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Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What is life like after winning a Lammy? I interviewed @benkline.bsky.social to find out! Interview is up at @variantlit.bsky.social

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Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Submissions are OPEN for poetry, prose (fiction & nonfiction), and art! We pay a small honorarium for accepted work. For more details on what we're looking for and how to send it our way, please visit the link in our bio.

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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hi, all! Please send some longform work to my grad students' journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social by October 15. They'd especially love to see more nonfiction submissions! lastsyllablelit.com/submit

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Submit | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please celebrate with me my friends! 🎉 My third chapbook, Sky In Some Mosaic, is now available for preorder from the wonderful Pinhole Poetry Press (@pinholepoetry.bsky.social). Each copy will be made by hand and beautiful. Link in bio. More information to follow.

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FLARE Magazine (SUBS CLOSED) @flarelitmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🔥 Announcement: Due to a lonely inbox, 🥲 we've decided to EXTEND the blog post and media reviews (for our Substack) submission window to October 16th, by 11:59 pm PST! Our first blog post drops tomorrow! Make sure you subscribe (it's free) to @ flarelitmagnewsletter! 🧵 (1/2)

leaves background: We've decided to extend the blog and media reviews (for our Substack) submission window to October 16th, by 11:59 pm PST! Our first blog post drops tomorrow! Check out the guidelines for how to submit!

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It feels silly to buy just one chapbook, so I almost never do. I’m pickier about full-lengths, though.

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We're excited to announce the winners of our inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize as chosen by @toddedillard.bsky.social! Congratulations to 1st place winner Zoe Berger, 2nd place winner Chiwenite Onyekwelu, and 3rd place winner Emily Portillo! Read the winning poems: variantlit.com/2026-variant...

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The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize Winner’s Announced

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And congratulations to our Honorable Mentions: “Two Poems about the Men in my Family” – Bhavya Bhagtani “Market Price” – Bethany Bruno “Things that aren’t” – Jen Hallaman “SNATCH” – Suzanne Richardson “Oliver chooses the mite” – Jane Zwart

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I prefer journals with a thesis about what they’re trying to do, which is not to say that I prefer sameyness.

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Jennifer L. Pozner @jennpozner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Baby's first Substack newsletter! I hope you'll subscribe for free to It's Not You, It's Media and share it everywhere, because I need your help to get media literacy tools and media activism strategies to folks who need them. Image from my graphic novel. Words: me. Illustrations: Gideon Kendall.

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Media Literacy and Media Activism:

Bullsh*t detectors, passivity blasters, and more self defense for an authoritarian age

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Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In the dark of the early morning, a new issue rises! The August 2026 issue of Defenestration has rubbed the sleep out of its eyes and is ready for you to read. Check out all the free #fiction and #poetry we have for you this month: bit.ly/4hKid3g #DefenestrationMagazine

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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Friends, Submissions to “Elementary Penguin: A journal of Words, Wordplay, Poetry, and Puzzles” are now open! Details here: anthonyetherin.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Lee Potts @leepottspoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is the first part of my poem in the new issue of Trampoline Poetry (@trampolinepoetry.bsky.social). Thanks to Justin Lacour for publishing it. You can read the rest of it (as well as excellent poems by Joshua C. Pipkins and Jason Ryberg) here www.trampolinepoetry.com

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Pine Hills Review @pinehillsreview.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

“We got kicked out of karaoke for booing the Cake version of ‘I Will Survive’” by Susan Kolon "you LOL after I drive an hour // to a new friend who cancels, / sad smiley when a guy grabs my purse // at Chevron. I invite you to drink Zin / on the beach, you miss the plane."

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“We got kicked out of karaoke for booing the Cake version of ‘I Will Survive’” by Susan Kolon

you LOL after I drive an hour // to a new friend who cancels, / sad smiley when a guy grabs my purse // at Chevron. I invite you to drink Zin on the beach, you miss the plane.

