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May Day Mountain Chapbook Prize Winner: Zach Semel, “Let the tides take my body” available for purchase here. Finalists: Mark Keats, “Notes for the Afterlife” Elizabeth McCarthy, “Digging Potatoes” Marisa Tirado, “Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either” Lynn Mundell, “Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us” Kristen Ritter, “Names” Samantha Kolber, “Classified” Linda Lamenza, “Left-Handed Poetry”… Continue reading 2021 Contest Winners Are Here

Issue #25—Art Saves—is available! Buy now to ship 3/12 and get an anthology of the first 25 issues as a digital download, featuring interviews with, & stories, essays, poems, artwork, & hybrid work by Grace Paley, Michael Martone, Eloisa Amezcua, Angela Paladino, tanner menard, Will Alexander, Robin Hemley, Goldie Goldbloom, Robin Black, Paul Tran, Patricia Smith… Continue reading Print Issue #25 available! Order now & get a Hunger Mountain anthology as a digital download.

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[av_hr class=’custom’ height=’30’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-fat’ custom_width=’100%’ custom_border_color=’#a6ce39′ custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’no’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_textblock size=’17’ font_color=” color=” admin_preview_bg=”] Issue #25 is themed Art Saves. Deadline is October 15th! Submit here. Art can save a life, a relationship, a nation, a Sunday afternoon, one’s sanity—& art can save a space: for joy, for understanding,… Continue reading Announcing our Guest Editors for Issue #25

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2020 contests! The winners have all been published on our Prize Winners page. Thank you to everyone who entered, and everyone who read the many stunning entries we received. 2020 Contest Winners 2020 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize First Place Winner: Barbara Camron for “White… Continue reading 2020 Contest Winners Are Here

  Hunger Mountain & May Day Studio are proud to announce Julie Marie Wade as the winner of the inaugural May Day Mountain Chapbook Series. Julie will receive $100 in prize money plus fifty 5×7, handmade letterpress copies designed and illustrated by May Day Studio of Montpelier, Vermont. Please check back this coming fall for… Continue reading Inaugural May Day Mountain Chapbook Series Winner

2020 Deadline is March 1! Enter the contests here. The 2020 judges are: Claire Vaye Watkins – Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize Robin Black – Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize  Vievee Francis – Ruth Stone Poetry Prize Sara B. Larson – Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Claire Vaye Watkins is… Continue reading Announcing Our Guest Judges for the 2020 Hunger Mountain Writing Prizes

Issue #24 is themed Patterns. Deadline is October 15th! Submit here.   Poetry: TC Tolbert identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, mover, and poet. And, s/he’s a human in love with humans doing human things. S/he is author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014), 4 chapbooks, and co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and… Continue reading Announcing our Guest Editors for Issue #24

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2019 contests! With over 1,200 entries, we had a wonderful time reading and a hard time choosing our finalists. Thank you to everyone who entered. The winning pieces will be published in the forthcoming months, right here on Hunger Mountain Online.  Thank you to our talented assistant… Continue reading 2019 Contest Winners Are Here

Hunger Mountain 24: Patterns We’re excited to announce that the theme for our 2020 print issue, Hunger Mountain #24, is “Patterns.” Patterns can be worn or flown. Bees dance them. Humans walk them daily. Patterns can be mundane or systemic. Tibetan monks make mandalas, then blow them away. Ancient cultures left their trace in how… Continue reading Announcing Hunger Mountain’s Theme for Issue 24

You can purchase Hunger Mountain’s Issue 23: Silence & Power (Spring 2019) for $12 or as part of a 2-year subscription.   POETRY Rosebud Ben-Oni: “Efes Wrestling with the Poet Who Won’t Look Away” and “Poet Wrestling with Neutrinos She {Allegedly} Cannot Feel” Recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and… Continue reading Meet Our Contributors from “Silence & Power”

Hunger Mountain is pleased to announce its new International Young Writers Prize! This contest is open to all high school writers from around the world, and all genres of creative writing: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and writing for children. Students in Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA Program in Writing & Publishing will judge submissions and choose… Continue reading Introducing Our New International Young Writers Prize!

2019 Deadline is March 1! Click here for guidelines and to enter the contest. The 2019 judges are: Erika T. Wurth – Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize Elissa Washuta – Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize Monica Brown – Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Natalie Diaz – Ruth Stone Poetry Prize… Continue reading Announcing Our Guest Judges for the 2019 Hunger Mountain Writing Prizes

Congrats to Hunger Mountain contributors and editors who have been named notables in Best American Essays 2018, Best American Short Stories 2018, and Best American Poetry 2018: Katherine Schaefer, Notable Essay 2017 for “Edna, with Her Mouth,” published on Hunger Mountain’s website. Brenda Peynado, Distinguished Short Story 2017 for “The Man I Could Be,” published in Hunger Mountain Issue… Continue reading Congrats to our Notables!

We’re beyond excited to announce this year’s guest editors, three writers we’ve long admired. We can’t wait to view Hunger Mountain through their creative lenses. Please help us welcome:   2019 Guest Poetry Editor // Natalie Scenters-Zapico Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A., and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua,… Continue reading Announcing Hunger Mountain’s 2019 Guest Editors and Theme

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2018 contests! With nearly 1,200 entries, we had a wonderful time reading and a hard time choosing our finalists. Thank you to everyone who entered. The winning pieces will be published in the forthcoming months, right here on Hunger Mountain’s online companion. Thank you to our talented assistant… Continue reading 2018 Contest Winners Are Here

You can purchase Hunger Mountain’s Issue 22: Everyday Chimeras (Spring 2018) for $12 or as part of a 2-year subscription. POETRY Angie Macri: “Remembrance: Dream, Palace of Drought” Angie Macri is the author of Underwater Panther (Southeast Missouri State University), winner of the Cowles Poetry Book Prize, and Fear Nothing of the Future or the Past (Finishing Line). Her recent work appears in Poetry,… Continue reading Meet Our Contributors from “Everyday Chimeras”

2018 Deadline Extended to March 15th! Click here for guidelines and to enter the contest. The 2018 judges are: Caroline Leavitt – Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize Pam Houston – Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize Sherwin Bitsui – Ruth Stone Poetry Prize Kekla Magoon – Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing Caroline… Continue reading Announcing Our Guest Judges for the 2018 Hunger Mountain Literary Prizes…

We are thrilled to announce the results of our 2017 contests! With nearly 1,500 entries, we had a wonderful time reading and a hard time choosing our finalists. Thank you to everyone who entered. The winning pieces will be published this fall, right here in Hunger Mountain’s online companion. Thank you to our talented assistant editors… Continue reading 2017 Contest Winners Are Here

2017 Deadline Extended to March 8th! Click here for guidelines and to enter the contest. The 2017 judges are:  Matt Bell– Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize Joni Tevis – Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize Major Jackson – Ruth Stone Poetry Prize Cynthia Leitich Smith – Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult & Children’s Writing… Continue reading We Are Pleased to Announce the Judges for Hunger Mountain’s 2017 Literary Prizes

July 2016. Hello readers and writers. First off, we want to extend a special invitation: please submit for our upcoming print issue. Hunger Mountain 21: Masked/Unmasked will be out in February. We need your brilliant work now. We’re looking for poetry, children’s lit, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The theme, Masked/Unmasked, can be interpreted in myriad… Continue reading Announcing 2016-17 Guest Editors and Theme