Subnivean

09/09/2025

Read “Aquarium” and other poems by Donna Steiner in Issue 1 of Subnivean! Link in comments 🐠☀️ Illustration by Carly Lawler

18/06/2025

Read “Monstrous” by Simona Zaretsky in Issue 11 of Subnivean! Link in comments 🐙🏠 Illustration by Ivy Ligon

13/06/2025

Out now! 🫶 In Subnivean, Issue 12: Marge Piercy reminds us that we still like gods who have faces. Abubakar Auwal means light. Ace Chu puts time in his pocket and pats it flat. Once Madeline Rosales adds all the shadows to the trees, Michael Loyd Gray’s hunters emerge from the forest. J.M. Braun works the nails out of the coffin with a butter knife, and after George Goetz breaks it to us that Mr. Pelletier has mysteriously disappeared, we sit down at his neighbors’ dinner table—where Jaime Gill wants to play The Drinking Game. B. Fulton Jennes wears a prayer shawl of regret, while Paige Blair’s brown Judas kisses Jesus. (Will Dan Rivas play Jesus in the pageant?) The last customer asks Neha Rayamajhi where she’s from as she cleans his table. Alayna Powell's white friends keep telling her she's beautiful. Sara R. Burnett brings us back to grade school to unlearn everything. When we don’t know the first thing anymore, we ask EJ Green, “Show us.” And they do. Meanwhile, Laura Leigh Morris murmurs the lie “It’s pretend. It’s only pretend,” because that’s all she has to give.

Subnivean. Adj: situated or transpiring under the snow. Noun: an international publication housed at SUNY Oswego, elevating and amplifying high-caliber literature.

03/06/2025

Check out our latest issue, where you can play The Drinking Game...

Subnivean, SUNY Oswego’s student-staffed digital publication known in 62 countries, has announced the winners of the fifth annual Subnivean Awards.

07/05/2025

Read “Nasser Hospital | 2023” and other poems by Truth Thomas in Issue 11 of Subnivean! https://www.subnivean.org/post/truth-thomas 🛏️ 🎵 Illustration by Ivy Ligon

06/05/2025

Read “Nasser Hospital | 2023” and other poems by Truth Thomas in Issue 11 of Subnivean! 🛏️ 🎵 https://www.subnivean.org/post/truth-thomas

30/04/2025

Come as you are! 📖🎙

Tune in, cameras off: we won't show audience faces. So, laze in your PJs, do the dishes or tinker with a spreadsheet as you listen to the masterful stories and poems that made it to the finalist round of Subnivean's international literary competition...

Just 💥 click this Zoom link at 4pm PT / 7pm ET https://oswego-edu.zoom.us/j/98111037268 💥 and get read to like a baby at bedtime!

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24/04/2025

Read “Putting My Dead Mom's Dog to Sleep” and other poems by Megan Merchant in Issue 1 of Subnivean! 🐕 🖤 Illustration by Carly Lawler https://www.subnivean.org/megan-merchant-dead-moms-dog

23/04/2025

Read “Putting My Dead Mom's Dog to Sleep” and other poems by Megan Merchant in Issue 1 of Subnivean! 🐕 🖤 https://www.subnivean.org/megan-merchant-dead-moms-dog

22/04/2025

Wanna get read to like a baby at bedtime? 📖 🌜Subnivean is proud to announce our fifth annual Subnivean Awards finalists, and to invite you to a literary reading where we will celebrate their masterful work and announce the winners in poetry and fiction:

On Wednesday, April 30, SUNY Oswego students Marie Sova and Lily Tringali will cohost the 2025 Subnivean Awards event honoring six international literary competition finalists and naming winners in poetry and fiction. This virtual event, featuring readings by the finalist authors, will be free and o...

16/04/2025

Readers, listeners and viewers, hello! Subnivean took a big break from our socials (we've been nose-to-grindstone on Issue 12 as we breathlessly await the judges' 2025 Subnivean Awards announcement) but we're back: Read “San Marcos Zorrillos and the Moon” by Charles Haddox in Issue 7 of Subnivean. Link in comments 🌔🚀Illustrations by Ivy Ligon (left) and Carly Lawler (right)

21/02/2025

Last call for Subnivean Awards poems and stories!

Sponsored > LAST CALL FOR THE SUBNIVEAN AWARDS IN FICTION AND POETRY

The 2024-2025 Subnivean Awards in fiction and poetry will close tomorrow, February 21, at 11:59pm Eastern US Time. We look forward to reading work that rocks our socks off! To date, Subnivean has received manuscripts from writers in 60+ countries and every US state, as well as Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands: whoever you are, wherever you are, we are always grateful for the opportunity to read your work. Entry fee: $7.

Five finalists' work will be forwarded on to the final judges in poetry and fiction, published in the May 2025 issue, and featured in a virtual event to be promoted to thousands.

Two winners (one in poetry, one in fiction) will receive the above, $150, and a blurb by the appropriate final judge.

https://www.subnivean.org/submissions with Submittable