Announcements

A great opportunity to hear West Coast poet Jane Hirshfield read in Boston. She will read at Suffolk University’s Blue Sky Lounge & Commons in Sargent Hall, 5th floor. Sargent Hall is located at 120 Tremont Street. The reading is … Read More

We hope you enjoy the new issue now and over the next months as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together. Watch this space in the next weeks, as some of our writers talk about the genesis of their pieces.

The Suffolk English Department is happy to present David Ferry reading his new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, just out from University of Chicago Press. We hope you can join us at the Suffolk Poetry Center, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, Mildred … Read More

I loved visiting the Metropolitan Museum with my family when I was a young girl. Shortly after I moved to NYC for graduate school, I began writing in the museum while seeing an exhibit or visiting parts of the permanent … Read More

Salamander is so proud to have contributors featured in both the O.Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories 2017! Congratulations to Sonya Larson, whose story “Gabe Dove” (Salamander #43) was chosen as a “Best American Short Story” by … Read More

Please join us for a poetry reading featuring Susan Donnelly, Wendy Drexler, and Holly Guran reading new and recent work, on Wednesday, October 4, 7 p.m., at the Suffolk University Poetry Center/73 Tremont Street/Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd floor The … Read More

  Cady Vishniac is the winner of the 2017 Salamander Fiction Contest with her story “Girls Girls Girls,” and Jared Lipof is the second-place winner with his story “Mastermind.” Of the winning stories, judge Chris Castellani wrote:   “Of the many fine stories … Read More

Our oldest child came at the tail end of a snowstorm so large even my OB was snowed in and unable to reach the hospital in time for his birth. We spent a day and a night cocooned on the … Read More

In 2014, I went on a peace delegation to Palestine where I witnessed the choke-hold of military occupation, and it fundamentally changed how I looked at my privilege–it was no longer just a concept I acknowledged, it was an injustice … Read More

    Salamander and Suffolk University faculty will be participating in the 2017 Massachusetts Poetry Festival in Salem, Massachusetts, on May 5-7. Find us at these events: Small Press and Literary Fair: Saturday, May 6, 11AM-5PM Salamander will have a … Read More

Next week, at Suffolk, Thursday, April 6th, 7 p.m.: Mediterranean Night, a reading at the Poetry Center, Mildred Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston; entrance around the corner on Tremont Place. Olivia Kate Cerrone reading from The Hunger Saint; with … Read More