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.
Steve Evans. Oteeyho Iro. Charles Haddox. Zama Madinana. Taylor Graham. Natalie Harris-Spencer. Jason Lobell. Maggie Yang. Aaron Weinzapfel. Meredith Wadley. Asma Al-Masyabi. Linda Neal. Shilo Niziolek. David A. Porter.
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:
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Jenny Qi, for "Last Day at the Betsy" and other poems
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Alison Granucci, for "Random" and other poems
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Zachary Kluckman, for "Saltshaker" and other poems
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:
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Alyssa Quinn, for "The Guide"
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Miah Jeffra, for "Footfall"
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.
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 ceremony, Subnivean 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.