Slippery Elm Prize Winner Announced in Prose
Congratulations to Broderick Eaton, for her story “The Baby on the Train,” chosen by this year’s judge Lawrence Coates! Lawrence says: “The Baby on the Train” is a well-researched story set in the fraught times before the outbreak of World War Two. The author creates a suspenseful and compelling narrative…
Announcing 2026 Poetry Finalists!
Here are our Finalists in the 2026 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest: “Faith” by Terri Niccum “Drowning Lessons” by Rachel Fan “Manna” by Kira Trainor “V” by Ray McNiece “Liturgy of Bees” by Danelle Lejeune “Rosemary Kennedy in the Birth Canal, September 13, 1918” by Erica Manto-Paulson “The Business of Gifting…
Prose Contest Finalists!
Here are our Finalists in the 2026 Slippery Elm Prose Contest: “The Baby on the Train” by Broderick Eaton “The Repast” by Kaitlin Ruether “Trace Evidence” by Darcy Alvey “The Squatter” by Betty Cotter “Astral Travelers” by Alexander Weinstein “Ephemerals” by Susanna Byrd These stories have been sent…