Elm Leaves Journal (ELJ) is SUNY Buffalo State’s historic literary and arts journal. In production since 1948, Elm Leaves Journal has been administered, edited and produced by students at Buffalo State University.
In 2013, after a brief hiatus, Elm Leaves Journal was re-imagined as ELJ, a cutting edge, national literary journal. The 2013 edition was the first that published writers outside of the Buffalo State community, that that was printed by a professional publisher. ELJ is published through the cooperation of the Writing Major and the School of Arts and Sciences.
The “Wild” Edition (Winter 2013) features work by writers Matthew Bookin, Eric Bosse, Gregory Lawless, Paul Lisicky, Robert Lopez, Mary Miller, Ted Pelton, Gary Percesepe, Jennifer Pieroni, Matthew Roberson, Gail Louise Siegel, Curtis Smith, Ed Taylor, Girija Tropp, and Amy Day Wilkinson.
The “Harvest” edition (Fall 2014) features work by Trevor Dodge, Kathy Fish, Zach Fishel, Sherrie Flick, Lydia Copeland Gwyn, Paul Myette, Thomas O’Connell, Peter Ramos, Gail Louise Siegel, Kaysi Stepien, Ed Taylor, Diane Vickers, and Joan Wilking.
The “Dirt” edition (Winter 2016) features work by Myfanwy Collins, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, Kathy Fish, Avital Gad-Cykman, Lydia Copeland Gwyn, Susan Henderson, Brandon Hobson, Laurie Kaiser, Robert Lopez, Michael Martone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Kathleen McGookey, Dave Newman, Pamela Painter, William R. Slogan, Ed Taylor, Peter Tiernan, Girija Tropp, Joan Willing, Lex Williford, and Steven Wingate.
The “Blues” edition (Fall 2017) features work by Glen Armstrong, Jill Dery, Michael Don, Jeff Ewing, Lucas Flatt, Michael Fontana, Abigail George, Sean Gill, Lynn Levin, Tamara Miles, Jefferson Navicky, Joseph Nicoletti, Cat Olson, Lynn Pattison, Ralph Pennel, Peter Ramos, Michael Sarnowski, T. L. Sherwood, Gail Louise Siegel, William R. Soldan, Susan Pepper, Girija Tropp, Joan Wilking, and Larry J. Wormington.
The “Blackout” edition (Spring 2019) features work by Karen Poppy, Ed Taylor, John Sibley Williams, David Lander, Nathanial William Stolte, Annie Diamond, Marilee Goad, Cymelle Edwards, Zoe Carson, David Lampe, Stephanie Kaplan Cohen, Terry Brie, Justin Hermann, Michael Don, Janet Clare, Peter Barlow, Julia LoFaso, Lydia Copeland Gwyn, Michael Slovak, Kevin Matz, Corey Hill, Jeff Ewing, Harris Lahti, S.F. Wright, K.C. Snow, Burton Shulman, Jim Hilgartner, Claire Polders, Chris Stuccho, and Joan Wilking.
The “150 Anniversary” edition (Fall 2021) celebrates Buffalo State’s 150 years and features authors from past editions: Lydia Copeland-Gwyn, Robert Litwiller, Elaine Zaborowski, Judy Koranic, ryki zuckerman, Mary Gillette, Peter Ramos, Susan Henderson, Milton Stubbs, Pia Ehrhardt, Girija Tropp, Gordon Smith, Pamela Painter, Gail Louise Siegel, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed Taylor, Joan Wilking, Corey Hill, S.F. Wright, and Larry J Wormington.
The “Eclipse” edition (Spring 2024) celebrates the 2024 total solar eclipse, and features work by Eric Bosse, Dustin Brookshire, Tetman Callis, Angelina Cruzal, Marlanda Dekine, Denise Duhamel, Grant Faulkner, Lisa Ferranti, Gary Fink, Kathy Fish, Sherrie Flick, Avital Gad-Cykman, January Gill O’Neil, Lydia Gwyn, Tina Marie Hall, Morgan Harlow, Peter Johnson, Jen Knox, Sonia Leung, John Madera, Nancy McCabe, Kathleen McGookey, Cooper (Esteban) Renner, Robert Scottellaro, T.L. Sherwood, Nancy Stohlman, Terese Svoboda, Marc Tweed, Marc Vincenz, Matthew Vollmer, Joan Wilking, and Francine Witte.
The journal is edited by Pushcart Prize-winning author Kim Chinquee, Associate Professor of English, and co-director of the Writing Major. ELJ is produced, in part, through the work of students in ENG 327, Literary Publishing. In this course, Professor Chinquee takes students through the process of producing the journal, from selection to editing to layout.
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