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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:
Vol 15, No. 1 offers fiction by Joseph Gross, Charles Haverty, and Susan Monsky; memoir by Jay Ponteri, and poetry by Andrea Cohen, Enrique Lihn, Elisabeth Eybers, Bert Stern, George Kalogeris, Lucy Tobin, Judy Katz-Levine, and Eammon Wall, among others. The cover art and featured insert are by painter Marilyn Levin.
Vol. 14, No.2 offers new poetry by Chase Twichell, Stephen Knauth, Maura Stanton, and Stephen Ackerman (among others); an in-depth conversation with Edward P. Jones; and compelling fiction by Geoff Kronik, Siobhan Fallon, Aaron Hellem, and Christine Dwyer Hickey. Cover art is by Massachusetts-based artist Kaetlyn Wilcox.
Vol. 14, No. 1 presents new poetry by Annie Boutelle, Mark Terrill, Cheryl Baldi, Kevin Oberlin, Jessica Greenbaum, Lucyna Prostko, Patrick Donnelly, and Trey Moody (among others), and arresting fiction by Kate Reuther, Glen Pourciau, Seana Graham, Anne Germanacos, and Siobhan Fallon. Cover art is by distinguished artist SoHyun Bae.