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Salamander

a magazine for poetry, fiction & memoirs

Suffolk University English Dept

41 Temple Street

Boston, MA 02114

Phone: (617) 305-1919 Fax: (617) 305-1744

E-mail: jbarber@suffolk.edu

Web: www.salamandermag.org

Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: not at the moment; check website for updates Reading period: 9/1-5/1 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: $12 Subscription (institutions) 1 year: $12

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:

Vol. 13, No. 2
This issue includes fiction that probes the recesses of self and other ("Sin Verguenza" by C. D. Collins, "Old Women in Bathing Suits" by Bill Bukovsan, "Bloodstone, Or the Good Lord" by Joseph Riippi, "The Moth Catcher" by Sue Williams"); poetry of isolation and connection by Laura Kasischke, Ben Berman, Faith Shearin, Elizabeth Kirschner, Gwendolyn Jensen, Frannie Lindsay, Emmanuel Merle, Deobra Lidov, Carrie Etter, and William Delman, to name a few; translations of classic poems by Montale, Du Fu, and Leopardi; and a feature excerpt from Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford 1937-1947, ed. Fred Marchant. The cover and portfolio of watercolors are done by Beth Balliro.