Whistling Shade is a literary journal and small press located in St. Paul, MN.
We take a populist approach to literature and our audience is the general reading public.
Whistling Shade is now published annually and we have been in print since 2001.
See our Subscriptions page to purchase a subscription or individual issues.
Whistling Shade Press also publishes books.
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Latest News:
The Whistling Shade 2025 issue is now available, and a $1 PDF download or $4 issue can be purchased below. The issue release will be Saturday, May 10, 7pm, at Eat My Words bookstore. Readings by Jana Knittel, Mark Rhoads, Carol Rucks, and our own poetry editor Julian Bernick!
We also have a new book out by Whistling Shade Press - Hypnotic Control by John-Ivan Palmer, a career stage hypnotist. Part history, part personal memoir, part social commentary, Hypnotic Control is a fascinating dive into the art and science of stage hypnotism, as well as hypnotic influences at work in society at large. Look for book release details soon!
Meanwhile, submissions are now open for Whistling Shade's 2026 issue! The theme next year will be "The Road". All work is welcome, but we are particularly looking for stories, poetry and memoirs involving rovers, vagrants, fugitives, and travelers of any stripe.
Purchase a PDF replica of the print issue for $1.
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New books from Whistling Shade!
Hypnotic Control - John-Ivan Palmer
Career stage hypnotist John-Ivan Palmer takes us on this strange, behind-the-curtains look at hypnotism - how it works on the stage and also how hypnotic forces shape society at large. Topics include: mesmeric performance, cults, terrorism, school shootings, TV, the internet, Trumpism, and other true cases of bizarre influence.
The Sound of Light - Greg Watson
From a record store to a marathon to a newborn intensive care unit, Greg Watson's poems catalogue the intimate moments that fall just below the surface of a busy, modern world. By turns tender and elegiac, his sparse lines are filled with a quiet reverie that attempts to describe "the sound of light itself / asking to be recorded, / and no one around to do so / but me, a novice playing / the only way I know" ("And Learn to Sing Along").
The Neighborhood Division - Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande's latest story collection travels down the shady lanes of the American neighborhood.
From kids egging windows to lost joggers and insomniacs to basement prisoners and Orwellian gated communities,
these stories grow ever more surreal, holding a darkened mirror up to that which we are - and may become.
Castle Bash - Julian Bernick
A narrative poem in the Romantic tradition, Castle Bash is Byronic in character, Gothic in atmosphere, Romantic in outlook and
Lovecraftian in scope. When a bastard poet is given safe haven and patronage at the tenebrous Castle Bash, mystery, passion, and the
forces of hell converge upon its benighted inhabitants. This is the second title in Whistling Shade's Geste Series.
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