issues on our website, with links you can share and repost.
See past years at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/editions/ and send us your best by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Our interview and Q&A is up at Lit Mag News with @beckyltuch.bsky.social! Everything you ever wanted to know about Slippery Elm and more: litmagnews.substack.com/p/we-like-wo...
Check it out and send us your best--2026 submissions close on Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Check it out and send us your best--2026 submissions close on Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
"We Like Working With Authors." A Chat with Dave Essinger, Editor of Slippery Elm
"We like accessible."
litmagnews.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Our interview and Q&A is up at Lit Mag News with @beckyltuch.bsky.social! Everything you ever wanted to know about Slippery Elm and more: litmagnews.substack.com/p/we-like-wo...
Check it out and send us your best--2026 submissions close on Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Check it out and send us your best--2026 submissions close on Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
This is tomorrow, at 11 a.m. Eastern--with our Feb. 1 submissions deadline ten days away, tune in for an interview and open Q&A!
Hey! We're doing a Zoom interview with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News on Thursday the 22nd, 11am Eastern--all are welcome to tune in and ask questions!
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Save the Dates! January Interviews & Info Sessions!
Happening this month...
litmagnews.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:11 PM
This is tomorrow, at 11 a.m. Eastern--with our Feb. 1 submissions deadline ten days away, tune in for an interview and open Q&A!
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Be read! Our last issue received a print run of 1000 copies and an initial mailing of over 500, so you know your work will show up in someone else’s hands, too.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Be read! Our last issue received a print run of 1000 copies and an initial mailing of over 500, so you know your work will show up in someone else’s hands, too.
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Be read! Our last issue received a print run of 1000 copies and an initial mailing of over 500, so you know your work will show up in someone else’s hands, too.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Be read! Our last issue received a print run of 1000 copies and an initial mailing of over 500, so you know your work will show up in someone else’s hands, too.
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #1: We do a slick, quality print publication. Print still has prestige, and it's great to hold that material copy in your hands.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #1: We do a slick, quality print publication. Print still has prestige, and it's great to hold that material copy in your hands.
January 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #1: We do a slick, quality print publication. Print still has prestige, and it's great to hold that material copy in your hands.
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Reason #1: We do a slick, quality print publication. Print still has prestige, and it's great to hold that material copy in your hands.
With two weeks left, we have re-opened free submissions in our "General" categories!
These will remain open until the new caps have been met, and contest submissions will be open until Feb. 1--all contest entrants receive a copy of our 2026 issue!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
These will remain open until the new caps have been met, and contest submissions will be open until Feb. 1--all contest entrants receive a copy of our 2026 issue!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
With two weeks left, we have re-opened free submissions in our "General" categories!
These will remain open until the new caps have been met, and contest submissions will be open until Feb. 1--all contest entrants receive a copy of our 2026 issue!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
These will remain open until the new caps have been met, and contest submissions will be open until Feb. 1--all contest entrants receive a copy of our 2026 issue!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Hey! We're doing a Zoom interview with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News on Thursday the 22nd, 11am Eastern--all are welcome to tune in and ask questions!
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Save the Dates! January Interviews & Info Sessions!
Happening this month...
litmagnews.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Hey! We're doing a Zoom interview with @beckyltuch.bsky.social of Lit Mag News on Thursday the 22nd, 11am Eastern--all are welcome to tune in and ask questions!
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Here's a link to the Save the Date page, with Zoom registration info: litmagnews.substack.com/p/save-the-d...
Slippery Elm 2025 is out in the world! If you entered our contests or ordered a copy, yours is on its way to you now!
Submissions for our 2026 issue close Feb. 1--send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for our 2026 issue close Feb. 1--send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Slippery Elm 2025 is out in the world! If you entered our contests or ordered a copy, yours is on its way to you now!
Submissions for our 2026 issue close Feb. 1--send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for our 2026 issue close Feb. 1--send us your best!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Announcing Lawrence Coates as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! See his work at lawrencecoates.com, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Announcing Lawrence Coates as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! See his work at lawrencecoates.com, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.
