SBLAAM At Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, our primary interest is quality. We welcome submissions in any and all forms, genres, styles, and approaches in written word and image. We encourage innovation as well as tradition.
We want any artist or writer to view SBLAAM as a potential home. We have since our inception encouraged submissions from seniors, but we judge all works we receive without any bias toward age, status, location, or any other identification.
Our main criteria is that the work be good: it should engage the reader/viewer. Art should not merely strike a familiar chord; it should enrich our experience. It must (in the words of Ezra Pound) “make it new.”
staff
fiction
Stan Werlin editor
Peter Alterman reader
Glenn Davids reader
Liz Gregg reader
Gail Hipkins reader
Joy McFarland reader
non-fiction
Peter Alterman editor
Lauren Carter reader
Emily Haynes reader
Jennifer Ne Toi reader
Steve Wechselblatt reader
Nick Wineriter reader
poetry
John Himmelheber editor
Pete Solet reader
Bruce Spang reader
proofreaders
Lauren Carter, Virginia & John Himmelheber
technical assistant
Jim Neuner
business assistant
Peter Alterman
editor-in-chief
John Himmelheber