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PLEASE NOTE: We will not be reading prose submissions until September 1, 2009. All prose submissions received before that date will be recycled.

Subtropics 8, a special all-poetry issue, is now available. Featuring new work by Christopher Bakken, Erinn Batykefer, Billy Collins, T. Zachary Cotler, W. S. Di Piero, Barbara Hamby, Colette Inez, Carrie Jerrell, David Kirby, Richard Lyons, Pablo Medina, Sandra Meek, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robert Schulz, Heather Sellers, and others.

We are very pleased to announce that Marshall N. Klimasewiski (Subtropics 5) has received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation for 2009-2010.

Kuzhali Manickavel’s debut story collection, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, has been released by Blaft Publications. Her story “The Dynamics of Windows” appeared in Subtropics 4.

Verse Daily has featured three poems from Subtropics 7: Randall Mann, “Monday” (April 5); Idra Novey, “A History in Six Couplets” (April 3); and Roberto Juarroz, “Scales of a Little Wisdom,” translated by Mary Crow (April 1). Suzanne Zweizig’s poem, “Bicycling from Todtnauberg,” from Subtropics 6, appeared on Dec. 29.

Subtropics is featured on Tina Brown’s site The Daily Beast, as one of “Tomorrow’s Literary Superstars Today.”

Subtropics 7 is now available. Featuring fiction by Peter Cameron, Molly Giles, James Magruder, Padgett Powell, Jarret Rosenblatt, and Eva Talmadge, and poems by Seth Abramson, Deborah Ager, John Ash, Jim Daniels, Chad Davidson, Jordan Davis, Adam Day, Jehanne Dubrow, Denise Duhamel and Sandy McIntosh, Gregory Fraser, Alice Friman, Kim Garcia, Albert Goldbarth, Timothy Green, Ada Limon, Randall Mann, George Manner, Mark McKee, Les Murray, Idra Novey, Benjamin Pryor, TWIXT, and Andrea L. Watson. In translation: a story by Olga Slavnikova, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz; poetry by Roberto Juarroz, translated from the Spanish by Mary Crow; poetry by Salgado Marãnhao, translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin.

We are pleased to announce that David Ramsey’s short-short story, “Powers,” from Subtropics 4, was a finalist for the First Annual Micro Award.

In Memoriam: Subtropics 6 contributor Reginald Shepherd (1963–2008).

We are pleased to announce that Steve Almond’s “Nixon Swims” (Subtropics 3) and Laura Furman’s “Here It Was, November” (Subtropics 4) have been included in the list of 100 Distinguished Stories of 2007 listed in The Best American Stories 2008.

Congratulations to Owen King, whose story “Nothing is in Bad Taste” (Subtropics 5) has been selected as a recommended story in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2009.

We are very pleased to announce that Douglas Basford’s translation of Silvio D’Arzo’s “Cosi vinti dal dolore (So overcome with pain),” in Subtropics 6, is co-winner of the New England Poetry Club’s 2008 Der-Hovanessian Translation Award, chosen by Marge Piercy.

Click here to read an interview with John Brandon (Subtropics 5 & 6). Other author interviews can be found on the Interviews page.

Subtropics 6 is now out—a double issue with two covers! Featuring stories by Jacob M. Appel, John Brandon, Nadia Kalman, and Celeste Ng; an essay by Timothy Cook; a novella by Peter Wells; and 41 poets, including Peter Cooley, Averill Curdy, Richard Kenney, John Kinsella, Kathleen Rooney, Reginald Shepherd, A. E. Stallings, G. C. Waldrep, and Suzanne Zweizig. In translation: poems by Tomaz Salamun and Hai Zi, and a story by Ricardo Silva Romero.

In Memoriam: Subtropics 6 contributors Eric Van Cleve (1982–2008) and Joanne Childers (1926–2008).

We are very pleased to announce that Tony D’Souza (Subtropics 2), Bob Hicok (Subtropics 1 and 5), and Reginald Shepherd (Subtropics 6) have received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation for 2008–2009.

Subtropics 5, with Cristina Ferreira-Pinto Bailey’s translation of Marina Colasanti’s “Jantar familiar/Family Dinner,” was featured in Poetry Daily on Thursday, March 6.

We are very pleased to announce that D. A. Powell’s poem “cosmos, late blooming” from Subtropics 3 has been selected by Charles Wright to appear in The Best American Poetry 2008.

Barbara Hamby’s “Ode on Dictionaries,” from Subtropics 4, was the Poetry Daily featured poem for December 13, 2007.

We are very pleased to announce that Laura Furman has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant based on her story “Here It Was, November” in Subtropics 3.