Spring What passes for weather is cold and slick, the spit and runnel of raindrops. Padilla Bay reflects early sprigs of forsythia, yellow spikes bouncing on stems. A…
Stevie and I, we live in Fischel’s attic now. It’s small but we don’t need much. There’s room enough for a wobbly nightstand and a chair we’ve piled over…
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…
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,…
Winner Cady Vishniac, "Girls Girls Girls" Honorable Mention Jared Lipof, "Mastermind" Finalists Michael Mark, "A Good Man" Laura Farnsworth, "Carlsbad" Tom Howard, "Scarecrows" Neha Chaudhary-Kamdar, "Seventeen Things About My Friend…
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…
In the morning which is a hill in yellow April without you I enter the light that’s angling against half a year’s winter; wisteria’s tangled in the bittersweet.…
It’s evening; the sun is slipping in the colored sky over the mall lot and the stores are closing; shoppers push their last things across the tarmac. It’s your…
The power plant howls everyone’s hour, portions labor and myth. A salsa quintet rehearses on the plaza stage. The figure on someone’s tablet screen says, we now,…
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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…