David Elliot Eisenstat

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My Teenage Daughter Visit the post for more.

Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.

"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...

Next 🍋 Writing Sprint: Saturday, April 12th
11 AM CT / 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
Free • On Zoom • Open to all genres

Join us for two quiet, focused hours of writing.
Bring your project or start something new. Prompts provided (but totally optional).

RSVP: lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

The Opposite of Dusk Visit the post for more.

"There’s a sun out there somewhere but I can’t see it. For some reason, I want to find it, but it’s buried alive."

Read "The Opposite of Dusk"
by Ron Riekki ☀️

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On Craft Visit the post for more.

"On Craft" by Erica Dawson @ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social

"The first job of the poet is to say / what we are, the second what we are becoming.
I turn the pages over on the desk.
The radiator hisses hard. Sunset."

Read the whole poem from issue 20 on our site!

variantlit.com/on-craft/

Submit Visit the post for more.

If you're sending out work today, send us your poems or prose! We're open now through April 5 for our Summer issue.

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The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat | MINYAN The Bread of Affliction by David Elliot Eisenstat from Issue Fourteen

“I remember the first night of Passover for once, but the store is out of matzo, and—oh no—the smallest bag of flour barely fits in my granny cart.”

The fourteenth issue of Minyan Magazine (@minyanmag.bsky.social) is out today, with a prose poem by yours truly:

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Screenshot of “A Brooklyn Atheist.” The lineation is important and I don’t trust Bluesky not to mangle it, so please follow the link.

My poem “A Brooklyn Atheist at Summer’s End” just appeared in the new issue of Midway Journal! midwayjournal.com/a-brooklyn-a...

We've extended the deadline for the Regular Reading Period! Keep sending us your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Monday, January 20th, at noon EST for the chance to be featured in a future issue of Ploughshares. pshares.org/submit/

Poets! Essayists! We want your work!

Hey, writers! Just want to put this on your radar. There's a rash of new accounts here trying to scam writers by pretending to be book marketers. They are generally not legit. You can recognize them because:

And we’re open @variantlit.bsky.social for poetry and prose (3-micro series, flash up to 1500 words and fiction up to 20 pages)! Please submit only once through 12/31 unless invited otherwise. Can’t wait to read your lovelies!

Announcing the 2024 Winter Guest Calls for JAKE!🧵

Calling all @variantlit.bsky.social contributors! We’re here in the blue and gearing up to open for subs!

Eventide at the Lake House That Used to Be My Father’s | Rust & Moth Patrolling, two green darners stitch the air. I shouldn’t be here, but he loved this dock: as blackbirds trill, a water strider drifts beneath, then scrabbles toward coins of light let slip by willows....

New #poetry from David Elliot Eisenstat: "Eventide at the Lake House That Used to Be My Father’s".