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- [Issue No. 20 Available](https://slablitmag.org/issue-no-20-available/): It’s that time of year! Issue 20 is out now, and available for purchase in our online store. This issue features original work by artist Joe Murk and award winning works by Darrah Cloud and Molly Stinson. Want a sneak peak?
- [SLAB 2026 Prize in Creative Nonfiction](https://slablitmag.org/slab-2026-prize-in-creative-nonfiction/): It’s that time. SLAB 2026 Prize in Creative Nonfiction. SLAB seeks flash, medium, and traditional-length CNF. First place receives $850 and publication; runner-up receives $500 and publication. Judge: Hattie Fletcher, editor of the monthly True Story magazine. All entries considered for publication. $10 reading fee. Reading period ends April 15, 2026.
- [Introducing SLAB Lingo!](https://slablitmag.org/introducing-slab-lingo/): We are incredibly excited to announce a new branch of SLAB called SLAB Lingo! This new project provides open access materials to those cultivating sensibilities in world languages and the creative arts. We aim to give language teachers, and their students, free access to curated, quality materials for classroom use. Currently, we have original works in translation in American English, Japanese, and Spanish. More original works and languages are coming in the future. Please visit the new site and explore!
- [Announcing the 2025 Boggs Contest Winners](https://slablitmag.org/announcing-the-2025-boggs-contest-winners/): Congratulations to this year’s Boggs Fiction Contest winners. Our winners were selected by Dr. Kerry Neville. Stay tuned for information about the 2026 Contest! First place—Darrah Cloud’s “Rivka Goodman’s Deaths and Birth.” Runner-up— Molly Stinson’s “Homecoming, Love Story.”
- [SLAB Giving Day 2025](https://slablitmag.org/slab-giving-day-2025/): In this era of budget cuts, SLAB is still providing a unique, professionalizing experience for our undergraduate editors, including trips to national conferences like AWP, workshops, and hands-on artist book experiences. To keep this good work going, and to celebrate our twentieth issue (!), we are hoping to raise $3000 for future conference travel, workshops with editors and book artists, and the purchase of publishing equipment like a proofing press so we can utilize our newly acquired boxes of vintage lead type.  We have different tiers of donations (all 100% tax deductible, btw) and gifts we would like to send […]
- [Issue #19 Available Now](https://slablitmag.org/issue-19-available-now/): 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!
- [2025 Boggs Fiction Contest Open](https://slablitmag.org/2025-boggs-fiction-contest-open/): 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.
- [SLAB Archive Live](https://slablitmag.org/slab-archive-live/): 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!
- [SLAB Store Live!](https://slablitmag.org/slab-store-live/): We are very excited to announce our new online store is live! All back issues are priced at $7.00 with free shipping!
- [SLAB 2.0](https://slablitmag.org/slab-2-0/): 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
- [Spring 2021](https://slablitmag.org/spring-2021/): 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.
- [Fall 2020](https://slablitmag.org/fall-2020/): 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 - Release Party - April 3rd - 7:30PM](https://slablitmag.org/slab-release-party-4-3/): SLAB Issue #14 is out now!
