The Sam Hill! Review publishes historical fiction & poetry that makes you say: “now that was good as SAM HILL!”
Somebody made off with historical fiction & left the indie lit mags holding an empty bag. WHAT IN THE SAM HILL?! We want it back. We want wild, funny, gorgeous, difficult, irreverent work that smashes the museum display case.
Send us the past with the dust still on it. Send us the faces the microfilm reader washed out & mangled. Send us the voices nobody bothered to transcribe. History was never told in one voice, & neither is this journal: we especially want work that features characters who’ve been historically in the margins — BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, older, disabled, & neurodivergent writers, & anyone whose angle on the past we haven’t heard yet.
Steve Kemple is a teacher, writer, & former librarian. His fiction has appeared in Weird Lit Magazine & in Uncharted Magazine, where his story about a cow placed third in the “What the Wild Carries” prize for short fiction. He is working on his first novel, about a family of con artists, set in 1850s Ohio. He received an MLIS from Kent State University & a BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Rumors that he lives in New Jersey have been greatly exaggerated. Find him at stevekemple.com.
Dr. Kathleen Kidder is a professor of classics at Seton Hall University & author of Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry (Harvard Press, 2023). She received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin & a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She has published articles on the Sirens, Helen of Troy, Demeter, & Proteus. Currently she is exploring depictions of geographic & architectural space in Lycophron’s Alexandra.