Slipstream Press

12/09/2025

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The deadline is December. 1 at 11:59 PM EST for the annual Slipstream poetry chapbook contest. Winner receives a $1,000 prize plus 25 professionally-printed copies of their book. All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook plus an issue of Slipstream magazine (a $20 value). The book and author are featured prominently on the Slipstream website and page for one year, as well as in all Slipstream catalogs, press releases, and promotional materials. Send up to 40 pages of poetry: any style, format, or theme.
More details at: slipstreampress.org/contest.html

Slipstream publishes some of the best poetry and short fiction you'll find today in the American small press. Our annual poetry chapbook competition offers a $1,000 prize and publication of the manuscript.

12/09/2025

CALL FOR WORK - SCREAMS & WHISPERS
Slipstream is currently reading for Issue #46 from now until May 31, 2026. The issue will be published in fall 2026. We seek poetry that explores the theme "Screams & Whispers." Creative "outside the box" interpretations are highly encouraged. Submit up to five (5) poems in one document file only. We also are seeking artwork for the issue. Please do not submit again until you have received a response on the status of your current submission.
Please refer to our Submission Guidelines to submit: http://www.slipstreampress.org/guide.html

14/07/2025

WINNER ANNOUNCED
Slipstream is pleased to announce that Lenny DellaRocca of Delray Beach, FL has won our 2025 Poetry Chapbook Competition for his collection, "Pandemonium."
As the winner, he will be awarded the $1,000 prize along with 50 copies. We at Slipstream are currently preparing the chapbook for the printer and hope to have it released in September. All entrants will receive a copy of the winning chap, along with the new issue of Slipstream.
Lenny DellaRocca's poems have appeared in several publications, both in print and online, including Seattle Review, Apalachee Quarterly, Slipstream, and others. DellaRocca is a former president of the Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation, poetry correspondent for About.com, assistant editor at Poetry Bay and is the recipient of several poetry prizes. He is a former journalist. He has conducted poetry readings throughout South Florida bringing in nationally and internationally acclaimed poets such as: Yusef Komanyakka, Carolyn Wright, Denise Duhamel, Lyn Lifshin, George Wallace, and others for workshops and readings at many South Florida universities and the Miami Bookfair International.

19/06/2025

CALL FOR WORK - SCREAMS & WHISPERS
Slipstream is currently reading for Issue #46 from now until May 31, 2026. The issue will be published in fall 2026. We seek poetry that explores the theme "Screams & Whispers." Creative "outside the box" interpretations are highly encouraged. Submit up to five (5) poems in one document file only. We also are seeking artwork for the issue. Please do not submit again until you have received a response on the status of your current submission.

Please refer to our Submission Guidelines to submit: http://www.slipstreampress.org/guide.html

14/03/2025

SEEKING WORK - "STRANGE DAYS"
Slipstream is currently reading for Issue #45 from now until May 31, 2025. The issue will be published in fall 2025. We seek poetry that explores the theme "Strange Days." Creative "outside-the-box" interpretations are highly encouraged. Submit up to five (5) poems in one document file only. We also are seeking cover and inside artwork/photography for this issue. Please do not submit again until you have received a response on the status of your current submission.
Please refer to our Submission Guidelines to submit: http://www.slipstreampress.org/contest.html

27/11/2024

ONLY A SHORT TIME LEFT TO SUBMIT!
The deadline is December. 1 at 11:59 PM EST for the annual Slipstream poetry chapbook contest. Winner receives a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of their book. All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook plus an issue of Slipstream magazine (a $20 value). 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. Send up to 40 pages of poetry: any style, format, or theme.
More details at: slipstreampress.org/contest.html

01/11/2024

SLIPSTREAM POETRY CONTEST - DEADLINE DEC. 1
The annual Slipstream poetry chapbook contest offers a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of your book. Deadline is Dec. 1 at 11:59 PM EST. All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook plus an issue of Slipstream magazine (a $20 value). 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. Send up to 40 pages of poetry: any style, format, or theme.
More details at:

Slipstream publishes some of the best poetry and short fiction you'll find today in the American small press. Our annual poetry chapbook competition offers a $1,000 prize and publication of the manuscript.

24/09/2024

HOT OFF THE PRESS
Issue #44 ("Sharps & Flats" theme) of Slipstream Magazine and our 2024 Chapbook Contest winner "Much More Than Time," by Mather Schneider, shipped out today and are now on their way to all contributors, subscribers, and everyone who entered this year's competition. Slipstream's annual book launch party at the Book Corner in Niagara Falls, NY is scheduled for Saturday October 26. Stay tuned for details!

05/08/2024

SLIPSTREAM POETRY CONTEST
The annual Slipstream poetry chapbook contest offers a $1,000 prize plus 50 professionally-printed copies of your book. Deadline is Dec. 1. All entrants receive a copy of the winning chapbook plus a classic issue of Slipstream magazine (a $20 value). 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. Send up to 40 pages of poetry: any style, format, or theme. More details at:

Slipstream publishes some of the best poetry and short fiction you'll find today in the American small press. Our annual poetry chapbook competition offers a $1,000 prize and publication of the manuscript.

09/07/2024

Slipstream is pleased to announce that Mather Schneider of Tucson, AZ has been selected as the winner of our 2024 poetry chapbook contest for his collection of poems entitled "Much More Than Time." Mather Schneider was born in Peoria, Illinois in 1970. He lived in Washington state for a time, before moving to Tucson in 1997. Schneider has worked many jobs throughout his life and for many of those years he drove a taxi. Currently, he works as an exterminator. He has published hundreds of poems and stories and is the author of several books, including his first novel, "The Bacanora Notebooks," by Anxiety Press. He spends much of his time these days in Mexico, where the poems in this chapbook were written.
All entrants in the Slipstream poetry chapbook contest will receive a copy of the winning chapbook and a copy of the latest edition of Slipstream magazine upon publication in September.
The winner receives a $1,000 cash prize and 50 professionally-printed copies of their book. The deadline for entries is December 1 every year.

07/06/2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Slipstream is currently reading for Issue #45 from now until May 31, 2025. The issue will be published in fall 2025. We seek poetry that explores the theme "Strange Days." Creative "outside the box" interpretations are highly encouraged. Submit up to five (5) poems in one document file only. We also are seeking artwork for the issue. Please do not submit again until you have received a response on the status of your current submission.
Please refer to our Submission Guidelines to submit: