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…
Announcing 2025 Prose Finalists!
Here are our Finalists in the 2025 Slippery Elm Prose Contest: “Tree Assassin” by Erin Striff “Red and White” by Wisteria Deng “The Marks We Leave” by Anne Gudger “Before It Gets Cold” by Victor McConnell “The Coyote Wars” by Bill Smoot “Night Window” by Kathleen Tyler “Hyacinth” by Kerry…