Slippery Elm
@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social
We're a literary journal out of the University of Findlay, committed to promoting the best fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, & multimedia work by today's writers. https://slipperyelm.findlay.edu/
Slippery Elm 2026 is open for submissions!
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Slippery Elm 2026 is open for submissions!
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
See our website for submission guidelines and more: slipperyelm.findlay.edu
Thanks @jbrookewrites.bsky.social! Loved this poem.
Just received my contributor copy in mail … first time published @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social and honestly this hard copy pub is a WOW— high recommend for anyone valuing read-every-page look-great-on-the-nightstand lit journals! Thanks to the editors and readers!
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thanks @jbrookewrites.bsky.social! Loved this poem.
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
November 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Join us for a release party and reading celebrating Slippery Elm's 2025 issue, at 7pm on Tuesday, November 11th, at the Marathon Center for the Performing Arts in Findlay! www.facebook.com/events/15170...
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There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton!
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Where to Buy
This World and the Next: Print copies are on sale online directly from the publisher, or from the author, and from Jay and Mary’s Book Center in Troy and The Cozy Book Nook in Dayton.Ebook now avai…
dave-essinger.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
There's a new place to buy my books in Dayton!
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Just dropped signed copies of This World and the Next & Running Out at The Cozy Book Nook, new location 1400 E 3rd!
Both books are available digitally too at dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/, but why not support your local indie bookseller?
Last call! Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest closes TONIGHT, Tuesday Sept. 30, at midnight Eastern! Prizes for 1st-3rd, and we publish a deep list of finalists! See past work here slipperyelm.findlay.edu/multimedia-g... and send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last call! Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest closes TONIGHT, Tuesday Sept. 30, at midnight Eastern! Prizes for 1st-3rd, and we publish a deep list of finalists! See past work here slipperyelm.findlay.edu/multimedia-g... and send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Not all the submissions to our Multimedia Contest are complicated high-tech--check out this collage/Word piece from Todd Loughran, a finalist last year: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/voices-in-my...
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Not all the submissions to our Multimedia Contest are complicated high-tech--check out this collage/Word piece from Todd Loughran, a finalist last year: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/voices-in-my...
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, the contest closes TOMORROW, that's 9/30, so send us your best at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Not all of our Multimedia Contest finalists are videopoems--check out last year's winner, audio by Cara Losier Chanoine at carachanoine.wixsite.com/sad-girl-mix...
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Not all of our Multimedia Contest finalists are videopoems--check out last year's winner, audio by Cara Losier Chanoine at carachanoine.wixsite.com/sad-girl-mix...
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
And, send us your own Multimedia work by Sept. 30--that's Tuesday! Submittable link: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Here's "Where Breath Becomes Sound"--videopoem by @melissafitz.bsky.social, finalist in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/where-breath... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Here's "Where Breath Becomes Sound"--videopoem by @melissafitz.bsky.social, finalist in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/where-breath... Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Here's "Starry Night: a Constellation"--videopoem by Christy Sheffield Sanford, 3rd place in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/starry-night...
Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
September 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Here's "Starry Night: a Constellation"--videopoem by Christy Sheffield Sanford, 3rd place in last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/starry-night...
Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Our 2025 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Slippery Elm Submission Manager
Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we...
slipperyelm.submittable.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Our Multimedia Contest is open, for its eighth year! Send us your hypertexts, your nonlinear narratives, your videopoems, your illustrated stories! Surprise us with genres and media we hadn’t even imagined!
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
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You guys! After too long locked away in Audible, my audiobook of Running Out is finally available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on Spotify)!
open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ...
Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ...
Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
Running Out
Dave Essinger · Audiobook
open.spotify.com
July 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
You guys! After too long locked away in Audible, my audiobook of Running Out is finally available at a reasonable price (even discounted right now on Spotify)!
open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ...
Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
open.spotify.com/show/6qTxeXZ...
Also now in Kobo, Nook, Libro.FM, Google Play, Storytel too: dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/
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Hi everyone, my book This World and the Next is available now for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social! books2read.com/b/boznX1
Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Available now at your favorite digital store!
This World and the Next by Dave Essinger
books2read.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Hi everyone, my book This World and the Next is available now for a promotional price at @smashwords.bsky.social! books2read.com/b/boznX1
Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Smashwords is already the best deal for the ebook, with discounts across their whole site during July. www.smashwords.com/shelves/prom... #SWSale2025 #Smashwords
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Hi everyone, my books Running Out & This World and the Next will be promoted on @smashwords.bsky.social in July!
Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion.
books2read.com/b/boznX1
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#SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion.
books2read.com/b/boznX1
💙📚
🪐📚
#SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Available now at your favorite digital store!
This World and the Next by Dave Essinger
books2read.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hi everyone, my books Running Out & This World and the Next will be promoted on @smashwords.bsky.social in July!
Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion.
books2read.com/b/boznX1
💙📚
🪐📚
#SWSale2025 #Smashwords
Smashwords is already the best deal for both ebooks, but they'll be further discounted during the July promotion.
books2read.com/b/boznX1
💙📚
🪐📚
#SWSale2025 #Smashwords
We are looking forward to this novella from past Slippery Elm contributor @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social Cameron Mitchell!
