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.

Video from our 2024 print issue release party is live! slipperyelm.findlay.edu/2024-issue-r... Submissions for our 2025 issue are open until Feb. 1: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Happy 2025! Winners of our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest are LIVE at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...! Give these works by Cara Chanoine, Sam Pickett, and Christy Sanford a watch, and send us something for our 2025 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Also: my first novel, Running Out, is half-price on Kindle this week! amazon.com/dp/B0CM7622MJ “After a plane crash in a remote Canadian wilderness, the athlete-hero of Dave Essinger’s riveting debut novel faces the race of his life.” —Mark Brazaitis, author of American Seasons 💙📚 #running

Hey! For a limited time, my new novel This World and the Next is on price promotion on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMY52XYN "It’s the end of the world as we know it—and in a way we’ve never experienced it." —Mark Brazaitis, author of American Seasons and The Incurables: Stories 💙📚 🪐📚

If you’re into historical nonfiction and tense action, Doyle Glass’s Swift Sword, telling the story of the Marines of Mike 3/5 in Vietnam, is both tightly researched and gripping, seamlessly blending scene with the words of the men who were there. Available now bit.ly/swiftsword

Announcing @laralillibridge.bsky.social as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! See her work at laralillibridge.com, and send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.

Congrats and good luck to our 2024 Pushcart nominations! JA Sauvageau, Joyce Victor, Dante Di Stefano, Luisa Barron, @marjoriemaddox, & Alberto Saldaña Uribe slipperyelm.findlay.edu/pushcarts-20... Contest submissions for our 2025 issue are open now: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit