Salamander

"Summerland" by Taylor Melia Elyse Mahone, published in Issue No.59, has been awarded the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! Congratulations Taylor - so well deserved! 🐊👋🌴🍊✨ pen.org/2026-dau-prize…

Salamander 60 features winners of their 2025 Fiction Contest judged by Helen Phillips as well as lots more new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and an art portfolio by Catherine Graffam. #litmags #literarycommunity #readingcommunity @Salamander_Mag newpages.com/blog/magazines…

@emmabo & @d_c_demaree are also in this issue of @Salamander_Mag with me among fabulous others!

Just realized my story, "Ape Opus," in this issue is available online for a limited time! Link below, and please consider buying the print issue as well! salamandermag.org/ape-opus/

Long-awaited, and so worth it: Salamander #60 is now available in print and online at salamandermag.org. Happy reading and happy holidays to all!

Always so exciting to see work published in Salamander earn more well deserved recognition! Congratulations to Julie Marie Wade, Notable in the Best American Essays, and to Sue McMillan, Distinguished Story in Best American Mystery & Suspense.

@josietolin Thank you so much, Josie - that means so much!

Our upcoming Issue 60 marks the end of an era: Salamander is parting ways with Suffolk University after two decades. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we take a hiatus from reading new submissions, and stay connected with us for updates. 🦎❤️

Always a thrill to share the results of our annual fiction contest: congratulations to winners @KListerCampbell and Ivan Suazo, chosen by contest judge Helen Phillips, and to all of the finalists! It's an honor to read and be trusted with all of your work.

It's the last weekend to submit to our 2025 Fiction Contest! Get those stories in: salamandermag.org/contests

Long weekend, short stories: submit your work to the Salamander Fiction Contest, judged by Helen Phillips, this weekend! Submissions close 6/1. salamandermag.org/contests/

We're hard at work on Issue 60(!) but just put up some new public content from the incredible Issue 59! Read your hearts out here: salamandermag.org/portfolio/issu…

@StephyGrossman 🫶

Found this in my drafts: Highest ranked pub is with @Salamander_Mag at #91 out of 1,000 ☺️🎉 Absolutely loved my experience with them and their fiction editor Katie Sticca 🔗 salamandermag.org/red-on-yellow/

We're so excited to announce that the judge for Salamander's 2025 Fiction Contest will be Helen Phillips, author of The Need and Hum, among other works. Submissions open on May 1! Find more information here: salamandermag.org/contests

Please join us this weekend, 4/13, for a reading of work from our new issue!

Join us this weekend, 4/13 at 3 PM, for a virtual reading to celebrate our new Honey Bear issue🐻Readers include Marcy Rae Henry, @dannylangperez, and Gabrielle Grace Hogan. Register here: tinyurl.com/zy9j4vzd Hope to see you there!

Happy to return home to the new issue of @salamander_mag

I’m so damn honored & stoked to have “Poem Going Rogue — brand new issue @Salamander_Mag —*So Grateful to EIC @JoseAraguz for choosing to highlight it on the site 🙏—My love poem for the mind & heart ✍🏿❤️Check out issue—hard copy too! #WriterCommunity salamandermag.org/poem-going-rog…