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Salamander presents Disambiguation, a chapbook by Jen Jabaily-Blackburn. Jen Jabaily-Blackburn is the 2024 Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award winner. Generously funded by Suffolk University’s Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Fund,…

  Salamander is thrilled to present Water Gwisin Saves the Earth, a chapbook by Maria S. Picone.   Maria S. Picone is the 2023 Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award…

  Please join Salamander for the Issue #49 Release Party   Thursday, February 20, 2020 6 PM Suffolk University Poetry Center Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor 73 Tremont Street,…

Very excited to announce the finalists and winners of our 2019 Fiction Contest, judged by Wayétu Moore. Thanks so much to all the contest entrants for such high-quality work, to…

Salamander #47 is here! Get a taste for the issue by reading excerpts (see button above). If you don't have the issue yet, we strongly encourage you to purchase a…

  Matthew Dougherty is the winner of the 2018 Salamander Fiction Contest with his story "Tokoloshe," and Heather De Bel is the second-place winner with her story "Listening to Birds."   Of the…

The new issue has been sent out, so if you subscribe or have ordered copies, you should be receiving them shortly. If you are interested in subscribing or purchasing an…

Ben Berman, Danielle Legros Georges, and Kelle Groom, whose poetry appears in recent issues of SALAMANDER, will read from their new and recent work, in honor of SALAMANDER’s 25th anniversary.…

Fred Marchant, George Kalogeris, and Jennifer Barber will be reading at this weekend's Boston Poetry Festival. Details for Friday afternoon are below. For full schedule, please go to: Boston National…

  Please join Salamander for a 25th Anniversary Celebration and Reading Thursday, March 1, 2018 6-8 pm Suffolk University Poetry Center Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor 73 Tremont Street,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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,…

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.…

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…

    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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Please join us for a Salamander Reading at the Mass Poetry Festival, Sunday, May 1st, 10:15-11:15 a.m., featuring Beth Woodcome Platow, Simeon Berry, and Salamander's poetry editor Valerie Duff Old…

DAVID FERRY will be reading on Monday, April 25, 2016, at 7 pm, in the Suffolk University Amenities Room, 73 Tremont Street, 1st floor, Boston (one block from the Park…

A poetry reading by Lisa Sewell, author of Impossible Object (Tenth Gate Prize, 2014) and Jennifer Barber, author of Works on Paper (Tenth Gate Prize, 2015), introduced by Leslie McGrath,…

Salamander will be at the 2016 Bookfair at the AWP Conference in L.A. Our table is #634. West Hall A/B Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S. Figueroa Street. We look…

Poets Melissa Green and Meg Tyler will be reading at the Suffolk University Poetry Center at 7 p.m. on March 23rd. The Poetry Center is located at 73 Tremont Street…

Please join us on Thursday, March 3, at 7 PM, for a reading with two contributors of Salamander Issue #41: poet Gail Mazur and fiction writer Erica Eisen Suffolk University…

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, Nick Flynn will be at Suffolk University with two scheduled events. From 3:30-5 p.m. in the Suffolk University Poetry Center (73 Tremont Street, Boston, the Sawyer…

Salamander is so pleased to announce our 2016 nominations for the Pushcart Prize:   Poetry: Asnia Asim: "Who Are You, Brother?" (forthcoming in issue #41) Gail Mazur: "On Jane Cooper's…

Our new submission period opens October 1st (and goes through April 30th). We're looking forward to it.

Salamander's upcoming reading features Derek JG Williams (poetry) and Peter Brown (the poetry of Emmanuel Merle in translation). Derek JG Williams is an MFA candidate at UMass Boston, where he…

Salamander #40 is here--in the mail to subscribers and available at selected bookstores. We wish you great summer reading, and feel free to be in touch with us either by…

We look forward to the arrival of our new issue (cover image by sculptor Milan Klic).

Go to "Contests" to enter our 2015 fiction contest today. The winning short story, judged by Andre Dubus III, will receive publication in Salamander and a $1,500 prize. Entries accepted…

A reading at Trident Booksellers for Consequence and Salamander magazines, hosted by Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges. Readers include Kevin Bowen, Frannie Lindsay, Jill McDonough, and Daniel Tobin.

Four poets from Suffolk University, graduating senior Mollie Chandler and creative writing faculty Jennifer Barber, George Kalogeris, and Fred Marchant will read from new work, both poems and translations, aiming…

Join Salamander Magazine for a reading by some of its most recent contributors: Ciaran Berry, Leslie McGrath, and Maggie Dietz. This group comes together to celebrate a magazine whose mission,…

The Roundtable at Porter Square Books presents a Q & A with Boston's Literary Magazine Editors featuring editors from Agni, Harvard Review, Post Road, Printer's Devil Review, and Salamander Moderated…

If you're in Minneapolis this week at AWP, please come by and say hello...we'll be at Table #631. See you there!

