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See the "from the road" blog for notes from our writers and editors, calls for submissions and the latest news. Silk Road is now accepting online submissions for all upcoming issues. Submission guidelines. In 2010 we begin printing two issues a year! Subscribe and get a microcosm of the world in your mailbox each spring and fall. |
Call For Submissions: Your Secret Place We are crafting a special issue of Silk Road devoted to secret places. We have no set definition of what that might mean, in part because one person’s hidden space is not another’s–that’s why it’s secret. So we’re wondering: What would surprise us about a previously undisclosed or unnoticed location in your neighborhood, country, house or heart? What shouldn’t we and the rest of the world know (but you are going to tell us anyway)? Send us your submission (fiction, poetry, nonfiction, a form we can’t anticipate) for consideration by March 1, 2010. If you have images you could include with your submission, tell us in the cover letter. |
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Silk Road Review a literary crossroads |
The poetry, fiction and nonfiction in Vol. 4 takes us from Mt. Fuji to a porn shop to the galaxies housed within the human skeleton to a hut in Chad. This issue is all about artistry. Each piece shows what happens when written language is taken the distance: The finer the use of words, the more deeply we comprehend the locations that hold us, change us or refuse us. |
Silk Road is made possible by the generous support of Pacific University in Oregon |
"I rested one hand at the base of the horse's pulsing neck, looked into the dark-rimmed eyes. I entered her mouth, pushing past the back of the tongue and into the gullet to remove what had gathered dangerously there. My first horse closed her eyes, shuddered. Her throat seized on my wrist and her knees buckled. I tugged gently but firmly. I commanded the horse bone, the horse blood: Rescue this whole horse. Let this horse live." --Josie Sigler in "My Last Horse" |