Sam Backlund-Clapp can frequently be found scribbling in the dark or wrestling with typewriter ribbon. The lead on her chain is planted in rural middle America, where she learned the love language of desolate wastelands and dried corn husks. ‘Film it next time’ was nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology, and ‘Time spent in REM’ was a prizewinner in the Common House Magazine 2026 summer contest. Top 20 publications down below.
Selected work
Quantum theory says this is the future
The Missing Slate, 2026
Preamble
Virgo Venus Press, 2026
The Unmaking of All Things
New World Writing Quarterly, 2026
Creature Comfort//Razor’s Edge
Slim Radio, 2026
Meditations on Arthurian Notions of Courtly Love
Slim Radio, 2026
Lamb on a Leash
Main Squeeze Magazine, 2026
The Liturgy of Anticipation
Slim Radio, 2026
Premonitions
The Hemlock Journal, 2025
12 stitches, 3 Our Father's
wildscape. literary journal, 2026
Spherical Pilgrimage
Slim Radio, 2025
Patron Saint of Losing
Slim Radio, 2025
From where does my help come?
Soon
The Page Gallery Journal
Half until proven whole
Apricus Literary, 2025
Human eclipse
The Rotten Pomegranate, 2025
Occam's Razor
Bending Genres, 2025
The crosswalk in the middle of REM
Notch, 2025
Inciting Incidents
The Ignatian Literary Magazine, 2025
Film it next time
wildscape. literary journal, 2025
Craving negative space
The Mixtape Review, 2025
The Hanged Man
Eloquentia Magazine, 2025