If you are near Tiverton, RI--this reading is sure to be fabulous. x.com/medpie1/status…

Now Available for Preorder! 🥳 variantlit.com/product/earthl… Take a peek inside— look at those blurbs! and hit that preorder button :) Earthly Gods is coming this September!

We will open for submissions on May 25!

Q: I thought prose and poetry were open in separate months...? A: We changed it up. All together now. Q: Are you still going to publish four times a year? A: No, dropping to twice a year. Send while you can!

The pulse of suspense.

Q- for writers. How does this quote apply to you? Personally-this absolutely resonates. #amwriting #WritingLife #AuthorsOfTwitter

Excited to have this story find a home ⁦@jmwwjournal⁩ Themes that keep coming: girlhood, generational trauma, mothers/daughters. please read and share. Thank you. #Fiction : A Few Things by Jeanne-Marie Fleming | JMWW jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/fic…

“I hated this family. I wanted to paint my toenails pink, or do Mad Libs, or just swing my arms without the hindrance of a bratty brother” Jeanne-Marie Fleming from “Skutch” losangelesreview.org/skutch-by-jean… #LARnonfiction #cnf

A look inside Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance: How to Live by todd dillard this chapbook releases end of month! Get your copy here: variantlit.com/product/td/

This collection by Amy Stuber is so good. Last night I dreamed about one of her characters, Frida, from the story “Dead Animals” (originally published in joyland ) The stories here are funny and brooding and surprising—and will live in my head for a long time.

We love 'Still, Nearby' by Fawn Emmalee Ward. Read now in Issue 19 of Variant. "Still, nearby, a close warmth of unwashed skin, the scabbing friction of calloused feet in broken shoes, dry writhing, the noise of a grasshopper boom" variantlit.com/still-nearby/

"Scott slunked past the rancid stinking cafeteria & past the 6th-graders' mosaic of tiles, his tile—black with a single white dot in the center. His eyes smiled when they landed on his dot—his father, sinking in a murky sea." - Jeanne-Marie Fleming mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

Two Stories | MrBullBull These came out today! M for “Misanthrope”and “Circle Game” Thank you ⁦BULL⁩ mrbullbull.com/newbull/flash-…

We're now accepting submissions for issue 20 of Variant Literature. My poems appeared in issue 6 and I've been volunteering with the journal in some capacity since issue 8. Feeling very grateful for poetry and kind people. Send us your work!

Featuring beautiful work by parker logan, @colourofpoetr, Erica Dawson, Para Vadhahong, @allenWhy, Richard Jordan, shira, Aekta Khubchandani, mccaela, @maraleegrayson, Michael Agunbiade, Tom Lee, Jennifer McMahon, Evan Morgan Williams, Thom Hawkins

This Sunday - listen to two poets read their work and answer author questions. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This is terrific new!

Amid all the doom and gloom about lit mags shutting down or hiking submission fees, there’s also encouraging news: I noticed more are starting to pay writers, and many that already did are increasing their rates 💲