Join us for a conversation with Brenda Miller about her newest book, the craft of creative nonfiction, and the writing life. ​

In More Flowers, Susan L. Leary doesn’t have to explain herself. Instead, she creates a psychological landscape in which the speaker careens between questioning and asserting, between the concrete …

Variant Literature is excited to announce The 2026 Variant Lit Poetry Prize judged by Todd Dillard. Submissions open from May 15th to June 15th.

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A Blue Jay Flies Into the Window I see my reflection where I never expected it. One of my good friends brings scotch to celebrate our birthdays. We pull our masks down

In Terrestrial, Suzy Eynon renders the Arizona desert as both landscape and signal, a place where loneliness sits just beneath the surface and connection often feels out of reach. Set in the shadow…

about Stiff Wrist Stiff Wrist is the latest pamphlet from US based poet Ben Kline, looking at how we age in a gay world based around youth. The poems in the book celebrate our forefathers and recog...

Podcast Episode · Question Everything · March 5 · 28m

In the time between emptying, the baby’s mother curled atop the spare mattress in the baby’s would-be room. The couple had bought two mattresses from a motel’s going-out-of-business sale—a king for th...

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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,…