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Salamander
a magazine for poetry, fiction & memoirs
Suffolk University English Dept
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 573-8290
E-mail: jbarber[at]suffolk[dot]edu
Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: not at the moment; check website for updates Reading period: 9/1-4/30 Response time: 3 months approx. Payment: honorarium Contests: not at the moment; check website for updates ISSN: 1063-3359 Founded: 1992 Issues per year: 2 Average pages: 160 Cover price: $7 Sample price (postpaid): $3 Subscription (individuals) 1 year: $13 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $14
Publisher’s description: Salamander brings its readers outstanding new work by highly accomplished emerging and established writers. In addition to poems, stories, and poetry in translation, we publish feature excerpts: Yiyun Li’s short story “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” from her book of the same name, appears in vol. 11, no. 1, and vol. 13, no. 2 presents an excerpt from Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947. Memoirs in Salamander illuminate moments of recent history--chronicles of rural life, tales of Paris in the 1950s, a search for one family’s island past.
Among the poets we’ve published are Laura Kasischke, John F. Deane, Eric Pankey, Jessica Greenbaum, Jean Valentine, Frances Richey, Sharon Dolin, Sabra Loomis, and Steven Cramer. Fiction contributors include Justin Cronin, C.D. Collins, Mary O’Donoghue, Paul Yoon, David Crouse, Jhumpa Lahiri, Peter Ho Davies, Debbie Danielpour Chapel and Rachel Klein.
“…a stimulating, eclectic selection…work that will linger in your mind long after you finish the magazine.” —NewPages.com
Recent issues:
Our Winter 2011-12 issue features Fiction by our 2011 contest winner, Hester Kaplan, and our honorable mention, Kelly Luce, both selected by Jim Shepard, as well as stories by Rachel Kadish and Brandi Wells. New poetry by Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Benjamin Sutton, Brett Foster, Nancy Botkin, Nancy Carol Moody, Susan Goslee, Linda Katherine Cutting, Marie Gauthier, Katherine Hollander, Frannie Lindsay, Sarah Chace, Kathleen Balma, Albert Abonado, and many others. The cover painting is by Samuel Bak.
Salamander vol. 16, no.2 features new poetry by Leslie McGrath, Julia Story, James Silas Rogers, Weston Cutter, Susan Rich, Jesseca Cornelson, Jenna Le, George Kalogeris, Carol Dine, Jeremy Allan Hawkins, Linda Zisquit, and many others. In Chad B. Anderson’s short story “The Kelley Street Disappearances” a neighborhood reels from an unsolved crime; in Allison Alsup’s “Another Man’s Clothes” we enter the mind of a Chinatown laundry work in early twentieth-century San Francisco. Books reviewed in this issue include Seamus Heaney’s Human Chain; Adam Zagajewski’s Unseen Hand; and three fiction debuts: Blue Land by C. D. Collins; You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon; and In the Time of the Girls by Anne Germanacos.