Mission Statement

Sliver of Stone is a nonprofit online literary magazine. Our editors are the talented progeny of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Our mission is to provide for a web-based environment for outstanding literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art from around the globe. We want to expand the influence of these genres beyond their traditionally academic audiences. Our selection process is blind, and we take special pride in the editorial aspect, offering suggestions and critiques for the submissions that we feel need and deserve that “extra push” toward publication. While we do not take ourselves too seriously, we scorn cliché, lack of craft, or craft over substance. We invite submissions of unpublished or (exceptional) previously-published works which have not appeared online and for which the rights belong to the author. Unsolicited manuscripts are read year round. For further information, please visit the Submission Guide.