Print preorder is open now, but it looks like the advance ebook is a great deal too!
Print preorder is open now, but it looks like the advance ebook is a great deal too!
My book 'The Last Way'
published by @querenciapress.bsky.social
Available for pre-order now!
#Books #Booksky #fiction #SouthernFiction #BlueskyBooks #writingcommunity #amwriting #NorthCarolina #TheLastWay
published by @querenciapress.bsky.social
Available for pre-order now!
#Books #Booksky #fiction #SouthernFiction #BlueskyBooks #writingcommunity #amwriting #NorthCarolina #TheLastWay
The Last Way by Cameron L. Mitchell — Querencia Press
A young boy in a small southern town plans to kill his father, a violently unpredictable man, who has become such a menacing force that both the boy and his mother live in a near constant state of fea...
www.querenciapress.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
We are looking forward to this novella from past Slippery Elm contributor @cameronlmitchell.bsky.social Cameron Mitchell!
Print preorder is open now, but it looks like the advance ebook is a great deal too!
Print preorder is open now, but it looks like the advance ebook is a great deal too!
We have a winner in our 2025 Poetry Contest! Congratulations to Renée M. Schell for her poem "The Scarf," chosen by this year's judge Timothy Geiger!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
May 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
We have a winner in our 2025 Poetry Contest! Congratulations to Renée M. Schell for her poem "The Scarf," chosen by this year's judge Timothy Geiger!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
We have Finalists in our Poetry contest!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
May 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We have Finalists in our Poetry contest!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
We have a winner in our 2025 Prose Contest! Congratulations to Victor McConnell, for his story "Before It Gets Cold," chosen by this year's judge @laralillibridge.bsky.social!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We have a winner in our 2025 Prose Contest! Congratulations to Victor McConnell, for his story "Before It Gets Cold," chosen by this year's judge @laralillibridge.bsky.social!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
Thanks to all who entered, as we continue to build our 2025 issue!
We have Finalists in our Prose contest!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
April 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We have Finalists in our Prose contest!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/announcing-2...
We're working hard on the rest of the issue, and hope to have a winner to announce soon. Congratulations to our finalists, and thanks to all who entered!
We're at AWP! Table 711, come say hello!
March 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
We're at AWP! Table 711, come say hello!
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Woohoo, it's AWP in LA! Looking forward to reading from the new book tomorrow (Thursday) night at MemoryLook Cafe, 6pm PDT: www.facebook.com/events/98151...
Literary Rule Breakers, LA Edition: AWP 2025 Offsite Event
Event in Los Angeles, CA by Jennifer Pullen and 2 others on Thursday, March 27 2025
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March 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Woohoo, it's AWP in LA! Looking forward to reading from the new book tomorrow (Thursday) night at MemoryLook Cafe, 6pm PDT: www.facebook.com/events/98151...
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Lookin' forward the Breakin' the Rules in LA! Come hear several short very subversive excerpts at our AWP off-site, 6pm Thursday at the MemoryLook cafe!
www.facebook.com/events/98151...
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www.facebook.com/events/98151...
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Literary Rule Breakers, LA Edition: AWP 2025 Offsite Event
Event in Los Angeles, CA by Jennifer Pullen and 2 others on Thursday, March 27 2025
www.facebook.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Lookin' forward the Breakin' the Rules in LA! Come hear several short very subversive excerpts at our AWP off-site, 6pm Thursday at the MemoryLook cafe!
www.facebook.com/events/98151...
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www.facebook.com/events/98151...
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We're still working on our 2025 print issue, but check out these newly live Honorable Mentions from our Multimedia Contest, from @colmscully.bsky.social, @margost.bsky.social, Tracy Harris, Casey Killingsworth, Todd Loughran, and @melissafitz.bsky.social!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...
March 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We're still working on our 2025 print issue, but check out these newly live Honorable Mentions from our Multimedia Contest, from @colmscully.bsky.social, @margost.bsky.social, Tracy Harris, Casey Killingsworth, Todd Loughran, and @melissafitz.bsky.social!
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...
slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle...
Last Call! Slippery Elm 2025 submissions close TOMORROW NIGHT, Feb. 1, at midnight Eastern!
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Send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
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Send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
Slippery Elm Submission Manager
Slippery Elm Prize Guidelines $1000 prizes in Poetry & Prose 2025 Judges: Timothy Geiger in Poetry; Lara Lillibridge in Prose Submissions open annually in the fall, and close at midnight EST on Feb...
slipperyelm.submittable.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Last Call! Slippery Elm 2025 submissions close TOMORROW NIGHT, Feb. 1, at midnight Eastern!
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Send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
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Send us your best: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit
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We're excited to welcome @lsevick.bsky.social to campus as part of the University of Findlay's Visiting Writers Series, Wed. Jan 22, 7pm, in the AMU! All are welcome to this free event, with an open mic to follow Leona's reading.
January 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We're excited to welcome @lsevick.bsky.social to campus as part of the University of Findlay's Visiting Writers Series, Wed. Jan 22, 7pm, in the AMU! All are welcome to this free event, with an open mic to follow Leona's reading.