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Subnivean never flees from chilling poems, penetrating stories, words that whip our perspectives around. Housed at the State University of New York at Oswego, where 4x more snow falls on our city than Manhattan, we’ve learned to persist. When winter comes, we reject migration. We use the cold itself as insulation.

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ISSUE07

SUBNIVEAN AWARDS
2022-2023
FINALISTS

POETRY

KAZIM
ALI

"Where to now? Only the previously unknowable and unspoken will bring us there." — Kazim Ali

Kazim recently graced the cover of The Writer's Chronicle. Read the feature on him.

 

2023 Final Judge in Poetry Kazim Ali is selecting a winner from among these finalists:

  • Jenny Qi, for "Last Day at the Betsy" and other poems

  • Alison Granucci, for "Random" and other poems

  • Zachary Kluckman, for "Saltshaker" and other poems

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FICTION

JOAN
SILBER

"A story depends on things not standing still, on the built-in condition of impermanence." — Joan Silber

Joan was recently interviewed by The New Yorker. Read her story or interview.

2023 Final Judge in Fiction Joan Silber is selecting a winner from among these finalists:

  • Alyssa Quinn, for "The Guide"

  • Miah Jeffra, for "Footfall"

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LISTEN

SUBNIVEAN
EPISODE 3: ECHOES

Get ready to be read to like a baby at bedtime. In Episode 3, Subnivean's staffers share sounds they've never forgotten; sounds that will reverberate in your skull too. Special thanks to the staff, and to our editing and production team: Lydia Seki, Naomi Ellis, Miles Weber, Maxwell Burton and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier.

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WATCH

LAST
by AMALIA RUSSELL

In Last, a short animation, a child has something to say to a stranger.

ABOUT THE CREATOR

Amalia Russell is an undergraduate studying game design at Champlain College.

"Matter exploding, stars being born, nothing becoming everything..."

— LAST

NEWS & EVENTS

THE SUBNIVEAN
AWARDS

What do U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera and Daniel "Lemony Snicket" Handler have in common? 

Subnivean. (And a love for ice cream.) Here they are discussing soft-serve and more—and announcing our 2022 Subnivean Awards winners in poetry in fiction, after a terrific reading by the finalists: Avtar Singh, Alicia Rebecca Myers, Zach Swiss, Artemisio Romero Y Carver, Melissa Brown, Moni Brar and Lauren Holguin.

"I don't wanna do that: I don't wanna memorize a poem in a field..."

— Daniel Handler

NEW WRITERS AWARD 
— Five finalists and winner named

SPRING 2023

Subnivean invited talented new writers to participate in a special opportunity for high school students living in our New York headquarters’ seven-county region: Oswego County, Onondaga County, Oneida County, Herkimer County, Madison County, Cayuga County and Cortland County. 

We are delighted to announce the five 2023 finalists:

 

  • Rafael Jennings (Syracuse)

  • Flora Mei (Jamesville)

  • Katie Niederhoff (Liverpool)

  • Aarohi Rastogi (Syracuse)

  • Brooklyn Saternow (Oswego)

To read about the competition and winner, click here.

THANKS TO OUR READERS FOR PUTTING US ON THE MAP
— News feature shines a bright spotlight

MONDAY
February 1, 2021

Thanks to all y'all, we've grown even since providing the numbers for this SUNY Oswego news feature

Beyond reaching thousands of readers around the globe in our first 4.5 months (on every continent but Antarctica: get with the program, penguins) we've now received submissions from writers working in Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe and 49 U.S. states as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

 

So, writers from North Dakota, our U.S. holdout, let's do this: our Issue 8 reading period is now open

 

Updated 12/16/22

2021 FIRECRACKER AWARDS 
— Subnivean announced as a finalist 

MONDAY
May 10, 2021

If you feel the ground shaking beneath you today, that's the result of much barefoot jumping up and down by Subnivean's international community.

 

Why barefoot? Because this nod from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) rocks our socks off!

Regardless of which deserving publication earns the top

Magazine: Best Debut prize at the June 23, 7pm EST awards ceremonySubnivean is honored to be among the Firecracker Awards finalists. We urge you to join us at this free, virtual event and check out the other finalist publications, as well: more good reading for your commute, lunch break or bedtime...

SNICKET, WHITE & SINCLAIR: 
Literary Legends in Conversation

"I would recommend, like, a bottle of Jim Beam ... before Googling yourself." 

 

 — Daniel Handler

What do Lemony Snicket (AKA Daniel Handler), April Sinclair (whose book, Coffee Will Make You Black, will soon be a major motion picture) and luminary poet Arisa White have in common?

Subnivean. Catch these heavyweight authors in conversation, and then prepare to get read to like a baby at bedtime by the Subnivean Awards finalists: poets Chaun Ballard, Joan Kwon Glass, Canaan Morse and Emma Wynn; fiction writers Nicole Lynn Cohen, Jared Green, Angie Kang and Kyle Rea. 

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