Author: Bethany

After three years of showcasing writing focused on our beloved Keuka Lake, we are now accepting submissions for our second Finger-Lakes-wide edition—our fifth issue! Whether you dabble in poetry, share family history, spin worlds of fiction, or tell tales from your life—or some magical combination of any of these—we want to read your work. Submissions Read More

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on Bluff & Vine on your electronic devices, your wait is over! All four issues are now available as ebooks. Click the links below to get your copies now! Issue One Issue Two Issue Three Issue Four

We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of our fourth child—Issue Four of Bluff & Vine is here! More than 120 pages feature incredible poetry and prose by 25 talented writers whose work evokes the mystery and wonder of the Finger Lakes. Our cover art is courtesy of painter Mark Stash, whose piece is aptly titled Read More

Is it already a cliche to say that 2020 has been a difficult and challenging year? Nevertheless, it’s nothing but the truth, and believe us, we’ve felt every second of it. More, we know that creativity is difficult to harness under the best of circumstances, and that sometimes as the stresses and sorrows pile up, Read More

If you weren’t able to join us for our Virtually There online reading on April 11, have we got news for you! We recorded our writers and poets, and will be bringing them to you one by one over the next few weeks! First up, our co-founder and co-editor Alex Andrasik, who reads a (gently) Read More

Join some of the writers featured in our first three issues as they read their work live via Zoom! We can’t gather in coffee shops or concert halls right now, but that doesn’t mean we can’t spend an evening appreciating local artists and their craft. Use this link on Saturday, April 11th at 8pm to Read More

Welcome to 2020, and welcome to the new Bluff & Vine! We’re thrilled to announce that we are now accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the entire Finger Lakes region! Whatever your connection to the Finger Lakes, we want to read about it! Check out our Guidelines page for all the details. With this expansion, Read More

Issue Three of Bluff & Vine is now available! Click here to order a copy (or 12) on Amazon. If you’re in Penn Yan, keep an eye out for it at Longs’ and at the Penn Yan Public Library. If you’re not local, ask your local bookstore and library to carry it. And don’t forget Read More

We are closed for submissions for Issue Three. Stay tuned for some exciting announcements about the future of Bluff & Vine!

The winter flew by (except when we thought it would never end—how are the people of Westeros going to survive it?!), and you know what that means: Our submissions period is now open! We’re accepting fiction, nonfiction (including memoir), and poetry from now until September 1, 2019. Details can be found on our Submissions page. Read More