We seek micros in a series of three, like this excellent prizewinner by @melissabowers in @fracturedlit.bsky.social:
fracturedlit.com/bowers/
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We seek micros in a series of three, like this excellent prizewinner by @melissabowers in @fracturedlit.bsky.social:
fracturedlit.com/bowers/
Send us your literary stories heavy with strange metaphor and liminal stands, grounded in narrative and ethereal beauty. Check out prior issues and submit here:
variantlit.com/issues/
Book of Extraction: Poems with teeth Adrian Dallas Frandle Cover: The title in gold on a background of black. In place of the T in extraction is a sword impaled in a matching gold molar. “A prayer that will make you tongue your teeth and truly feel the sacred that lay waiting: sometimes in decay, sometimes in union, always in the magic mundane of white walls and ivory teeth.” - Lauren Theresa, author of Lost Things kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick
“A prayer that will make you tongue your teeth and truly feel the sacred that lay waiting: sometimes in decay, sometimes in union, always in the magic mundane of white walls and ivory teeth.” - Lauren Theresa, author of Lost Things
@adrianf.bsky.social
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Hey, writing & reading Kin, I know that some of y'all were in Baltimore & might be poetryed out. But if you still have room for a morsel, maybe you'll tune in to Rattlecast tonight at 8pm EST?
youtube.com/live/XNhMYKf...
Congrats to @queercomrades.bsky.social on the performance! Read the original story here: variantlit.com/zizzi/
Performed in my short play 'Zizzi' with Altus Chan at the
Birmingham Hippodrome New Earth theatre makers showcase two weeks ago. Thanks to everyone involved for the support! www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/new...
NEW POEMS BY ME!!!!
big thanks to @bulbregion.bsky.social for including this batch and another to come soon
Thank you for sharing this!
Today's Feature:
"Hear a Door" by Ernest Jésùyẹmí from A Pocket of Genesis published by @variantlit.bsky.social
Read here:
poems.com/poem/hear-a-...
"My dad is a 1987 Casita travel trailer that gave up in rural nowhere. Sixteen feet long, round in the middle, he is hard to reach for, hard to find, and impossible to reconcile."
It's been 10 years since my dad died.
From the archives at @variantlit.bsky.social: variantlit.com/death-of-the...
We're not at AWP but we are reading for our summer issue! Have some poetry or prose ready for us? We're excited to read your work!
Are you sad you're missing AWP? Join our open mic Thursday @ 8:00 pm Eastern!
Wish you could hit the book fair? The hotel bar? Just pile up your 79 unread books you already own by your computer, grab a drink, and get NAWPy!
Check out the new book coming soon from poetry reader (and author of Do Us A Favor) @mrdecember.bsky.social!
Sharing new work from poetry reader @lowermelody.bsky.social
Hey everyone, I know a lot of you are doin' AWP-y shit, but I'd like to direct you to the link here where you can pre-order my debut full length manuscript!!!! 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
No cover yet, but you'll see that soon ;-)
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Variant Lit is open for submissions of prose and poetry. Photo by staff member of the moon in the trees in the pacific northwest.
We're open for submissions! Send us your best prose or poetry: variantlit.com/submit/
March goes out like a lamb and comes in with a ton of sub opportunities, so take advantage of a few that just opened:
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And just like that, we are open for submissions.
The world needs art and beauty, so send us yours. Guidelines @variantlit.com
Variant Lit open for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, and speculative.
Submissions are open for our summer issue!
variantlit.submittable.com/submit
A photo of street pavement and white double lines.
It's ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, fam 💕 Fiction reader @joeyhedger.bsky.social published a new story in @variantlit.bsky.social 💕
NAWP! said the ostrich. Our 4th annual poetry reading (for those unable to attend AWP) March 5th at 7pm
Hey! Don't miss out on the FOMO and poems. Sign up to read here:
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Registered to attend (readers & nonreaders) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nawp-open-...
Division I Boyfriend tells me to stop crying. To be quiet. To sit. He can’t be stressed now. If we lose to State, he might get angry. He might do something. Someone might get hurt. He doesn’t say it, but I know that someone might be me. “That’s how important this is, Babe,” he says. He thrashes fists. “State’s no joke!”
"Everyone Wants to Be Division I" by S. H. Woodgeard
variantlit.com/everyone-wan...
"In the glowing lobby of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, one is to choose one’s skater. Hair type, board. One can even be an alien or Jesus"
"What Thou Lovest Well Remains American" by Jeff Whitney
variantlit.com/what-thou-lo...
Have you read "The Gunshine State" by @joeyhedger.bsky.social from our latest issue yet? It's about going home again, old acquaintances, and who gets to be a hero.
"I don’t trust puns. It’s like they’re always pretending to mean something more but never do."
variantlit.com/the-gunshine...
Tonight!
Excerpt from "Mermua" by Gerardo Mercado "Dear Carm, about your living dead man by the river, I believe you. Puerto Rico has many wonderful things about it—the people, the nature, the food and culture—but its other side, the violent side, the painful and macabre side, is just as real, just as real as us anyway, and, well, last week, I think I saw the devil in the woods."
"Mermua" by Gerardo J. Mercado begins like this! Read the whole story at the link: variantlit.com/mermua/
Terracotta by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja "You’re drinking the wax he’s seethed for you, frothing the stained-glass flute in which his grandmother hoarded lavender talcum. Do you feel guilty yet? The wax is filmy with salt; not his first Saturday frittered with waiting on you, tilted towards the street. Last week the flat was cold and you chipped candles with a blunt butter knife. The bathroom door was bolted..."
From issue 22, read the poem "Terracotta" by Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
variantlit.com/terracotta/
"...just a few months prior it had been summer, and she lay sticky and pregnant on the laminate floor, her baby cooking inside her like a dragon’s egg over coals."
From "Cold Snap," a new short story by @megjnic.bsky.social.
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Shine your flashlight off the pier and see what enters the beam of light 🔦 in "Beacon" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social
variantlit.com/beacon/
Heard the sea explain
our own blood through us