BIG BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! We’re upsizing from travel-sized-wash-your-dishes-in-the-airplane-bathroom-bottle to a real quart because the wonderful Ben Starr and the incredible Trinity Richardson have joined the Dishsoap team!
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Happy official release day for Issue 38 Spring 2026 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine!
Our new issue features the creative works of 41 contributors from all around the world
You can read samples and order copies on our website:
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/sprin...
Variant Lit open for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, and speculative.
Submissions are open for our summer issue!
variantlit.submittable.com/submit
🗓️Monthly reminder: The circle is always open and ready to read your poem.
-- 28-day or less turnaround
-- Simple submission requirements
-- No fee
Full guidelines here:
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...
Tonight!
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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...
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/
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Since my first paid publication is happening this month (🥳🥳) I figure that makes me a professional poet now 😎 So here are 3 realisations that improved my writing and got me published, by a paid professional 💅
✨️🧵✨️
#poetry #writingcommunity
Shine your flashlight off the pier and see what enters the beam of light 🔦 in "Beacon" by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social
variantlit.com/beacon/
You could use this to get Issue 21 with my poem in it 👀 And some other great books! I'm a big fan of Mostly Soldiers by Cora Ruskin, which is chock full of fun and meaningful poems about statues.
#writingcommunity
Read a poem today! "Ley Lines" by Nick Daoust
variantlit.com/ley-lines/
One night only! End of AWP!
22.02.2026 04:01 — 👍 27 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 5Wow! Just realized my book’s nearly 4 years old already!! Which doesn’t sound right because I’m pretty sure it only came out last year. Buy Deliver Thy Pigs, my earnest little novel about trees and Illinois and slaughterhouses so I can afford to send it to college!
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He gets the mail, reads all of it, even the T-Mobile phone stuff, the “Your car warranty has expired!” The Sam’s Club brochure. The TV is on inside, mainly for the noise, the laughter and the clapping. He’s tired, just getting the mail; almost got stuck outside. Embarrassing.
Read the poem "The Bravest Among Us" by @theonlygman.bsky.social from the new issue of Variant
variantlit.com/the-bravest-...
Excerpt from "Mirror Listing, No Refunds" by Stefanie Lee: "I try not to explain. Like photographing a mirror to sell online, I crop the fatigue out with a surgeon’s precision. Angle the frame to hide the worst of it—misfire in my muscles, the way my spine leans as a question no one dares to ask. Still, evidence leaks in..."
A poem too, before the day is done. From issue 22: "Mirror Listing, No Refunds" by Stefanie Lee
variantlit.com/mirror-listi...
It was an awesome experience to edit this banger of a story from @joeyhedger.bsky.social, up now in the most recent issue of Variant Lit: variantlit.com/the-gunshine...
19.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Check out this new story from @rebeccavl.bsky.social which explores perceived vs real dangers, friendship, and the anxiety of the "perfect" lake day, from @variantlit.bsky.social issue 22
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Test pressings of the (admittedly ambitious) double album music issues have arrived!! The needle drops on these very soon. Get your pre-orders in for one or both!
www.stanchionzine.com/shop
Check out my latest story…
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A new hot bombshell has entered the villa? HEAR ME OUT. A LOVE STORY WHERE YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH A KENNEL AND YOU MEET THE MAN OF YOUR DREAMS... and it's a dog? Wait! #dogyard is here with it's first ever themed call! Send us something to be happy about. Let's have fun and fall in love.
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For a more accessible version: Vultures | Variant Literature https://share.google/7GMg9iQrSkNorWTCy
With gratitude to @variantlit.bsky.social, a poem about one act of my grief for my aunt.
You would have loved her.
heart background: Calling all disabled creatives. Today is the last day to submit for issue 5 (no theme)! You have until 11:59 pm PST Tonight! Please see our submission guidelines on our website!
🚨 Calling all disabled, chronically ill, mental health-related, and neurodivergent creators🚨 TODAY is the LAST DAY to submit to issue 5, which has no theme! You have until 11:59 pm PST tonight to send in last subs!
See the guidelines here: flare-magazine.com/submission-g...
Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors: T. De Los Reyes Kathy Jiang Stefanie Lee Arielle Kaplan Christie M Buchovecky Jane Zwart Grace H. Zhou Lalini Shanela Ranaraja Nick Daoust DL Pravda Jeff Whitney Guinotte Wise
Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors ✨️
T. De Los Reyes / Kathy Jiang / Stefanie Lee / Arielle Kaplan / Christie M Buchovecky / Jane Zwart / Grace H. Zhou / Lalini Shanela Ranaraja / Nick Daoust / DL Pravda / Jeff Whitney / Guinotte Wise
variantlit.com/issue-twenty...
I’m thrilled to have a poem in Issue 22! Thanks to the editors of @variantlit.bsky.social for giving “Dog Museum” a home!
variantlit.com/dog-museum/
Three poems we love from David Ebenbach in our Winter 2026 issue: newworldwriting.net/david-ebenba...
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Mini journals www.ethelzine.com/shop/scrap-p... :)
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We have a new online issue! Selected and edited by students at Temple University, under the guidance of @mikeingram.bsky.social
www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/t...
I'm so excited about this free poetry workshop hosted by @variantlit.bsky.social !
Don't forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