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South Broadway Press @southbroadwaypress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

South Broadway Press has an open call for submissions to our Autumn 2026 Online Edition! We will be selecting our five Best of the Net nominations from poems selected for this call! southbroadwaypress.org/call-for-sub...

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Call For Poetry Submissions: Autumn 2026 Online Edition

Image: Algozhy South Broadway Press has an open call for poetry for our autumn 2026 edition. There is no theme for the autumn edition. Please send us your best poems. South Broadway Press loves to …

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"As a kid I walked backwards from the glass until a thumb could cover every shark in Camden." Check out "Octopus Years" by Jason Zhang variantlit.com/octopus-years/

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Octopus Years

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"there is nothing to understand from the center of an ocean. just confusion. just endlessness. just distant horizons and skylines." from "ocean nocturne" by Chimezie Umeoka variantlit.com/ocean-noctur...

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ocean nocturne

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South 85 Journal @south85journal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Send us your work!!! We've got an enthusiastic faculty editor & reading team ~ all work comes from the queue ~ we nominate for prizes ~ $100 for 1 published piece Subs open through 8/1 south85journal.com

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

"I’d build a cathedral to touching, all pinnacles and arcs." In today's miCRo, Lyn Li Che reminds us of how we can be surrounded by others and still be lonely. Link in thread.

Quote from Che: "I'd build a cathedral to touching, all pinnacles and arcs."

Lyn Li Che, an Asian-American woman with long hair and dark-rimmed glasses, smiles on a seaside beach.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 13/06/2026

🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry: It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline! @benkline.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social 🎉🎉 #Lammys2026 #LammyAwards

Winner graphic displaying the book cover of It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline!

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"nightly departure into the dreaming water made of wave forms oscillating in to the body’s container..." In this week's miCRo, "Traversing Floodwaters In Helios’s Cup" by @lowermelody.bsky.social, an enigmatic poem puzzles the classical. Read the full poem at our site. Link in thread.

white text on a dark-gray background: nightly departure / into the dreaming / water made of wave / forms oscillating in / to the body's container. D. W. Baker, "Traversing Floodwaters in Helios's Cup"

A closeup of a tarnished but shiny vase with sea scenes engraved on it

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shovda @shovda.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hi, I have a poem in the newest issue of @variantlit.bsky.social about acceptance and womanhood and my MFA program. variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

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Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The ducks in this poem were witnessed at sunrise in Palatka which I was visiting for a poetry conference. It's exciting to see them fly out into the world 🦆 #newpoems #poems #poetry #floridapoets #Florida #Floridawriters #waterpoems #familypoems #poetrysky

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Getting some gorgeous submissions...but where is yours? Please send us your heartbreaking, hilarious, harrowing, honestly human-made poetry, flash, fiction, and nonfiction. Our reading period is open until June 30th. We can't wait to read your work! leonliteraryreview.com/submit-2/

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Submit – LEON Literary Review

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TRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So honored and overjoyed to share the beautiful “Exposure” by the phenomenal David Ryan. Read it here: variantlit.com/exposure/

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Exposure

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TRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This story’s quite “Something” you won’t want to miss!

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What do you need right now? Maybe you need my odd new poem about Jane Goodall’s Hologram in @variantlit.bsky.social's new Summer Issue... variantlit.com/jane-goodall/

Jane Goodall’s Hologram standing with hands clasped in front of her...probably not apologizing for late stage capitalism,but you never know...

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I’ve got a new poem in the latest issue of @variantlit.bsky.social! variantlit.com/the-garden-o...

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The Garden of Hands

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

New Variant poetry! Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed helping curate it.

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hi, friends. Some news! My debut chapbook, “Ghost in the Rain,” is out now from Bottlecap Press! It’s got 12 micro & flash stories: lost ghosts, immortal siblings & haunted lovers. I poured years of my heart into this book. So proud & thrilled to see it in the world! bottlecap.press/products/gho...

