Stone Canoe is a literary magazine published annually by The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, New York ( "The DWC").
The magazine was established in 2007 by Robert Colley, and is currently edited by poet and DWC founder Philip Memmer.
Where funding allows, Stone Canoe has a series of annual awards for the best submissions by emerging writers and artists, selected by the editors.
Stone Canoe derives its name from a traditional Native American story from Upstate New York that dates back some 2000 years.
As the legend goes, the Peacemaker came to the area by crossing Lake Ontario on a white stone canoe.