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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 1d

We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 5d

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

Announcing our Best of the Net nominations!

Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”

Erica Dawson — “On Craft”

griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”

Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”

Variant Lit Best of the Net nominations: Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”
Erica Dawson — “On Craft”
griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”
Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”
Mara Lee Grayson — “How to be the Mother of a Missing Daughter”
E. Peregrine — “High Noon”
Ron Riekki — “The Opposite of Dusk”
Emily Rinkema — “The Interview”

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · 3d

So excited to be taking on this role at Variant!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 3d

Meet David Elliot Eisenstat, our Managing Poetry Editor!
A Brooklyn-based poet, David’s work has appeared in THINK, The Pierian, and Rust & Moth, among others. You can read more of his poems at davideisenstat.com/poetry.

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FLARE Magazine (SUBS CLOSED) @flaremagazine.bsky.social · 14d

Author Spotlight #25: David Elliot Eisenstat (eisenstat.bsky.social) and his creative nonfiction piece, "The Bread of Affliction."
Read his piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/the-bread-of...
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#litmags #authorspotlight #creativenonfiction #disabilities

brown blobs background: Author Spotlight: "The Bread of Affliction" by David Elliot Eisenstat, CNF

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 5d

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · Jun 7

KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...

KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS) -- “I’ve seen people able to do perfect bottom deals at casino poker tables for 100 thousand dollar stakes, under heat. I’ve seen people able to do bottom deals at illegal mob games where everyone was carrying. This poetry is only a bit safer but way, way harder. And impresses me more. I love it.”
— Penn Jillette

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 20d

Solidarity to every poet who finally figured out what that poem needed, and is now tempted to yank the previous version from submission queues.

(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · Aug 31

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.

No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.

#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

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FLARE Magazine (SUBS CLOSED) @flaremagazine.bsky.social · Aug 28

Our issue 4 is out--official post coming soon with accounts tagged. We use a scheduling platform, Buffer, and it ran into a posting issue for some reason.

In the meantime, see the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/

Issue 4

Editor’s Note: Dear Reader, Thank you for stopping by! This is the last main issue of 2025, so it’s a little bittersweet because FLARE has grown so much in such little time. When starti…

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · Jan 25

POEM SEALED IN A BOTTLE

A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · Aug 27

Always a pleasure to read a sonnet that does something a little different than the ones that came before.

Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · Aug 27

LOVE SONNET OF THE CAUTIOUS ROMANTIC

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · Aug 21

Nobody does these flavors quite like Defenestration! The August issue is hilarious, and I’m so glad that one of my poems calls it home.

Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social · Aug 20

If the August 2025 issue of Defenestration were a candy bar, it would be chocolate filled with assorted nuts, ghosts, and the yellowing pages books. It would also have been banned in three dozen localities for causing seizures in the humorless. Devour it here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc #DefenestrationMagazine

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · Aug 8

Do you want to edit for JAKE? The poetry team is looking for some more hands!

Duosuma @duosuma.com · Aug 6

JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐ is open to submissions for Join the Team. #CallforSubmissions

Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐

JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐ is open to submissions for Join the Team. #CallforSubmissions

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Jun 18

Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.

"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...

My Teenage Daughter

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · Mar 24

Next 🍋 Writing Sprint: Saturday, April 12th
11 AM CT / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
Free • On Zoom • Open to all genres

Join us for two quiet, focused hours of writing.
Bring your project or start something new. Prompts provided (but totally optional).

RSVP: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Mar 21

"There’s a sun out there somewhere but I can’t see it. For some reason, I want to find it, but it’s buried alive."

Read "The Opposite of Dusk"
by Ron Riekki ☀️

variantlit.com/the-opposite...

The Opposite of Dusk

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Mar 18

"On Craft" by Erica Dawson @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social

"The first job of the poet is to say / what we are, the second what we are becoming.
I turn the pages over on the desk.
The radiator hisses hard. Sunset."

Read the whole poem from issue 20 on our site!

variantlit.com/on-craft/

On Craft

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Mar 9

If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.

variantlit.com/submit/

Submit

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · Feb 27

“I remember the first night of Passover for once, but the store is out of matzo, and—oh no—the smallest bag of flour barely fits in my granny cart.”

The fourteenth issue of Minyan Magazine (@minyanmag.bsky.social) is out today, with a prose poem by yours truly:

minyanmag.com/davideisenst...

The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat | MINYAN

The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat from Issue Fourteen

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · Jan 17

My poem “A Brooklyn Atheist at Summer’s End” just appeared in the new issue of Midway Journal! midwayjournal.com/a-brooklyn-a...

Screenshot of “A Brooklyn Atheist.” The lineation is important and I don’t trust Bluesky not to mangle it, so please follow the link.

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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · Jan 15

We've extended the deadline for the Regular Reading Period! Keep sending us your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Monday, January 20th, at noon EST for the chance to be featured in a future issue of Ploughshares. pshares.org/submit/

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JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · Jan 16

Poets! Essayists! We want your work!

JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social · Jan 16

Nearing the end of the first 24 hours of the new sub manager, and 11 of the 15 submitted pieces are in Fiction. The rest are poems. So if you're a poet or CNF writer, the odds are generally never better than this to get a quick response/acceptance!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine Submission Manager

Submit to JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine. Powered by Duosuma: Duotrope's Submission Manager.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · Dec 4

Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:

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T E Rossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · Nov 24

And we’re open @variantlit.bsky.social for poetry and prose (3-micro series, flash up to 1500 words and fiction up to 20 pages)! Please submit only once through 12/31 unless invited otherwise. Can’t wait to read your lovelies!

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