Contest closes at midnight tonight!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · 2w ago

We love the videopoems and hypertexts, but audio-only pieces can be cool too--like this one slipperyelm.findlay.edu/the-sound-of... by Richard Fox, an Honorable Mention last year. Our 2026 Contest closes TONIGHT! Cash prizes, and we publish a deep list of HMs. slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Here's "The Fabulist Deconstructed Dreamhouse," multimedia collage by Tara Roeder, winner of last year's Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/the-fabulist... Our 2026 Contest closes September 30--send us your work via Submittable at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Slippery Elm's Multimedia Contest closes Sept. 30!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest closes Sept. 30! See last year's winners here: slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle... ...and send us your best work that we can't do in print, via Submittable here: slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Looking forward to teaching this online class for The Porch writers' collective in November! More info on their website, here: www.porchtn.org/class/charac...

Calling all NW Ohio Creative Writers! We're offering a free one-day workshop for students and community members writing in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Horror, and more, on June 27th. More info: tinyurl.com/ypkknb8u Email essinger@findlay.edu to register. Please share!

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Calling all NW Ohio Creative Writers! We're offering a free one-day workshop for students and community members writing in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Horror, and more, in Findlay on June 27th. More info: tinyurl.com/ypkknb8u Email essinger@findlay.edu to register. Please share!

Congrats to the 2026 winners of the AWP Intro Journals Project! Visit our website to see the winners—chosen by judges @crivera.bsky.social (CNF), @goldengxl.bsky.social (fiction), and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social (poetry)—and where their pieces will be published!

2026 AWP Intro Journals Project Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project! Winners were selected by Allegra Solomon (fiction), Christina Rivera (creative nonfiction), and Han VanderHart (poetry).

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Happy Easter!

OK! Who wants to come work with me? University of Findlay is hiring for someone to teach Creative Writing and Technical Communication. findlay.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Assistant Professor of English

If you are a current University employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job Description The University of Findlay invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure tra...

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Slippery Elm is off to #AWP26! Come see us at T839 in the Book Fair!

It's almost #AWP26! I'll be presenting on "A Psalm for the Wild Teacher: Building Genre Fiction Workshops That Inspire" Thurs 10:35, signing books at Main Street Rag's table 749 2:30-4 that afternoon, hanging out at @slipperyelmlj.bsky.social T839 the rest of the afternoons, and at large in B-more!

I'm looking forward to teaching this craft talk and mini-workshop on "Genre and Worldbuilding in Fiction" March 10, in Zoom for @literarycleveland.bsky.social! 6:30-8:30pm, $35 or $25 for members, spaces still open! www.litcleveland.org/classes-work...

Genre and Worldbuilding in Fiction - Classes & Workshops | Literary Cleveland

We will discuss emerging and established iconography of various genres, and ways writers can work within and beyond these existing languages to establish worlds

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Someday this war is gonna end.

Last call, everybody!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here we go, last call--submissions for Slippery Elm 2026 close at midnight Eastern, tonight, Feb. 1! ALL CATEGORIES are open again for the last 24 hours. slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

oac.ohio.gov/home/news-an... Thrilled and grateful to the Ohio Arts Council for this Individual Artists support for 2026! This validation for the opening chapters of my new novel Compassion Fatigue, from people who recognize what I'm writing about, is especially meaningful.

This is true, we do great galleys!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Top 10 Reasons to submit to Slippery Elm by Feb. 1 Reason #5: Does every journal send you galleys for approval before publication? We copy edit carefully, and work with every author on exactly how each piece will look, before the issue goes to press. slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Announcing Lawrence Coates as judge of the next Slippery Elm Prize in Prose! See his work at lawrencecoates.com, and send us your best by Feb. 1st at slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit.

Winners of our Deanna Tulley Multimedia Contest are LIVE at slipperyelm.findlay.edu/deanna-tulle... ! Check out these works by Tara Roeder, David Ian Bickley, and Amy Monaghan, and send us something for our 2026 print issue--subs open until Feb. 1! slipperyelm.submittable.com/submit

Looking for a unique Xmas gift for someone who runs and/or reads? Can I suggest a signed copy of my novel about ultrarunning, Running Out? dave-essinger.com/where-to-buy/ For a signed copy, email me at dbessinger@gmail.com for a discount off cover price. Thanks!

Looking forward to reading from my latest novel tomorrow at BGSU's Winter Wheat! Honored to be invited to the 25th anniversary of this fantastic conference and writing festival, in assocation with @midamericanreview.bsky.social! Here's the pre-reading interview: casit.bgsu.edu/marblog/an-i...

Hope to see you next Tuesday Nov. 11 at the MCPA for Slippery Elm's 2025 release party!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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...

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?

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…

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Yes, even if the government shuts down....

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Slippery Elm's annual Multimedia Contest closes Tuesday!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Slippery Elm's 2025 Multimedia Contest closes next week!

Slippery Elm@slipperyelmlj.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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

Thrilled that our panel was accepted for AWP Baltimore! @jpullen19.bsky.social @dave-essinger.bsky.social @joybaglio.bsky.social #AWP26 #EduSky

After eighteen years and one month and one day: our daughter June has achieved escape velocity. Here are pics of moving her in to her Oberlin dorm room today.

A bald eagle circled low over me on my run again, and it feels more insistent every time it happens. And I'm like, dang Sam, I know somebody needs to save this country already, but have you seen my to-do list? Maybe, try another Chosen One, 'K, please-and-thanks? Metaphor's not really subtle though.