Salamander 2025 Fiction Contest

SUBMIT: May 1 through June 1, 2025 | READING FEE: $20

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Asking

poetry
  I asked, and the persimmon said, bitter.   I asked, and the bucket said, cast into darkness and rise filled.   I asked, and the dipper said, a dry…

In the Place des Vosges

poetry
  Hid below the rooflines’ ridge, the sun had raised a sort of alpenglow along the brick facades across the square.   Eyes down, reading, I was unaware, until the…

Anne Street

poetry
  I still find the matches holding her place in Gay’s Fables, or Hobbes.  The spines have suffered. Those days, she worked at a desk on the landing, slept on…

Audubon

poetry
  Shooting was needed to bring the bird close to hand, but the first things to alter after death and before the specimen’s arranged, paints prepared, are the eyes that…

2015 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Announcements
Congratulations to all of our Pushcart Prize nominees! “Mooring” by Beth Woodcome Platow, Salamander, vol. 19.2 (poem) “In the Butterfly Garden” by Ciaran Berry, Salamander, vol. 20.1 (poem) “Where the…

Salamander 19.2 Release Party!

Announcements
Join us on Wednesday, June 18, as we celebrate the Salamander Volume 19.2 Release! Wednesday, June 18, at 7:00 p.m. Boston Playwrights' Theatre 949 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston Salamander contributors Beth Woodcome Platow,…