Salamander 2025 Fiction Contest

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Half Hitch

Fiction
  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…

Away the Birds

Fiction
  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 Fiction Contest Winners

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,…

Salamander Fiction Contest 2017 Results

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…

Ducks

poetry
  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.…

Birthday

poetry
  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…

Phoebe

poetry
  At the clinic, a nurse taps my veins and they find their tiny voices. Blood sweeps into the vial and a chunk of snow slides from my boot. The…

Passages

poetry
  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,…

Montana

poetry
  This entry is about the U.S. state of Montana. For other uses, see Montana (disambiguation). "Big Sky Country" redirects here. For the song by Chris Whitley, see Big Sky…