It seems that several times over the last year, I’ve looked in the front matter of a book of short stories I’ve been enjoying, and in the place where the author thanks those publications that originally printed his or her stories, I’ve seen the journal Salt Hill listed as one of them. (Although I can only think of the example of Mary Gaitskill’s Because They Wanted To at the moment.) Google “Salt Hill,” though, and you turn up a bunch of results pertaining to pubs called Salt Hill or, yes, salt hills.
It’s not just me. Fellow fiction ed. Ashleigh heroically compiled a long list of literary magazines over the summer, and her listing for Salt Hill was something like “Not sure this still exists.” We just figured it had gone the way of the dodo, so to speak.
Au contraire! Today, via Pitt’s super-useful “dist list,” comes word that Salt Hill not only exists, but is welcoming submissions for its 21st issue. It turns out too that it’s affiliated with Syracuse University.
Here is relevant info from the aforementioned e-mail, followed by an explanation of why I’m not just putting up a link:
“The editors welcome submissions of poetry, prose, translations, reviews, essays, interviews and artwork submitted by April 1. We do not accept electronic submissions.
“. . .
“To submit address your work to the appropriate editor
(poetry, fiction or nonfiction) at:
“Salt Hill
Syracuse University
English Department
Syracuse, NY 13244″
And now here is the web address they provided: SaltHillJournal.com. Click on it. Type it in yourself and see where it goes.
This is the most utterly mysterious literary magazine I have ever heard of.
-Adam
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Apparently the SaltHillJournal.com address expired just recently and will be back up within several days. So try it then if you are so inclined.
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still not up as of today. they are slippery eels, those salt hill-ers.
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it’s officially up and running. it took awhile to get domain issues straightened out, but it’s up. and we’re also in the process of a domain name change, which will come into effect sometime in the next calendar year (this is for a number of legitimate reasons; in other words, it’s not just because we don’t like the domain name). salhilljournal.com will stay active for six or so months thereafter, but it will eventually be phased out.
we hope to eventually have the journal for purchase online. we’re trying to become less slippery as the days go on. although we seem to tend toward slipperyness.
best,
john
salt hill editor -
Just to confirm what John said–we’re alive and well and slowly updating the site. We’re working on issue 21, and reading for issue 22.
http://www.salthilljournal.comis still the best way to find us (followed closely by the US Postal Service)
-Eric Darby, web editor of the brigadoon.
p.s. say hi to your non-fiction editor for me.
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Home visits are most effective when a parent liaison or someone from the community arranges them. ,
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I also like to make poems and read lots of books that is related to Poetry.;-’
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i love poetry because it is a way of expressing my own feelings..;~
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poetry is the thing i like, i create poems during my spare time`,,
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it is easy to make great poems if you are very very inspired`’:
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poetry has the power to affect our emotions by using words alone, i really love poetry ;,`
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