Announcements

  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

David Ferry will be reading his poems and translations at the Suffolk University Poetry Center on Thursday, March 30th, at 7 p.m. The Poetry Center is located at Suffolk’s Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (entrance around the … Read More

Yusef Komunyakaa at Suffolk University, January 26 and 27 Thursday, Jan. 26 10:50-12:15 a.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. 73 Tremont St., Boston. “Sorrow Songs” and African American Poetry 1-3 p.m. The Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor. … Read More

Please save the date of Monday, January 2nd, 7 p.m. for the Round Table at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, featuring Salamander and Pangyrus. Fiction writer and memoirist Joan Wickersham, judge of our 2016 Salamander Fiction Contest, will … Read More

Salamander is so pleased to announce our 2017 nominations for the Pushcart Prize:   Poetry: “Abandoned Nest” by Angela Voras-Hills: Salamander #42 “Some Animal Poems for Children to Learn and Sing” by Dan Beachy-Quick: Salamander #42 “The Pages in August” … Read More

Poet Alan Shapiro, author of numerous acclaimed poetry collections, including Reel to Reel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Night of the Republic, a finalist for the National Book Award, will be reading at the Suffolk University Poetry Center … Read More