Here are our Finalists in the 2021 Slippery Elm Prose Contest: “Belladonna” by Alison Louise Hubbard “Stay Out, Stay Alive” by Jasmine Beul “Rosary” by Ed Davis “Casaruja” by Hannah Bercovici “Candied Almonds on My Way to Rome” by Mariano Zaro These stories and essays have been sent to judge Gina Willner-Pardo, and we’ll have…

Here are our Finalists in the 2021 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest: “Uncanny” by Paula Lambert “Trench” by Benjamin Busch “The One and the Many” by Naomi Lowinsky “In Your Stars” by Naomi Lowinsky “Perturbances” by Mary O’Melveny “Kettle of Fish” by Mara Grayson “I Never Pushed My Daughter” by Tom Hunley “Happiness, Inc.” by Adrie…

Susanna Lang’s chapbook Self-Portraits, which appears as the first of three chapbooks in Blue Lyra Press’s Delphi Series Vol. IX, is a grouping of twenty-five short poems, all inspired by the artwork and lives of women artists. Specifically, each poem is based on either a specific work of art by a woman, or by visits…