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 Glenn Davids Susan Greenberg Gail Hipkins non-fiction Peter Alterman (editor) Emily Cain Steve Wechselblatt poetry John Himmelheber (editor) Pete Solet Bruce Spang art & photography Terry Johnson (editor) technical assistance Jim Neuner editor-in-chief John Himmelheber