Slippery Elm
@SlipperyElmLJ
We're a literary journal committed to promoting the best fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, & multimedia work by today's writers.
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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 Jonie McIntire as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Poetry! See her work at 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-tulley-… ! 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-ou… 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-multimedi… Thanks to all who entered—winners will be announced soon!
Congrats and good luck to our 2025 @PushcartPrize 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 @DebsValidation! It's a really cool poem.
"Appear in @SlipperyElmLJ" can finally be crossed off my to-do list, and I've got the T-shirt to prove it! SE 2025 is available to purchase. If you're near Findlay and amenable to reading poetry, I'm looking for someone to attend the party & stand in for me. Dave did a 👌 layout
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! facebook.com/events/1517072…
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 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-gal… 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-h… 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-t… 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 Melissa Fitzpatrick, finalist in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/where-breath-b… Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable @submishmash 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-a… Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable @submishmash at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Deanna Tulley Multimedia Prize @SlipperyElmLJ (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction Art; pays) opened to fee-based submissions duotrope.com/contest/deanna… #amwriting
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 available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on @Spotify)! open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZGm… Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
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