Announcing @joniemcintire.bsky.social as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry! See her work at www.joniemcintire.net, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.
December 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Announcing @joniemcintire.bsky.social as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry! See her work at www.joniemcintire.net, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.
Winners of our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest are LIVE at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle... !
Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
December 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Winners of our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest are LIVE at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle... !
Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
As we work on the full video from this year's release party, here are some photos from the evening: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/photos-from-...
Submissions for our 2026 issue are open now at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for our 2026 issue are open now at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
As we work on the full video from this year's release party, here are some photos from the evening: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/photos-from-...
Submissions for our 2026 issue are open now at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for our 2026 issue are open now at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
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Looking for a unique Xmas gift for someone who runs and/or reads? Can I suggest a signed copy of my novel about ultrarunning, Running Out?
dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!
dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!
December 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Looking for a unique Xmas gift for someone who runs and/or reads? Can I suggest a signed copy of my novel about ultrarunning, Running Out?
dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!
dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!
Announcing finalists for the 2025 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/2025-multime...
Thanks to all who entered—winners will be announced soon!
Thanks to all who entered—winners will be announced soon!
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Announcing finalists for the 2025 Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/2025-multime...
Thanks to all who entered—winners will be announced soon!
Thanks to all who entered—winners will be announced soon!
Congrats and good luck to our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees Victor McConnell, Renée M. Schell, Richard Hague, Jennifer Dupree, B. Fulton Jennes, and Elizabeth Cohen!
Slippery Elm 2025 is available now, and we're reading for 2026: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
Slippery Elm 2025 is available now, and we're reading for 2026: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Congrats and good luck to our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees Victor McConnell, Renée M. Schell, Richard Hague, Jennifer Dupree, B. Fulton Jennes, and Elizabeth Cohen!
Slippery Elm 2025 is available now, and we're reading for 2026: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
Slippery Elm 2025 is available now, and we're reading for 2026: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
Slippery Elm 2026 is open for submissions!
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Slippery Elm 2026 is open for submissions!
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
Thanks @jbrookewrites.bsky.social! Loved this poem.
Just received my contributor copy in mail … first time published @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social and honestly this hard copy pub is a WOW— high recommend for anyone valuing read-every-page look-great-on-the-nightstand lit journals! Thanks to the editors and readers!
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thanks @jbrookewrites.bsky.social! Loved this poem.
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
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There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton!
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Where to Buy
This World and the Next: Print copies are on sale online directly from the publisher, or from the author, and from Jay and Mary’s Book Center in Troy and The Cozy Book Nook in Dayton.Ebook now avai…
dave-essinger.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton!
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Last call! Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest closes TONIGHT, Tuesday Sept. 30, at midnight Eastern! Prizes for 1st-3rd, and we publish a deep list of finalists! See past work here slipperyelm.findlay.edu/multimedia-g... and send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last call! Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest closes TONIGHT, Tuesday Sept. 30, at midnight Eastern! Prizes for 1st-3rd, and we publish a deep list of finalists! See past work here slipperyelm.findlay.edu/multimedia-g... and send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Not all the submissions to our Multimedia Contest are complicated high-tech--check out this collage/Word piece from Todd Loughran, a finalist last year: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/voices-in-my...
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Not all the submissions to our Multimedia Contest are complicated high-tech--check out this collage/Word piece from Todd Loughran, a finalist last year: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/voices-in-my...
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Not all of our Multimedia Contest finalists are videopoems--check out last year's winner, audio by Cara Losier Chanoine at carachanoine.wixsite.com/sad-girl-mix...
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Not all of our Multimedia Contest finalists are videopoems--check out last year's winner, audio by Cara Losier Chanoine at carachanoine.wixsite.com/sad-girl-mix...
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Here's "Where Breath Becomes Sound"--videopoem by @melissafitz.bsky.social, finalist in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/where-breath... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here's "Where Breath Becomes Sound"--videopoem by @melissafitz.bsky.social, finalist in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/where-breath... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit