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It’s a new year and a new issue of SLAB. Issue #19 is now available for purchase in our online store. Check it out!

We are now accepting submissions for the 2025 Boggs Fiction Contest. This year we are excited to offer a first prize cash award of $850 and publication in SLAB. Second place is a cash prize of $600 and publication in SLAB. Click here for more information about the contest and submission guidelines. Ready to submit your work? Click here to begin the process.

We are very excited to announce the release of our back issue Archive! All our issues five years or older are now available to view in our digital archive. Like what you see? Purchase back issues in our new online store!

We are very excited to announce our new online store is live! All back issues are priced at $7.00 with free shipping!

Welcome to SLAB’s new website! This represents a ground up overhaul of our digital home. Here’s just a few of our new features: Coming Soon

After a busy fall releasing our 15th edition, decking out our staff with beanies, and a relaxing seven-week winter break, we are getting back into the swing of things. Trudging through the cold, reading through the submissions for the 16th edition. Another big thanks to Brian Holderman for our cover for 15 – check out more of his work here.

Our brains are on fire as we start the Fall 2020 semester🔥🔥 We are looking forward to an interesting semester as well as the EPIC release of the 15th issue of SLAB in October, so to celebrate, here’s another sneak peek at the cover of SLAB 15! Big thanks to artist Brian Holderman for the artwork– check out more of his work here: https://triblive.com/local/Pittsburgh-Allegheny/Pittsburgh-artists-digital-illustrations-installed-at-the-terminal-in-the-strip/

SLAB Issue #14 is out now!

INTRODUCING, THIS YEARS CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNER AND RUNNER UP, PETER PATAPIS AND TIM BARZDITIS! WINNER: PETER PATAPIS RUNNER UP: TIM BARZDITIS BIO: My name is Tim Barzditis (27), and I’ve spent most of life in and around Virginia. Fredericksburg’s where I call home. I’m currently finishing up my MFA in Creative Writing at George Mason University, which is in Fairfax, VA. I’m also teaching a couple of undergrad courses at GMU, mostly intro to Read more…

We thought you might like to get to know our Curry Poetry Contest winner, Lucian Mattison, and runner-up, Mary Liza Hartong, so we reached out to them to discuss what inspired their prize-winning poems. We hope that their influences and passion for writing will in turn inspire our readers to become our next contest winners. Interview with Contest Winner Lucian Mattison Winner: Lucian Mattison, for his poem “Yet” SLAB: What influenced your poem that was Read more…