Gulf Stream Magazine

Issue 38: POP! is officially live!

We could not be prouder of this issue. Thank you to all of our contributors and readers. Click the link in our bio to see what pops ⭐️

Editors Note:
I just want to thank everyone for reading, contributing, and interacting with Gulf Stream since Issue 37: WET! I graduated from the MFA program at FIU on Tuesday, which means my time as Editor-in-Chief has come to an end. I've had so much fun putting these sister issues together and seeing the reaction to WET! has meant so much to me. I hope you all enjoy POP! just as much. It's been a privilege working with Gulf Stream and all of your work. I'll be passing the torch to Kamila Izquierdo, which means the magazine will remain in the best of hands. Thanks for putting up with my themed calls. Stay wet, make it pop, and Gulf Stream 4ever 🩵

Sincerely,
Michael Cuervo
(soon-to-be-former) Editor-in-Chief 😉

Congratulations to the winners of the POP! Flash Prose and Poetry Contests!

Stay tuned to read the winning entries in Issue 38 very, very soon

Love,
The Editors

Contest deadline extended:
submissions close 4/6/26 @ 11:59 PM

General submissions close on Monday

Submit at the link in bio

As always, make it pop 🩵

Come by booth 743 at AWP to get some Gulf Stream gum (& more!) and say hi to your favorite editors

See you in Baltimore 🩷

P.S. submissions are still open for Issue 38: POP! through March 30th! ;)

Our poetry and flash prose contests are now open through March 30th!

Pop on over to the link in our bio to check out the guidelines and submit

Love,

The Editors

Make it POP!

General submissions open now through March 30th

Click the link in our bio to submit & for more on Issue 38's theme

Love,

The Editors 🩵

Miss us?

Issue 38 is just about to pop

General submissions open Monday, Feb 2nd

Contest submissions open Friday, Feb 6th

Theme: come back to find out 😉

Love,

The Editors

We're so excited to announce that we are now nominating for literary awards!

Here are our outstanding nominations for 2026 Pushcart Prizes. We love and admire every single piece we publish, so it's difficult to choose which to nominate - but these six contributors made an undeniable splash. Go back and re-read "Ladies Lazari" from Issue 36, and click the link in our bio to read the nominated pieces from our current issue (f you haven't already 😉).

Congratulations to the nominees!

Much love,

The Editors

ISSUE 37: WET! IS LIVE NOW

Thank you to everyone who helped make this issue so special. We really love it and we think (know) you will too

Get WET! at the link in our bio now 🩵

All the love, Happy Holidays, & see you soon,

Michael Cuervo
Editor-in-Chief
💦

Drumroll please...

Congratulations to our winning poet and honorable mentions! Thank you to everyone who submitted. Your poems made us very, very wet in many different ways. Keep an eye out for Issue 37 so you can read these poems along with many other great poems, essays, stories, non-genre conforming (wet!) pieces!

Also, stay tuned for the next couple of months... you never know what other contest (or 2!) is waiting behind the corner just itching to pop out...

Congratulations, again, and we're so excited to share Issue 37: WET! with you all very soon 🩵

Love,

The Editors