Here we go, last call--submissions for Slippery Elm 2026 close at midnight Eastern, tonight, Feb. 1! ALL CATEGORIES are open again for the last 24 hours. slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Hey, you'd look good in a Slippery Elm T-shirt! Publish with us and be cool like @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social, @jfindura.bsky.social, and @robertokaji.bsky.social 2026 subs close SUNDAY FEB. 1, at midnight Eastern! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

We love promoting our past contributors! Congrats to Chuck Salmons on his new book of poems, available now: sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-... Submissions for Slippery Elm 2026 close TOMORROW, Feb. 1 at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit #10. We've never charged a reading fee for “general” submissions. As a nonprofit operation, though, your contest entry keeps the issue happening. If you like what we do, we appreciate your support!

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit Reason #9. Every contest entrant gets a copy of the issue, cover priced at $10. While there are ambivalent feelings about contests, we feel every entrant should get something tangible back.

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit Reason #8: We announce and publicize a deep list of finalists. Even if you don’t win, finalist status is something to be proud of, and makes a great literary resume item.

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit Reason #7: For some recent contest winners, the winning piece has been their first publication! It could happen to you.

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1! Reason #6: Our issues feature widely-published, well-established writers alongside emerging talents. Be in good company in every issue! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 [email protected] 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!

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 2026 is open for submissions! See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu

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...

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?

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

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

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

Here's "Starry Night: a Constellation"--videopoem by Christy Sheffield Sanford, 3rd place in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/starry-night... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

You guys! After too long locked away in Audible, my audiobook of Running Out is finally available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on Spotify)! open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ... Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/

Hi everyone, my book This World and the Next is available now for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social! books2read.com/b/boznX1 Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

Hi everyone, my books Running Out & This World and the Next will be promoted on @smashwords.bsky.social in July! Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion. books2read.com/b/boznX1 💙📚 🪐📚 #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

We are looking forward to this novella from past Slippery Elm contributor @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social Cameron Mitchell! Print preorder is open now, but it looks like the advance ebook is a great deal too!

We have a winner in our 2025 Poetry Contest! Congratulations to Renée M. Schell for her poem "The Scarf," chosen by this year's judge Timothy Geiger! Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!

We have Finalists in our Poetry contest! slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2... We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!

We have a winner in our 2025 Prose Contest! Congratulations to Victor McConnell, for his story "Before It Gets Cold," chosen by this year's judge @laralillibridge.bsky.social! Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!

We have Finalists in our Prose contest! slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2... We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!

We're at AWP! Table 711, come say hello!

Woohoo, it's AWP in LA! Looking forward to reading from the new book tomorrow (Thursday) night at MemoryLook Cafe, 6pm PDT: www.facebook.com/events/98151...

Lookin' forward the Breakin' the Rules in LA! Come hear several short very subversive excerpts at our AWP off-site, 6pm Thursday at the MemoryLook cafe! www.facebook.com/events/98151... 📚💙

We are...loading up for #AWP25 and LA! Come see us in the bookfair!

We're still working on our 2025 print issue, but check out these newly live Honorable Mentions from our Multimedia Contest, from @colmscully.bsky.social, @margost.bsky.social, Tracy Harris, Casey Killingsworth, Todd Loughran, and @melissafitz.bsky.social! slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...

Last Call! Slippery Elm 2025 submissions close TOMORROW NIGHT, Feb. 1, at midnight Eastern! 💙📚 Send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

We're excited to welcome @lsevick.bsky.social to campus as part of the University of Findlay's Visiting Writers Series, Wed. Jan 22, 7pm, in the AMU! All are welcome to this free event, with an open mic to follow Leona's reading.