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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 10h

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

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 11h

Her work has appeared in Roanoke Review, Passages North, X-R-A-Y, and others. Originally from Arizona, she now lives in Seattle.

She loves prose with layered meaning that deepens as the story builds, and looks for writing with images or details that linger after reading.

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 11h

Meet Suzy Eynon, Managing Editor of Long Form Fiction! @suzyeynon.bsky.social

She's the author of the novella Terrestrial (Malarkey Books, 2026) and the prose chapbooks Being Seen (Ethel) and Commuting (Ghost City Press Summer Series).

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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social · 1d

So excited and honored to be nominated by @variantlit.bsky.social! 🩷🩷🩷

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 1d

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@maraleegrayson.bsky.social — “How to be the Mother of a Missing Daughter”

E. Peregrine — “High Noon”

@rriekki.bsky.social — “The Opposite of Dusk”

@emilyrinkema.bsky.social — “The Interview”

Read their pieces at variantlit.com/announcing-o...

Announcing Our 2026 Best of the Net Nominees

We’re thrilled to announce Variant Lit’s 2026 Best of the Net nominees!

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 1d

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@maraleegrayson.bsky.social — “How to be the Mother of a Missing Daughter”

E. Peregrine — “High Noon”

@rriekki.bsky.social — “The Opposite of Dusk”

@emilyrinkema.bsky.social — “The Interview”

Read their pieces at variantlit.com/announcing-o...

Announcing Our 2026 Best of the Net Nominees

We’re thrilled to announce Variant Lit’s 2026 Best of the Net nominees!

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 1d

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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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.”
D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation.

Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn

Residuum and Reclamation: On Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon

Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled p…

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 3d

huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬

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air

after midnight now & i am instituting the freight train over lombard street shut the fuck up challenge & it's
not an attack on trains but actually in defense of a silent night, soundtracked only by tires across slick
pavement & an errant thrush. it's been months since i heard a whistle sound through the stark chill
of midnight air & i swear this tree had leaves the last time i looked but here we are now, in the
waxing-days of january staring at pockets of orangegrey between shadows of branches. i will always
bemoan july's humid advances but never stop to consider the right now of it all—the way chills lurch
up unsuspecting spine, regardless of the weight of my jacket. the black-iced patches of uneven brick
sidewalk. the way a sound, any sound, cuts the sky in the first hours of a new year, ecstatic at all the
streets it may roam unencumbered.

i keep a stock of blades
to cut the sky beneath
my tongue / shaped like
every sound that was
rejected by my kin

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 2d

Hi! For anyone here who has wanted to join a Lemon Grove Writer's zoom writing sprint - our LAST sprint of 2025 is October 18th AND we're having an open mic. Now is the time to sign up! lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

Write with Us!

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

What’s he looking for in a submission?
“I love a poem that swings open like a pop-up card.”

Get your packets ready, submissions open later this month!

Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

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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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 2d

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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BOA Editions @boa-editions.bsky.social · 4d

If you're looking for a fantastical read that turns the modern world on its head, look no further than THE MUSEUM OF FUTURE MISTAKES by James R. Gapinski. 📖

Purchase this singular collection today at boaeditions.org!

#NewBook #JamesRGapinski #TheMuseumofFutureMistakes #ShortFiction

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 4d

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

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T E Rossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Can’t wait to read this! Out 11/30 from Cash4Gold books. Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/alli...

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 4d

Our Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!

Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

#poetry #fiction #translations #finearts #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2025 issue is OUT NOW!
Featuring an #interview with Keetje Kuipers and works by Sean Thomas Dougherty, Suzy Eynon, Jason Bentsman, Chelsea Dingman, and many more.

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Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social · 5d

First, I kicked off 2025 with the publication of IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from the cool kids at @variantlit.bsky.social

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It Was Never Supposed To Be

It Was Never Supposed to Be contains multitudes: of desires, of risks, of fears, of fluids, of loves, of assignations, of histories. “I’m in a doom generation,” Ben Kline writes early in the collec…

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D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social · 5d

couldn't be happier to see this poem land in @bruisermag.com, a venue i admire for their commitment to a unique vision

BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 5d

More like a flower than a gun

WITH EACH BITE MORE MAD by @lowermelody.bsky.social

www.bruisermag.com/baker_bite

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 6d

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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James R. Gapinski @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social · 6d

Launch day! I hope you love these weird little stories as much as I do. Learn more about the book here: jamesrgapinski.com/the-museum-o...

Come celebrate with me on the book tour this month and next: jamesrgapinski.com/events

#books #writing #reading #author #smallpress #fiction #shortstories

Graphic advertising weird stories in “The Museum of Future Mistakes,” by James R. Gapinski.

Graphic describing the themes in “The Museum of Future Mistakes,” including the body, love and loss, and the fragility of personal identity.

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Ellen Austin-Li @ellenaustinli.bsky.social · 15d

Our first show at a new venue with a new name! Poetry Night at Sitwell’s is now “Poetry at Artifact” at Urban Artifact in Northside (Cincy, OH). We’ll feature poets @benkline.bsky.social & Michael C. Peterson, & we’ll have our usual open mic. Come on in!

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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 13d

"I spent hours in my bedroom practicing my banter, explaining the nuance of each of my lines, and making sure to perfect the sullen, distant look in my eyes."

New issue of my favorite writer's advice series is out!
tinyurl.com/bdutdrxf

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Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com · 12d

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!

Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 13d

New from The Variety Pack! In conversation with Variant Editor @williamjcagle.bsky.social,
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social discusses the strange possibilities of fiction from their forthcoming collection The Museum of Future Mistakes from @boa-editions.bsky.social

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The Museum of Future Mistakes: An Interview with James R. Gapinski

James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Pri…

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