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Flash sale on our hard copy anthology of Issues 1-4 — it’s a gorgeous (fat!) volume! Don’t miss it!

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FLASH SALE $19.99 FULL COLOR $14.99 BLACK AND WHITE Epistemic Literary Magazine volume one, issues 1-4 Image of the cover of the hard copy volume
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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More award nominations!

Best Microfiction!
Best Microfiction 2025 Epistemic Literary logo LY FAULK — PIG FLU CHRIS COTTOM — BAND OF GOLD LORI CRAMER — SWEET GIRL JAMES B NICOLA — EVANGELICAL SUPPER BRONWEN GRIFFITHS — IF THE CONCRETE Background image: small green bookshelf with books on it in front of a large potted plant
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Announcing! Our #Puschart Prize nominees!
PUSHCART NOMINATIONS 2025 Fiction BRONWEN GRIFFITHS — IF THE CONCRETE BETHANY CUTKOMP — HAUNTER OF THE SHORE Poetry YODA OLINYK — BRIGHT YELLOW SAD JAMES LILLIEFORS — THERE WILL BE WARNINGS CNF KAREN BAUMGART — REAL LIKE A SUNG PRAYER SUMITRA SIGNAM — MY BROTHER LECTURES ME ABOUT GAUGUIN Background image: trophy
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Issue 7: Integrity - Art Contributors!

For the first time we’ve accepted multiple art pieces to accompany written pieces, in addition to a cover image. We hope you love them as much as we do!

Cover:
@jbgremillion.bsky.social

Story Accompaniment:
Adam Jon Miller
Neha M Sampat
Joanne Macias
ISSUE 7: INTEGRITY contributors ART Cover: Joe Gremillion Story Accompaniment: Adam Jon Miller Neha M Sampat Joanne Macias Background image: “do the work” spelled with letter tiles
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Issue 7: Integrity Creative Nonfiction Contributors:

Rick Kempa
Penny Nolte
Sue Ann Gleason
ISSUE 7: INTEGRITY Contributors CNF Rick Kempa Penny Nolte Sue Ann Gleason Background image: “Speak truth” spelled with letter tiles
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Issue 7: Integrity Fiction contributors!

@bronwengriffiths.bsky.social
Jaryd Porter
DC Diamondopolous
@uteorgassa.bsky.social
Barry Fields
James B Nicola
Aspen Pleasant
Susmita Mukherjee
ISSUE 7: INTEGRITY Contributors FICTION Bronwen Griffiths Jaryd Porter DC Diamondopolous Ute Orgassa Barry Fields James B Nicola Aspen Pleasant Susmita Mukherjee Background image: “I trust you” spelled with letter tiles
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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#Pushcart #SnailMail
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November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Introducing: the #poets of Issue 7: Integrity!

Lee Fraser
Melanie Hall
Amanda Trout
Rick Kempa
@vignettes.bsky.social
@francesca-laura.bsky.social
@angelvleal.bsky.social
@drsharisa.bsky.social
@onewheeloneil.bsky.social
Allison Phillips
ISSUE 7: INTEGRITY contributors Poetry Lee Fraser Melanie Hall Amanda Trout Rick Kempa Rachel Francesca L Rolle Angel Leal Sharisa Aidukaitis Sam "One-Wheel" O' Neil Allison Phillips Background image of letter tiles spelling: “own your error”
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Issue 7 is cookin’! #Integrity #ComingSoon
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November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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One Day More!!
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October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Send us some art, please!!
Black and white image of an empty frame on a wall. Text: “WE HAVE SOME GREAT SUBMISSIONS, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON? NOT ART (circled in red) HELP US FIX THAT!”
October 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Last week to submit to our #Integrity issue!
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October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Subs are open!!
image split diagonally - left/top is white background with Epistemic Literary’s logo, a QR code, and text “Oct 1-31 Integrity” Right/bottom has purple background with Nimblewitlit logo, QR code, and text “Trustworthy Oct 1-Nov 30” Word “submit” is on both sides of the diagonal split. Headline across the middle reads “Submissions are open”
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Image of Scrabble tiles in a square spelling “integrity” on a white background with black text. Text reads: “Integrity” submissions open tomorrow! Oct 1-31, 2025. Accepting Poetry, fiction, CNF, Art. Epistemic Literary logo in bottom right corner.
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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#EpistemicLitFamily
Growth by Zary Fekete 1979 The snow fell like ash that first winter in Budapest. I was seven, and the world still smelled of smoke. Not fire, but a kind of chemical fatigue, as if the walls themselves had given up something invisible. Our third-floor apartment hummed with the brittle song of the water heater until the day it coughed a black puff of melted plastic across the bathroom tiles. Mom didn't scream. She took my arm in a firm grasp and backed me out of the apartment so she could keep an eye on the flames. Then, she dragged me down three flights in our house shoes to a neighbor we barely knew, a man with crumpled pajamas, breath like garlic and mothballs.
September 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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NEWS! We are reopening for submissions in just about two weeks, on the theme INTEGRITY.