- [2019 Poetry Contest Winners!](https://slablitmag.org/2019-poetry-contest-winners/): 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 literature this semester, which has been great so far. We’re just about to wrap up Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey and then move into Alyse Knorr’s Mega-City […]
- [Interviews with Curry Poetry Contest Winner and Runner-Up](https://slablitmag.org/interviews-with-curry-poetry-contest-winner-and-runner-up/): 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 submitted to SLAB for our poetry contest? MATTISON: The poem I submitted to SLAB was mainly influenced by two things, the main one being conversations […]
- [Staff Report from AWP 2018](https://slablitmag.org/staff-report-from-awp-2018/): 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: Feminist Writing from the Deep South of Florida Jess: This panel was interesting in the fact that it centered around a writer’s ties to a geographic location, specifically the southern region of Florida. An aspect of writing that has always wowed me is when a writer manages to perfectly capture a […]
- [Issue 13 Release Party](https://slablitmag.org/issue-13-release-party/): 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 SRU English Department
- [AWP 2018](https://slablitmag.org/awp/): 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 lots of goodies to share. We’ll be selling SLAB T-shirts, keychains, buttons, our current issue #12, back issues, and Vend-o-Rama boxes. If you are a past SLAB contributor, be sure to come visit the staff at our booth, take a photo with us, and get a free issue of SLAB! […]
- [SLAB 2018 Poetry Contest Winners](https://slablitmag.org/slab-2018-poetry-contest-winners-2/): Welcome to our new official blog for all things SLAB! This is our newest way to keep our readers up to date on what SLAB has going on. As another SLAB poetry contest has come to an end, the SLAB staff is excited to announce this year’s winner, Lucian Mattison for his poem “Yet” and runner-up, Mary Liza Hartong for her poem “Ruby Slippery.” Our judge for the Curry Poetry Contest this year was Lori Jakiela. Both poems can be read in Issue 13, which will be released in April. The winner of SLAB’s poetry contest this year was Argentinean-US poet and […]

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- [The Bill Boggs Contest](https://slablitmag.org/boggs-fiction-contest/): The 2026 contest is live! The contest reading period is now through April 15, 2026. The Bill Boggs Contest Guidelines: We encourage you to read over back issues of SLAB to see if your work is akin to the work we have previously published.SLAB is only seeking unpublished work. Our 2026 Judge: Hattie Fletcher, editor of the monthly True Story magazine. First Place: $850 and publication in SLAB. Runner-Up: $500 and publication in SLAB. Contest Rules: All winners will be published in SLAB.All entries considered for publication.All manuscripts are submitted to the readers and judges anonymously.*Current and former students of the […]
- [Staff](https://slablitmag.org/staff/): 2025-2026 Editorial Staff SLAB is edited by students at Slippery Rock University. Managing EditorCostello Keene Assistant Managing Editors of Fiction Miles Tarquinio Sydney Coburn Hannah Huffman Assistant Managing Editors of Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction Hannah Burnsworth Jake Delletro Emma McElhinny Faculty AdvisorsDr. Mark O’Connor and Dr. Seth Lee
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- [Submissions](https://slablitmag.org/submissions/): Guidelines Reading Period: We read fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and text-based graphic art submissions from August 1st through April 15th. Work submitted outside of our reading period will not be read. We encourage you to read over back issues of SLAB to see if your work is akin to the work we have previously published. SLAB is only seeking unpublished work. Contest Submit either a flash, medium, or traditional-length fiction story with a $10.00 reading fee, which includes a two-year subscription. Submit fiction stories through SLAB Submission Manager and complete a $10 entry fee via PayPal. Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions: We accept simultaneous […]
