Soundings East

01/06/2025

11/21/2024

09/08/2024

Thursday Sept 12. Soundings East Launch Party. Viking Hall, Central Campus. 123. 71C Loring Avenue, Salem, MA 01970. Come listen to pieces from the latest volume, meet the new staff, get a copy of SE, have some cake. 6:30 pm.

07/26/2024

Looking for something to add to your summer reading? We can help! The 2024 issue of our national literary magazine Soundings East is available for purchase at $10 per copy. This issue includes the work of Claire Keyes Poetry Award winner Laura Reed and over two dozen works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction.

Order your copy today, by forwarding a check made out to Salem State University to the address below:
Center for Creative and Performing Arts
352 Lafayette Street
Salem, MA 01970



Cover art: Gary Koeppel, The Moment, Oil on linen. 32.5 x40 inches

04/09/2024

2024 Claire Keyes Poetry Award🖋📖

Laura Read of Spokane, WA won the 2024 Claire Keyes Poetry Award. She received $1,000, and her poems will be published in Volume 46 of Soundings East. Maria Mazziotti Gillan judged. The annual award is given for a group of poems. The next deadline is
February 1, 2025.

Laura Read is the author But She Is Also Jane (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023, winner of the Juniper Prize); Dresses from the Old Country (BOA Editions, 2018); Instructions for my Mother‘s Funeral (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Dorianne Laux), and The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You (winner of the Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award, 2011). Recipient of a Washington State Artists Trust Grant, a Florida Review Prize for Poetry, and the Crab Creek Review Prize for Poetry, Laura teaches at Spokane Falls Community College and in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.

01/28/2024

It's our final call for Soundings East submission📢📢📢
You only have FOUR DAYS left to submit your poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction!

Finish those edits, compile your poems, and submit before time runs out🫶🏻

01/17/2024

Soundings East, the international print literary magazine published through Salem State University, is looking for art submissions. We are seeking high-resolution photographs of work (oil painting, monoprint, sculptures, etc.) for our Spring 2024 issue. Please email all submissions, along with a 50-word bio and relevant artist websites/links, to [email protected] by February 5th, 2024.

Soundings East cannot financially compensate writers/artists for their work. If work is accepted for publication, artists receive two contributor copies of the magazine. All work is credited to artist, and artists may elect to have artist websites/links included in their 50-word bio at the back of the issue.