Dates: Oct 1-31
Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Cover Art

Details: epistemiclit.com/submissions/

Tandem call with our #kidlit mag @nimblewitlit.bsky.social, theme: Trustworthy. You are encouraged to submit to both!
THEME List of terms: “Passion, Respect, Integrity, Dignity, Equality, Pride” with integrity circled in red. DATES Oct 1 - Oct 31 Epistemic Literary logo appears twice. Text is in a gray box overlaying a black and white image of a gathering of motorcycles and riders.
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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More awards! Congratulations to our @genrepunkmag.bsky.social awards nominees!

@haleydirenzo.bsky.social
@jameslilliefors.bsky.social
@gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Allison Zaczynski
@brokenwingpoet.bsky.social
Arti Jain
Chelsea Allen
Mac Carey
Luis Lopez Galan
GENREPUNK AWARD NOMINATIONS EDITOR'S CHOICE HALEY DIRENZO | UPENDING THE GARDEN JAMES LILLIEFORS | THERE WILL BE WARNINGS GRETCHEN FILART | GARDENING DURING A DEPRESSIVE EPISODE DISABLED CREATIVES ALLISON ZACZYNSKI | ISOLATION TIM MURPHY | FOR THESE BRIEF MOMENTS WILDCARD ARTI JAIN | OF SONGS, THRESHOLDS, AND SLIPPERS HAUNTING CHELSEA ALLEN | SMOKE TRAILS MAC CAREY | LAST LIGHT LUIS LOPEZ GALAN | DIGNITY
September 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Ok, friends, we are DELIGHTED to announce our nominees for the inaugural Monarch Queer Literary Awards by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay

@awritingwall.bsky.social
@odinmeadows.bsky.social
@marisca.bsky.social
Jae Casella
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
Sama Bell
MONARCH QUEER LITERARY AWARDS Allison Wall - Before You Burn Me at the Stake, issue 4 Odin Meadows - Cellophane Boy, issue 4 Marisca Pichette - Asking, issue 4 Jae Casella - Monday Night Choir Boi, issue 4 Ly Faulk - Pig Flu, issue 5 Sama Bell - Better Chance, issue 5
September 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Did you see the cover image for today’s issue?

“At the Road’s End” by Anna Wiksten

See the entire issue here: epistemiclit.com/current-issue/

#nostalgia
A blurred photo of a child standing in front of a cottage, a mobile home and a tent, surrounded by green grass and with the forest in the background. The photo's burned-in date stamp is 90 8 2.
September 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Amy Devine
Lily Vaughan
Peggy Heitmann
Amanda Trout - www.instagram.com/atrout2972/
Karen Baumgart - @cake-girl.bsky.social
Gretchen Filart - @gretchenfilart.bsky.social
Issue 6: Nostalgia Poetry Contributors: Yoda Olinyk Anastasia Bortsvadze Rabab Ahmed Rachel Woodgate Megan Munger Amy Devine Lily Vaughan Peggy Heitmann Amanda Trout Karen Baumgart Gretchen Filart
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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And, finally, our #Poets of Issue 6!

Yoda Olinyk - www.instagram.com/doulaofwords/
Anastasia Bortsvadze - www.instagram.com/anastayinath...
Rabab Ahmed - www.instagram.com/havealittlem...
Rachel Woodgate - @vignettes.bsky.social
Megan Munger - www.instagram.com/megmungerpoet/

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Issue 6: Nostalgia Poetry Contributors: Yoda Olinyk Anastasia Bortsvadze Rabab Ahmed Rachel Woodgate Megan Munger Amy Devine Lily Vaughan Peggy Heitmann Amanda Trout Karen Baumgart Gretchen Filart
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Sunny Carlstrom
Jennifer Spurgeon - @einetogi.bsky.social
Lori Cramer - @loricramerwriter.bsky.social
Haley DiRenzo - @haleydirenzo.bsky.social
Lisa Thornton - @thorntonforreal.bsky.social
Issue 6: Nostalgia Fiction Contributors: Ute orgassa Chris Cottom Gary Finnegan Barbara Reese Yager Bethany Cutkomp Sunny Caristrom Jennifer Spurgeon Lori Cramer Haley DiRenzo Lisa Thornton
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Next up, #Fiction contributors! A nice mix of new and former:

Ute Orgassa - @uteorgassa.bsky.social
Chris Cottom - @chriscottom.bsky.social
Gary Finnegan - www.instagram.com/finnegan6893/
Barbara Reese Yager - www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraya...
Bethany Cutkomp - @bdcutkomp.bsky.social

Contd —
Issue 6: Nostalgia Fiction Contributors: Ute orgassa Chris Cottom Gary Finnegan Barbara Reese Yager Bethany Cutkomp Sunny Caristrom Jennifer Spurgeon Lori Cramer Haley DiRenzo Lisa Thornton
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Introducing our Issue 6 #CreativeNonFiction contributors:

Diane Cypkin
Ryan T. Pozzi - @ryantpozzi.bsky.social
Karen Baumgart - @cake-girl.bsky.social

We can’t wait for you to read these amazing pieces!
Issue 6: Nostalgia CNF Contributors: Diane Cypkin Ryan T. Pozzi Karen Baumgart
September 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Introducing our Issue 6 Cover Artist, Anna Wiksten!

Find more about Anna and her art at www.instagram.com/studioannawi...
Issue 6: Nostalgia Cover Artist: Anna Wiksten
September 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM