Slippery Elm Prize Winner Announced in Poetry
Congratulations to Renée M. Schell for her poem “The Scarf,” chosen by this year’s judge Timothy Geiger! Tim says, “The complexity of “The Scarf,” with its confession and subtle remorse, and its time-shift memory drawing back to that harrowing moment of maternal concern–-concluding in the beautiful image of the scarf’s…
Announcing 2025 Poetry Finalists!
Here are our Finalists in the 2025 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest: “If Music Is the Sound Between” by Svetlana Litvinchuk “Plymouth Fury” by Richard Hague “The Call of the Tame” by Michael Jewell “The Scarf” by Renee Schell “Cloud in 9” by Mary Buchinger “The Poet Resists His Own Instructions…
Slippery Elm Prize Winner Announced in Prose
Congratulations to Victor McConnell, for his story “Before It Gets Cold,” chosen by this year’s judge Lara Lillibridge! Lara says, “’Before it Gets Cold’ is lyrical rumination of the liminal space between day and night, between relationships, and between stagnation and moving on. Throughout this essay the longing for sleep mimics…