| Executive Editor | Phil Memmer |
|---|---|
| Categories | Literary magazine |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Publisher | The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Syracuse, New York |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1934-9963 |
| OCLC | 76837112 |
Stone Canoe is a literary magazine published annually by The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, New York ( "The DWC"). It publishes the work of writers and artists who are current or former residents of Upstate New York, which the journal's editors define as that portion of the state outside of New York City and Long Island. The magazine was established in 2007 by Robert Colley, and is currently edited by poet and DWC founder Philip Memmer. Each of the journal's major categories are edited by a panel of guest editors, which rotate annually.
Where funding allows, Stone Canoe has a series of annual awards for the best submissions by emerging writers and artists, selected by the editors. These awards include publication and an honorarium of $500.
Stone Canoe derives its name from a traditional Native American story from Upstate New York that dates back some 2000 years. The story itself concerns the arrival of the Great Peacemaker to the region. According to Iroquois tradition, the Great Peacemaker was the founder of the Haudenosaunee, commonly called the Iroquois Confederacy. As the legend goes, the Peacemaker came to the area by crossing Lake Ontario on a white stone canoe. [3]