Hunger Mountain

Hunger Mountain Hunger Mountain is an online journal of the arts. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, an We also offer a paid Hunger Mountain Fellowship.

Hunger Mountain is both a print and online journal of the arts. We publish fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, visual art, young adult, and children’s writing, and literary odds and ends. Our print issue comes out annually in the fall, and our online content changes on a regular basis. For information about our current editors, check out our Hunger Mountain masthead. Our mission is to cultivate

engagement with and conversation about the arts by publishing high-quality, innovative literary and visual art by both established and emerging artists, and by offering opportunities for interactivity and discourse. The Hunger Mountain editorial offices are located at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in historical Montpelier, Vermont. Vermont College of Fine Arts is devoted entirely to graduate fine arts education, with MFA programs in Writing, Writing for Children & Young Adults, Film, Visual Art, Graphic Design, and Music Composition. Past contributors to Hunger Mountain include Pinckney Benedict, Ron Carlson, Hayden Carruth, Kwame Dawes, Matthew Dickman, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes, Alice Hoffman, Pam Houston, Maxine Kumin, Dorianne Laux, Bret Lott, Michael Martone, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tomaž Šalamun, Charles Simic, James Tate, Jean Valentine, and too many splendid writers to name here. We love to publish never-before-published authors as well, and often find pieces we love in our unsolicited submissions. Hunger Mountain hosts four annual writing prizes, which are open to all writers: the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize (deadline June 30), the Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry (deadline December 10), and the Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing (deadline June 30), and the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize (deadline September 10). Hunger Mountain was started in 2002 by founding editor Caroline Mercurio through a generous donation from a Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing alumnus. The journal has thrived since then with the assistance of MFA in writing faculty and ongoing support from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, VCFA alums, and friends of Hunger Mountain.

5 more days to submit to HM's Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contests!$500 prize for 1st-place winners. Public...
08/26/2024

5 more days to submit to HM's Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry Contests!

$500 prize for 1st-place winners. Publication in HM for 1st-place winners and runner-ups.

https://hungermtn.submittable.com/submit

"Hybrid is less of a genre than a rejection of genre. It’s about rejecting simplification—the simplification that happen...
03/18/2024

"Hybrid is less of a genre than a rejection of genre. It’s about rejecting simplification—the simplification that happens every time we label something—and embracing complexity." - Myrth Killingsworth, Hybrid Editor

Submit by 5/1! https://hungermtn.submittable.com/submit

We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Katherine Paterson Prize winner, Jess Rinker, and runner-up, Adrianna Gordey, all j...
01/04/2024

We are thrilled to announce our 2023 Katherine Paterson Prize winner, Jess Rinker, and runner-up, Adrianna Gordey, all judged by the wonderful Ann Dávila Cardinal 🎉🎉🎉 https://bit.ly/47lphKH

"I’m looking for narrative, rhetorical, and lyrical strategies through which to explore, describe, and represent trauma ...
11/22/2023

"I’m looking for narrative, rhetorical, and lyrical strategies through which to explore, describe, and represent trauma on the page. Exhibitions became a series of attempts to pin down trauma, to make it stay in place long enough to study it." -Jehanne Dubrow

"Self-Contradiction and the Amorality of Beauty Within Atrocity: An Interview with Jehanne Dubrow" is live now 👇 https://bit.ly/47quJN9

Adam McOmber Vermont College of Fine Arts Jehanne Dubrow

08/16/2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 31! Submit today. VCFA alum can submit 3 years after graduation date. Good luck!

"What we often remember most, what we look back on, are the events that break up the routine—the ceremonies, the illness...
08/14/2023

"What we often remember most, what we look back on, are the events that break up the routine—the ceremonies, the illnesses and accidents, the vacations, road trips, parties, surgeries—and the sense of loss that encroaches as we age." -Christine Sneed

https://hungermtn.netlify.app/articles/christine-sneed/

Vermont College of Fine Arts Adam McOmber

Our contests are open through 8/15! Submit your best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and YA/Children's literature ...
08/09/2023

Our contests are open through 8/15! Submit your best fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and YA/Children's literature for $500 and publication ✍️👇
https://hungermtn.submittable.com/submit

Adam McOmber Vermont College of Fine Arts

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The graduate students in the Writing & Publishing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts create Hunger Mountain, & we have a voracious desire to elevate the best of today’s literature. VCFA is the only college devoted exclusively to graduate fine arts education, & the W&P program is the only residential program where students live full-time on our historic campus in Montpelier, at the base of Mount Hunger. The editors of Hunger Mountain share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience & have the ability not only to reflect reality but also to create it.

Students in our Publishing & Fieldwork class are offered the rare opportunity to experience the complete creation of a literary journal: reading submissions, choosing writing, deciding the look & feel of the print journal, & promoting the magazine. Each themed issue is designed by a different student in VCFA’s MFA program in Graphic Design, & we aim to make them as beautiful—& by that we mean as striking, & maybe strange—as the writing inside. Writing & Publishing students also create content for Hunger Mountain Online, including interviews, reviews, & craft essays. Our Masthead changes annually, & our revolving Guest Editors & Contest Judges reach into their literary communities & help make them part of ours. This allows for aesthetic flexibility, guided by our steady ethics: promoting voices that have gone unheard, expanding our representation & scope, & critically examining our contemporary culture & our field.

We are dedicated to transparency, & we value vulnerability, adventure, & accessibility. Writing submitted to us will be thoroughly & open-heartedly read by at least two members of our community, & unlike many literary journals we reserve roughly 50% of each issue for unsolicited work. We are run by the future of the literary world, & we take great pride in discovering new voices, as well as publishing the freshest work from established artists.