Rhetorical Convergence The rapid collapse of stylistic variance as AI-assisted communication gravitates toward a single orthodoxy of clarity, conciseness, and civility. This is already happening in subtle ways: emails now read like press releases, short essays like complete

🔔 Submissions open! 🔔 Channel is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish for Issue 14. We can’t wait to read your work - get it to us before the deadline of 20 November 📝🌿🌼 channelmag.org/submissions/

Send your poetry & stories to Variant Literature ! Open Oct 21st to Dec 4th. No fee to submit. Pays $10 per acceptance.

We can't wait to read your work! variantlit.com/submit

You know what's really real? Asking grok "Is this real?"

I'd like to see some fiction in the @variantlit queue about this. Or maybe I'll write some myself.

I’m thinking about hosting a Zoom meetup for poets & writers who also freelance in marketing, project management, or adjacent creative work. Would love to discuss how to balance integrity, art, and client work. Does this sound interesting to anyone?

I've been giving away books, but keeping sci-fi, myths, fables, legends, and fairy tales.

Sunday reminder that we're accepting poetry & prose variantlit.submittable.com/submit

Meet Tori Walters, Managing Editor of Flash Prose and Micros! "I am looking for work that dives deeper, goes a shade more vulnerable—and does so in a way that feels fully realized within the constraint of flash prose."

Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10 literaryartsfund.org/about/

Meet Prose Editor, Brandon Ahmad Haffner! He received his MFA from UNC Greensboro. His fiction appears in the Sewanee Review, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Carolina Quarterly, & other journals. He teaches creative writing at Longwood University and lives in Richmond, VA

The 2 questions we're most asked at the food ministry I volunteer at: 1. What hoops do I have to jump through for food? 2. Do I have to go to church for food? To which we answer: 1. As few as we can get away with. 2. No.

Last night our 4-year old told us that everyone has a ghost inside their bodies and the ghost keeps us alive.

More staff spotlights! Teddy is a production assistant and poetry reader at Variant and an editorial fellow at A Public Space. His poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Hobart, ExPat Press, Poet’s Row, and elsewhere.

Less than a month left to submit!

Very excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!

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We are still reading for our Winter Issue!

We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026: “On Craft” by Erica Dawson “Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee “Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy “Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus “Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means “The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki