2016 Slippery Elm Prize in Prose Finalists
We’d like to honor the rest of the finalists from this year’s Prose contest. Our finalists for the 2016 Slippery Elm Prize in Prose were: “39 Lashes: Just Write Something About Your Mother” by Lara Lillibridge – Winner “Chinchilla” by Ali McGhee “That Thing” by Anita Cabrera “Will-o’-the-Wisp” by T.D.…
Online Edition: About the Scale of Things
Lucía Damacela’s work has been published in English and Spanish in the US, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Spain, in venues such as Slippery Elm, Cha, Bunbury Magazine, Duende, and more. She is the recipient of the Wisehouse International Poetry Award 2016, and two of her short stories have…
Diving Lessons
Tammy Delatorre’s essay “Diving Lessons,” winner of the 2015 Slippery Elm Prize, has made the Notable list of Best American Essays 2016! Read Tammy’s winning piece here. For this reader, “Diving Lessons” is the kind of prose that uses narrative drive to guide the reader through the messy, cyclical, and…