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Ghost in the Rain: Stories, by Matthew Jakubowski

Prose, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In these 12 microfictions and flash stories, Matthew Jakubowski traces a terrain of otherworldly-ness populated by lost ghosts, haunted lovers, immo...

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

This is such a generous, lovely review from a writer whose work I admire @jonathanin2k.bsky.social! Thank you for spending time with my book and thanks Jeff @stanchion.bsky.social for publishing this.

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Send us a poem! variantlit.submittable.com/submit

Now open! 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize, for a single, exceptional poem. Judged by Todd Dillard.

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Send me stuff!!!

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Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Preorders of Terrestrial from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social are shipping this week!

Rare photo of the author holding up her book in one hand, brown hair, middle aged woman

Stack of books, Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon, on a blue blanket

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

As I open on Monday & as I'm the only reader, maybe it'd be helpful to know what I like? Favorite lyric, currently: "I woke up in the back seat of a speeding car. With my head up against to the window glass. And the full moon in my arms" Favorite book, all time: The Safekeep 🧵

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Variant Literature is excited to announce Trusting the Image: List Poems, a free generative poetry workshop led by writer Ashley Kim! @ashlogophile.bsky.social variantlit.com/free-poetry-...

Trusting the Image: Writing List Poems, a Variant poetry workshop led by Ashley Kim. May 21, 2026 at 6pm PST.

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Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

So pleased to have a poem in the Stone Circle Review today.

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Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

While you check out the latest issue, know that Defenestration is once again open to short story and poetry submissions. Find all the details here: bit.ly/105Enuu

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Haven't done this in ages: Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs. I'm so curious what you'll pick.

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David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

An odd choice, perhaps, but I wanted to see where it all started. I wish (hypocritically) that more editors wrote notes.

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Submit to Stanchion on April 27. No fees, bit of cash. www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Lovely doozy of a prose poem up this week. Find a cat, hold it, and read "Juno" by Trinity Richardson together. Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-14-26

Juno by Trinity Richardson:

February was concrete in its application; October was more theoretical. The cashier tells me kittens shouldn’t have cow’s milk. The bottle splatters against the pavement in a way that reminds me I don’t know what I’m doing. I keep her cradled to my chest hoping if she can hear my heartbeat she’ll know what I can’t say. The years wash over me—what feels like one is actually three. This is a confession. The powerline hums and I imagine an angel running through the wires. I imagine taking the train to work. I am afraid I will never know what has become of you. Or worse, what will become of us. I am lonely in a way I’ve never been, because this time there is no reason for it. I go to work. I pick up groceries. I make cheesecake and let her have a small bite. It’s not that good, but it keeps me busy and I like the way the cream tastes before I bake it. She likes it. She is fixated on fire and sometimes I forget to put a candle out of reach and she singes her fur. I always feel guilty. This is a confession.

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Excited to announce that our team has grown even more!!! So thrilled to welcome M. J. Young, Lillie E. Franks, and Cameron Vernali to the small but mighty Dishsoap family :)

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Open 2 more days! Send us your prose with layered meaning and metaphor. We're especially drawn to stories with a strong voice. Check out issue 22 for examples of prose we love! variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

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ISSUE TWENTY-TWO

Variant Literature Issue 22 (Winter 2026) features poetry from T. De Los Reyes, Kathy Jiang, Arielle Kaplan, Grace H. Zhou, and Jeff Whitney, and more. The issue also includes prose by Joey Hedger,…

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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Closing soon! Fiction and speculative categories close March 29

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TRossi (she/her) @trossiwriter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Meanwhile, in the queue @variantlit.bsky.social, we seek narrative long-form fiction (see past issues for our editorial sensibility), flash prose, and micro (themed) series. Send us your beauties, the weirds, and the aches!

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

POEM 320 Self-Portrait as Funeral Star by Tina Kelley (@tinakelley.bsky.social) As you file in take a packet of forget-me-not seeds, feel bad if you forget to plant them. While I’m at it, bury me how I sleep, tummy down, cozy, or I’ll be restless, haunt you all. stonecirclereview.com/self-portrait

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