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- [Issue No. 20](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-no-20/): Table of Contents Boggs Fiction Contest Winners Darrah Cloud (first place) Rivka Goodman’s Deaths and Birth ………………………………………………………9 Molly Stinson (runner-up) Homecoming, Love Story…………………………………………………………………176 Fiction Mary Bunten Five to Twelve…………………………………………………………………………………..33 Hannah Barnhart Mother Something Else …………………………………………………………………….58 Sabrina Cleary About 4½ Pounds ……………………………………………………………………………108 Dennis McFadden Bits of Clay …………………………………………………………………………………….152 Scott Bassis A Perfect Lie ………………………………………………………………………………….236 Poetry Ann Cefola The Last Two at Lord & Taylor’s…………………………………………………………17 201 French Verbs ………………………………………………………………………………18 Part of My Life Breaks Away at 40mph ……………………………………………….20 Halve Maen ……………………………………………………………………………………199 Cathy Barber Words ……………………………………………………………………………………………..29 Glass Piano ………………………………………………………………………………………32 Matt Thomas Rubberneck ……………………………………………………………………………………..31 Black Walnut ……………………………………………………………………………………79 James ………………………………………………………………………………………………83 Terry Savoie The Skin Goddess, […]
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- [Issue No. 11](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-11/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, Should: Millie Tullis Finalist, Runner-Up, To the Reader Who Buys Every Fairy Tale Kathleen Williamson Finalist, Honorable Mention, Along the Lake Highway Hope Jordan FICTION Bubbe’s Irish Wake Deirdre Roche Cut and Paste, or Neither S. Frederic Liss The Sorrows of Young Chainsaw Accident Gunnar Jaeck Alexander Todd and the Inexplicable Joys of Never Worrying About Anything Anymore Forever and Ever and Ever Brian Mulligan Emily K. Jones I Found You In Your Eyes Wedding Scrapbook James M. Hilgartner The Forbidden Fruit Maxwell Morgan Ingram Lise Marisol Quintana Mary Sue […]
- [Issue No. 10](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-10/): Table of Contents Issue 10 ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, Nude New Hampshire News Shae Savoy Finalist, Runner-Up, The Real Prairie (Sheyanne National Grassland) Clara Bush FICTION Apocalipskissing Luke M. Jones Bridge Out G. Elizabeth Kretchmer Farmer on His Land Hadeel Salameh Glasnost Jim Brennan Flash Fiction William Orem Once Upon A Time When I Was a Mexican Gilbert Arzola The Edge Randall Brown The Ninth Story Zan Bockes For the Children Ronald J. Pelias Everything I Know of Love I Learned from the Funny Pages Robert Kinerk Leaving Brian DiNuzzo Avenida Balboa, 1999 Ben Feldman The Mechanics […]
- [Issue No. 9](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-9/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, Revisiting December 2001 Lucian Mattison Runner-Up, To Love You is to Vex You Now Lisa M. Cole FICTION The Lonely Gunman Robert Reid Indian Blanket Cynthia Sample A Distant Landscape Debka Colson Two Men and a Gun Frank Scozzari The Wire Dog Mercedes Lawry The Delight in Hazel Ferguson Porter The Road to Great Salvation Molly Kuhn When Eating Peanuts Michael P. McManus Lifted Jenny Robertson Virginia Woolf in the Po-Po-Mo Lit Bitz Joan Connor Reservations Marcy Campbell How to Remove a Lady from Her Seaside Home Pam Wolfson Phillip […]
- [Issue No. 8](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-8/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, (Bodying Forth Kristen Orser Runner-Up, (To Vinny the Lip) Patrick Moran FICTION Moonshine Eve Powers Moth Eve Powers Visibility Eve Powers Pegaso Amélie Olaiz Pegasus (translation) Amélie Olaiz Silver Alert: Blue Honda Accord, Lic Plate DNL-657 David Galef Cinema Verité Rikki Santer Reliquary Bull Garlington Dear Susan Justin Zipprich Absinthe Laurie Michaels The Seduction James Cho We Dream Big the World Joseph Bodie The Remote Zan Bockes Double Yellow Zan Bockes The Glass Piñata Zan Bockes The Lure Teresa Hommel The Things that Happen Next Catherine Sustana Boy John Brown […]
- [Issue No. 7](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-7/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, God Classifies the Fox Meg Cowen Finalist, Runner-Up, Protest at Tahrir Square C. Dylan Basset Finalist, Runner-Up, The Undocumented Meridith Stricker FICTION The New Director Pedro Ponce Five Pixels Emily Bufford Pictures from the Center of the Universe Allie Marini Batts Tundra Robert McParland La Partida Alberto Chimal Departure (translation) Alberto Chimal The Dog Whisperer’s Wife Airea D. Matthews The Dentist’s Wife Airea D. Matthews The Mine Owner’s Wife Airea D. Matthews Water Marjorie Maddox Graduation Charles Rammelkamp 279 Waterloo Street Charles Rafferty The Last Blood Maple Charles Booth Extinction […]