Mon, March 23rd, 7 p.m., Suffolk University Poetry Center, Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street (entrance around corner on Tremont Place): A Talk by Suffolk Distinguished Visiting Scholar Gabriel Levin. "A…

The Roundtable at Porter Square Books presents a Q & A with Boston's Literary Magazine Editors featuring editors from Agni, Harvard Review, Post Road, Printer's Devil Review, and Salamander Moderated…

Thursday, January 22, 2015, 7:30 p.m., The Modern Theatre at Suffolk University. An evening of international poetry, including works from Vietnam, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Rome, evocatively performed in the…

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…

Join us at the Suffolk University Poetry Center this month for these incredible readings:   Thursday, November 6, 6 PM Suffolk Poetry Center; 3rd Floor 73 Tremont Street Margot Livesey…

Please join us for a celebration that will feature poets Gregory Lawless, Anna Ross, and Jon D. Lee reading from their new books at the Suffolk Poetry Center on Wednesday,…

Salamander presents poets Andrea Cohen, Alan Feldman, and Jeffrey Harrison, at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 8, at Porter Square Books in Cambridge. The reading is part of the Roundtable…

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,…

Join Salamander at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival for a reading by contributors Don Share, Rita Gabis, Jacquelyn Pope, and Chard deNiord. Each of these readers spent a significant part of…

Salamander is happy to announce our 2013 nominees for the Pushcart Prize, celebrating "The Best of the Small Presses": Poetry: “A Flemish Still Life” by Ellen Kaufman, Salamander, vol. 18.2…

We hope you'll join us for a reading on November 14th! Sophie Cabot Black and Greg Delanty will be reading from their recent books, The Exchange and Loosestrife.   7PM…

Join us for a free, open to the public reading on Friday, October 11, at 5:30 for a reading by poets Lee Sharkey and Tess Taylor. They will be reading…

Please join us in celebrating the release of our new issue (20th Anniversary Edition, Part 2), at Newtonville Books on July 1st at 7PM. Poets and contributors Ben Berman and…

Our 2013 Fiction Contest is open! Hop over to our contest page to submit or learn more!   About our judge:   Edith Pearlman has published more than 250 works…

  The Boston literary community comes together to support those most affected by the marathon attack. Join us for a reading by Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate; Sue Miller,…

Come visit Salamander at the Mass Poetry Festival!   The Mass Poetry Festival, held May 3-5 in Salem, Mass., promises to be a fantastic weekend of fun and poetry. For…

SALAMANDER'S 20th BIRTHDAY PARTY: AWP BOSTON! Thursday, March 7th: 7 to 8:15 p.m. Hynes Convention Center, Room 307, Level 3 Wine & hors d’oeuvres Please join us for poetry, fiction,…

Salamander's Nominees for the 2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology:   From Issue 17.2:   David Abrams, "The Bridge" Mary O'Donoghue, "Sand"   From Issue 18.1:   Lynne Butler Oaks, "A Sudden…

Salamander will be sharing a table with Agni this Saturday, October 27, at the Boston Book Festival! Come by and say hello, and take advantage of our combined subscription offer:…

Upcoming Reading at Suffolk University’s Poetry Center:   Aimee Sands and Jennifer Barber Thursday, November 8, 2012, 7 p.m. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (entrance around corner on Tremont…

We're loving the buzz that our all-fiction issue has generated! Check out three reviews of our current issue:   Review by Justin Brouckaert on NewPages.com: http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012/08-15/#Salamander-V17-N2-Summer-2012   Review by Vincent…

Salamander is excited to participate in the 2012 Mass Poetry Festival: April 20-22, in Salem, MA. Among all the fantastic events and festivities (which can be found at http://masspoetry2012.crowdvine.com/calendar), you'll…

The CAS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program, the English Department, and the Creative Writing Program are proud to present the following public events with John F. Deane.     John F. Deane…

Congratulations to past contributor Will Schutt (Volume 15, No. 2), who was chosen as the Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. From yalepress.wordpress.com:   Yale University Press is…

The English Department and the Creative Writing Program at Suffolk University Present:      A Reading by DEB OLIN UNFERTH, the author of the story collection Minor Robberies, the novel…

Stop by and say hello to Salamander at the AWP Chicago bookfair - we've got prime real estate at table M23 in the Southeast Hall. Among the AWPsome benefits of…

Join us on Tuesday, February 21, at 7 pm in the Sawyer Library Poetry Center, 3rd floor, 73 Tremont St., for a reading by fiction writer Siobhan Fallon and poet…

With so many talented contributors, we're very pleased and not at all surprised to announce that many of them have exciting news to announce! Congratulations to Elaine Terranova, whose beautiful…

Welcome to our "Update at a glance," where you'll find the latest book news from our contributors as well as upcoming Salamander readings and events. We look forward to staying…