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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 Read more

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 Read more

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 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 Read more

Three undergraduate SLAB staff members attended AWP in Tampa this year: Managing Editors Danielle McDermott and Jess Holzapfel, and Assistant Managing Editor Jenna Moses. In addition to working at the SLAB bookfair booth, they attended several panels. Here are their takes on a few favorites. Creatures from the Black Lagoon: Read more

This Wednesday, April 4th 2018 at Alumni House – 7:30PM – Slippery Rock University Kerry Neville will read from her new fiction collection, Remember to Forget Me. Plus pick up new issues of SLAB, The Roxy, and RSP (and as always, free admission & free delicious cake) Sponsored by the Read more

SLAB is excited to be attending the Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, and we cannot wait to meet our former and future contributors! March 7-10, the SLAB Staff will be in Tampa, Florida with a booth set up at the AWP bookfair. We’ll be at booth #1705 with Read more