P.O. Box 2071
Dept. W-1
Niagara Falls, New York
14301
Slipstream Magazine is a yearly anthology of some of the best poetry and fiction 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, Kurt Nimmo, 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.
Slipstream occasionally releases theme issues. We are reading poetry for a general issue through 2008. Until further notice, we are not accepting fiction submissions.
Address all orders, queries, and submissions to:
Slipstream Dept. W-1 P.O. Box 2071 Niagara Falls, New York 14301
2008 Poetry Contest Winner Selected
Slipstream Press is pleased to announce that Carrie Shipers, of Lincoln, Nebraska, is the winner of its 2008 Poetry Chapbook Contest. Shipers will receive a $1,000 prize,
along with 50 copies of her chapbook, which is titled Rescue Conditions. 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.
"Rescue Conditions is the story of a working family living in a small American town. The Gainses are their neighbors to the left; the Losses are their neighbors to the right.
They try hard, love hard, live harder. With these substantial and substantially crafted poems, Carrie Shipers says forget the band-aids, what we need are CPR and a stiff drink.
Her book reaches us just in time." —Kathy Fagan
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.
Last year's Slipstream Chapbook Contest winner was Douglas Goetsch of New York, for his collection of poetry entitled Your Whole Life.
About Goetsch, Jeffrey Harrison writes: "Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness
or the industry of consolation. Instead, Goetsch fearlessly explores the culture at large and his own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually
hide from others and even ourselves."
Goetsch grew up in Northport, Long Island, was educated at Wesleyan University and New York University, and resides in New York City.
He has been on the writing faculty at The Frost Place, The Dodge Poetry Festival, The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway, and numerous other conferences and university programs.
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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.'
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Last year's Slipstream Chapbook Contest winner was Douglas Goetsch of New York, for his collection of poetry entitled 
