We're DELIGHTED with our fall issue, and we think you will be, too! Click to read work by Q.Y. Tie, Moriah Cohen, Michael Keenan Gutierrez, @LeahJCallen, Mary Pigliacelli, @CNaprava, @AgataBrewer, and Fran Schumer ! contrarymagazine.com #fiction #poetry #CNF #literature

Authors! Can't wait for everyone to read your work! Please RT 💗 Click to read work by Q.Y. Tie, Moriah Cohen, Michael Keenan Gutierrez, @LeahJCallen, Mary Pigliacelli, @CNaprava, @AgataBrewer, and Fran Schumer! contrarymagazine.com

Our '21 Pushcart nominees! “When We Were Girls” @jcbaggott “Swan Garden” Lucy Zhang “Any Other Night” Carly Parker-Plank “Dear Parents, Know This” @SarahTwombly “Outis Odysseus” tu marido “Why Annie Oakley and Dolly Parton...” Sara Moore Wagner contrarymagazine.com

Did you make a New Year's Resolution to read more? Our winter issue is PERFECTION! Read works by: Kan Ren Jie, @mbarrettwriter, @adamhughespoet1, Chelsea Stickle (she/her) , Roseanne Freed, Liam Hogan, and @richardjnewman. contrarymagazine.com #fiction #poetry

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary If you could do us a favor and tweet out our winter issue, that would be awesome! Give it a read, and tweet out your favorite piece, too! contrarymagazine.com

#TPQ20: S2EP12 - SHAINDEL BEERS Join Chris of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in a one-on-one sit down with Shaindel Beers, Poetry Editor of Contrary, about passions, process, pitfalls, and poetry!  Shaindel Beers 🍻 Contrary The Rumpus PAWSPendletonOR LISTEN IN: anchor.fm/tpq20/episodes…

Happy Spring! We have amazing work by Edward Mc Whinney, Shirley Hilton, Evan Gurney, McKenna Shea, Martin Willitts Jr., Mandira Pattnaik , Jonathan Calloway, @Curtis_J_Smith, and Ele Pawelski 🇨🇦! ❤ #literature #books #amreading #fiction #poetry #writerslift contrarymagazine.com

Our summer issue is GORGEOUS! GORGEOUS! Please read amazing work by Nadia McGlinn, Edward Mc Whinney, Despy Boutris , Rae Hoffman Jager , Renee Emerson , and Sean Cho A. contrarymagazine.com/archives/summe… #SummerReading #SundayReads #WritingCommunity

Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominees, McKenna Shea, Shirley Hilton, Jonathan Calloway, Curtis Smith, @LeahJCallen, @CNaprava, @adamhughespoet1 , Kan Ren Jie, @richardjnewman , and Roseanne Freed! Please go to ContraryMagazine.com to read these works! #writerslift

Fall is in the air for many of us, so let's launch our fall issue as part of #SundayReading ! Check out beautiful work by Nick Sweeney, karis, @HannahB40843697, Chestnut Club, Chinedu Gospel, Catherine Chiarella Domonkos & Bethany F. Brengan. contrarymagazine.com

Congrats to our Pushcart nominees! "On Gratitude" Despy Boutris "Stillbirth" Rae Hoffman Jager "Dark Matter" Mandira Pattnaik "We Were Girls Once, Dancing" Curtis Smith "A Song of Silence" McKenna Shea "A Weekend in Aubervilliers" Nick Sweeney contrarymagazine.com

Contrary's 2022 Pushcart Prize nominations: zirk.us/@contrary/1094… Despy Boutris Rae Hoffman Jager Mandira Pattnaik Nick Sweeney

I’m pleased to share that my essay about my dad and driving and music has been published in Contrary contrarymagazine.com/2023/miles-and…

It’s a very Contrary New Year thanks to our Winter 2003 issue, featuring gorgeous fiction by Sandra Carlson Khalil, John Abbott John Abbott Anna Ufaeva, Edward Mc Whinney, and lyrical commentary by Lesley M. O’Connell Lesley M OConnell contrarymagazine.com/issues/winter-…

"How do we measure the frequencies of our loss?" About Jared Beloff's (@Read_Instead) debut WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD, Diane Seuss writes, "These poems enact an acuity of tenderness that is rare in contemporary poetry." Read more of his work here: linktr.ee/yetzirahpoets

Our Spring 2023 issue is sprung! With new fiction from Cork by Edward Mc Whinney, lyrical non-fiction from Tasmania by Emma Wilkins, from Bristol, UK by Rebecca Cawley-Hassall, and from Brooklyn— Chicago's loss—by @jerushacrone. contrarymagazine.com

When I first saw the Wigleaf list was out, I began by searching the Longlist. No luck, I thought -- hadn't pub-ed much last yr. Then out of a casual interest, I scrolled the Top50. Lo & behold I'M THERE 😭 ty🙏@VenitaBlackburn @laughingyeti Contrary Magazine contrarymagazine.com/2022/dark-matt…

The Summer 23 Contrary features fiction by Leah Browning, Kaitlin Tan, Conor Robin Madigan Conor Madigan, and our 40th story by Edward Mc Whinney, plus poems by Heather Truett @mmerubies, Sarah McCartt-Jackson, and Nnadi Samuel Samuel Samba contrarymagazine.com

"It was possible that she hadn’t remembered their arrangement—maybe that was all—or maybe she didn’t like the look of him." Read "Caught," in Contrary Magazine by WTAW #Betty author Leah Browning contrarymagazine.com/2023/caught/ #WritingCommunity