P.O. Box 2071
Dept. W-1
Niagara Falls, New York
14301
Editors: Robert Borgatti Livio Farallo Dan Sicoli
Slipstream Magazine is a yearly anthology of some of the best poetry you'll find today in the American small press.
A single issue of Slipstream costs $10 and generally consists of 75 to 100 pages of poetry, fiction and artwork. Subscriptions are $20 and include two issues of the magazine plus the two most recent chapbooks.
Founded in 1980, Slipstream features the work of both new and established writers. Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Wanda Coleman, Lyn Lifshin, David Chorlton, Jim Daniels, Ron Koertge, Sean Dougherty and Sherman Alexie are among the many writers whose work has appeared in the pages of Slipstream.
Slipstream welcomes the submission of poetry, black & white photography and artwork throughout the year. All rights revert to author/artist upon publication and payment is one copy of the issue in which your work appears.
Simultaneous submissions and previously-published works are acceptable with acknowledgements.
Theme Issue Planned for 2011
Slipstream is now accepting poetry submissions for its first theme issue in several years. We seek work exploring SEX-FOOD-DEATH. Originally examined back in Issue 14, the theme was so popular we have decided to revisit it. Your interpretation may include one, two, or all three of the subjects. No previously published work. All submissions must include a SASE for response.
Deadline for submissions is: MARCH 1, 2011.
Submissions Sought for Upcoming Issue #30
We also are now accepting submissions for our next general issue to be published in 2010. This will be Slipstream's 30th anniversary issue.
Address all orders, queries, and submissions to:
Slipstream Dept. W-1 P.O. Box 2071 Niagara Falls, New York 14301
Annual Poetry Chapbook Contest
The annual Slipstream poetry contest offers a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of your book. Deadline is Dec. 1 every year. Everyone who enters the poetry contest receives a copy of the winning chapbook plus one complimentary issue of Slipstream magazine.
The winner of the contest is announced in late spring/early summer. The book and author are featured prominently on the Slipstream website for one year, as well as in all Slipstream catalogs, press releases, and promotional materials.
Winning chapbooks are submitted by Slipstream for review by various national and international poetry/writing publications and may also be featured in the Grants and Awards section of Poets & Writers magazine
Send up to 40 pages of poetry: any style, format, or theme.
Slipstream Press is pleased to announce that David Chorlton, of Phoenix, Arizona, is the winner of its 2009 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Chorlton will receive a $1,000 prize,
along with 50 copies of hischapbook, which is titled From the Age of Miracles. Books are curently being printed and should be ready to ship within the next few weeks.
All poets who enter the Slipstream competition will receive a complimentary copy of the winning chapbook along with the latest edition of Slipstream magazine.
Stephanie Dickinson, author of the books Half Girl and Corn Goddess writes: Chorlton is one of America’s finest poets and in this superb work he combines classical restraint with an impassioned meditation. He mourns the diminished present, the sublimation of the spiritual/animist in the material, and the loss of artistry, memory and meaning. The past speaks to the poet and he translates its myriad voices in sublime, graceful language. For purity and searing prophesy Chorlton is our William Blake.
David Chorlton came to Phoenix from Europe in 1978 with his wife Roberta, an Arizona native. He quickly became comfortable with the climate while adjusting to the New World took longer. Writing and reading poetry have helped immensely in that respect, as has exposure to the American small presses. Arizona’s landscape and wildlife became increasingly important to him both as a source of pleasure and a measure of how precarious the natural world is. Thirty years ago he regarded the idea of “nature poetry” as one tainted with sentimentality but today it appears ever more necessary as an element of resistance to the conformity that Edward Abbey confronted so well in his writings on the Southwest. Chorlton’s preference may be to write about the desert’s mystery but he can’t quite pull free of Pasolini’s statement of belief only in opposition.
Last year's Slipstream Chapbook Contest winner was Carrie Shipers of Lincoln, Nebraska, for her collection of poetry entitled Rescue Conditions.
About Shipers, Hilda Raz writes: "At once feisty and powerful, Carrie Shipers’s poems help us remember secret warnings we learn as children: to love hard
against violence, to take what we get, to escape when we can, to remember every detail for a brilliant imagination to unpack and revive: 'stories they
lived without learning/what they meant.' At last we have a poet to teach us what she learned, that 'what’s broken matters less than how it heals.'
To read Rescue Conditions is to experience the pure joy of recovering family identities—as heroes, outlaws, lovers, and tender citizens—
through art."
Carrie Shipers is a doctoral candidate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches in the English department and works on the staff of Prairie Schooner. Her first chapbook, Ghost-Writing, was published by Pudding House in 2007. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review,
and Mid-American Review among other literary journals and magazines.
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The annual Slipstream poetry contest offers a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of your book. Deadline is Dec. 1 every year. Everyone who enters the poetry contest receives a copy of the winning chapbook plus one complimentary issue of Slipstream magazine.
David Chorlton came to Phoenix from Europe in 1978 with his wife Roberta, an Arizona native. He quickly became comfortable with the climate while adjusting to the New World took longer. Writing and reading poetry have helped immensely in that respect, as has exposure to the American small presses. Arizona’s landscape and wildlife became increasingly important to him both as a source of pleasure and a measure of how precarious the natural world is. Thirty years ago he regarded the idea of “nature poetry” as one tainted with sentimentality but today it appears ever more necessary as an element of resistance to the conformity that Edward Abbey confronted so well in his writings on the Southwest. Chorlton’s preference may be to write about the desert’s mystery but he can’t quite pull free of Pasolini’s statement of belief only in opposition.
Last year's Slipstream Chapbook Contest winner was Carrie Shipers of Lincoln, Nebraska, for her collection of poetry entitled 