- [Issue No. 6](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-6/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, We All Want Out of This Play Laurel Bastian Finalist Runner-Up, A Father of Young Boys Loses His Father Robert Watson Finalist Runner-Up, Cities Lit By the Waning Moon Matthew McBride FICTION Consumptive Heather Palmer Animals with Expression Richard Chiem What Matters is Not What I Do Chin-Sun Lee Life Coaching Nathan Leslie What You Want Tom Williams Decorations Meredith Sue Willis Mr. Schnell Feels Red Marc Schuster The Salon Richard Holinger If Things Hold Up Debra Nicholson Breathing In John Cravens Stereophonic Bill U’Ren POETRY In His Corn Fields […]
- [Issue No. 4](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-4/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, Sad Sack David Prodell Runner-Up Contestants, Familiar Tongue Roberta Marggraff The Place In Between Jeanne Wagner FICTION The Arsonist Justin Nicholes The Blurbs of Eric Demp Brian Beise The Corset Gia Sola Small Town Fusion David Luoma Small Things Marsha Koretzky Funny, Cry, Happy Robin Caine Death of the Monolith Dustin Harbin Request for Refund Shellie Zacharia   POETRY Unrequited Suejin Suh In The Garden Jim Zimmerman Moon Walking Jane Rosenberg LaForge 3 or 4 Days Mark Wisniewski Lap Dance Jospeh Goosey Rosemary Brown, Friend of Dead Composers Alex Cigale That Light […]
- [Issue No. 3](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-3/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, What Poetry Is Allison Joseph Runner-Up Contestants, Where Time Faltered Maureen Tolman Flannery At the Caliente Tropics Resort Carissa DiGiovanni Finalists, What Not to Write About Dion N. Farquhar The Voice Box Willa Granger Gathering Ingredientst Sandra Soli Sika Landscape II Gerald R. Wheeler FICTION The Gift of Self-Destruction Jackie Ernst Ay D’Lores Renato Escudero For Whom? Allen Gee December Morgan Harlow Out of Breath Susan Kelley Aquamarine Philip Kobylarz The Pursuit of Happiness Laura Miller Between Liquid Julie Mitchell No Multiple Submisssions Michelle Panik O’Neill The Big Date Ed […]
- [Issue No. 2](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-2/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS Winner, Godot goes to Montana Ellaraine Lockie Runner-Up Contestants, Crowing Emily Reardon Here: after Jean Tupper FICTION A Lesson In Fire Chuck Augello Wagging Their Tails Behind Them Craig Sanders Delivered A.M. Heny Duct Tape Gratitude Iam The Chinese Baby Mary McLaughlin Sletcha Old Friends Christina Kapp Biding Time Kay Harris Vic and Twonny Sally Leslie Map Meg Claudel My Shadow and Me David Massengill The Bride of Fensterstock Bayard The Lights, As Expected Sally Pont Little Wolf Laura McCullough We Are Daughters Of The Sun Eva Konstantopoulos POETRY Chicory Barbara […]
- [Issue No. 1](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-1/): Table of Contents ELIZABETH R. CURRY POETRY CONTEST WINNERS: Finalists, Bees Paula Lambert Poets and Criminals Alan Peterson Leaf Falling John Fitzpatrick Fish Crow Allison Joseph Providence Evelyn Ibarra FICTION Goddamnit, that Hurts Brady Rhoades Calm Diane Payne Jump Shari Mastalski The Shivering of Leaves Don Waters A Moving Lunch Martin Lindauer A Moment of Rest Rich Ives So Now You’re Dead Kathie Giorgio Where Have You Been, Katerina Zoshchenko Joe Benevento The Arrival Arlene Sanders
- [Issue No. 17](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-17/): Table of Contents Boggs Curry Fiction Contest Winners Chital Mehta – First Place Damaged Gifts View .PDF William Luvaas – Runner-Up It Runs in the Family View .PDF Fiction Dante DelBene Estuary Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi Pasture Statues Troy Pottgen Happy Hunting Douglas Steward Electronic Alchemy Lenny Levine What’s in a Name? Jon Fotch Bumblebee Ashley Anderson Zipper Pulls Mark Pearce The Ultimate Christmas Story John Fretts Cellar Robert Granader Are You My Son? Maria Wickens Gangster of Love Poetry Sandra Newton Permanence Richard T. Rauch Worth a Lyric J. Tarwood When Rain Falls Rick Kuenning Things to Love Sandra Newton […]
- [Issue No. 18](https://slablitmag.org/product/issue-18/): Table of Contents Boggs Fiction Contest Winners Carrie Esposito – First Place Fairy Tales and Freedom Kerry Jones – Runner-Up Last Night at the Starlight Fiction Joe Baumann Inferno Lilliana Arteaga War at Breakfast Kevin Camp Basketball Player in Semi-Retirement Shayla Frandsen Eternity Road Rick Donahue Red, Right, Return Jeff Richards Blowout J Dan Francis The Cabin in the Valley Emma Uriarte Summer of Ants Jaylon Brooks House Call Rosella Marie Moreno The Haunt and the Hunt Antoinette Constable Something Blue Julia Conover Twitter Comes to Suburbia Templeton Moss The Truth About Dad Amani Attia Apple of My Eye Poetry […]


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