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