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Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com/ Submissions open now!
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
I wrote a prose poem that's been graciously published as a message board post, and you should all have a look at it! (CW: animal death)
01.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The graphic for The Fiddlehead’s 2025 Poetry Contest. The graphic reads: Turn over a new stanza. Enter our 2025 Poetry Contest. Deadline: December 1 2025. Enter via submittable. $2000 Prize plus publication. Judged by Bertrand Bickersteth, T. Liem, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. For more info visit thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
It's the very last day to submit to our 2025 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem!
Submit or post your submission by 11:59 pm Pacific Time for a chance to won $2000 and publication in The Fiddlehead!
thefiddlehead.ca/poetry-contest
#poetrycontest #poetry #callforsubmissions #canlit
-ette & Pushcart logos with list of nominated stories: Laura Cronk, "The Chance" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/cronk/ Suzy Eynon, "Landlines" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/eynon/ Amy Holman, "Stuck" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025) https://ettereview.com/spring2025/holman/ Rachel Kowalsky, "Dear Dolores" (Fall 2025: Issue 6, "Roulette," Oct. 30, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/kowalsky/ Emma Raimondo, "Death in Los Angeles" (Spring 2025: Issue 5, May 9, 2025) https://ettereview.com/fall2025/raimondo/
Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees!
Laura Cronk
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@amyholman.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Nora Esme Wagner
The cover of FIREFALL: poems by Heather Lang-Cassera, featuring a black and white illustration of a woman's head and neck merging with the outline of a tree, against a red background
New review in the Encounters issue of @panoramajournal.bsky.social:
"Soundscape, Landscape, Ghost: on FIREFALL by Heather Lang-Cassera" (2025: @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social)
a full-length that explores the limits of the individual subject, the landscape, and the sonic properties of language
Final call for the November Open Reading Period! You have until Midnight EST tonight to submit your manuscript—we're accepting full length manuscripts and chapbooks in various genres. Read the full specs and submit at blacklawrencepress.submittable.com/submit 📚 ✨
30.11.2025 18:25 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Alligator by David Ryan is out today from Cash4Gold Books. Can’t wait to read!
30.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Only 6 days left to submit! We’re still reading poetry, flash, and stories for our Winter issue. Send us your work before December 4th.
variantlit.com/submit/
Variant Lit: 12 more days to submit poetry or prose. Variantlit.com/submit
We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
22.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contest submissions are now open at newohioreview.org This contest is judged by Ohio University grads who once called Ellis Hall their home!
18.11.2025 16:29 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I have a new poem in @havehashad.com that answers the burning question of "what is the opposite of an 'eating poems' poem"
"it's all coming up now,
milkweed and mango..."
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/hei...
Thank you @variantlit.bsky.social ! I am so honored to be on this list 💞
18.11.2025 11:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Variant Literature Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026: “On Craft” by Erica Dawson “Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee “Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy “Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus “Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means “The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®
It’s back 😏
Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️
www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...
Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
This story by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy is a gorgeously crafted gut punch. ✨️
17.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Open until December 4th!
16.11.2025 19:30 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Love Poem with Overwrought Similes Because That's As Close As I Can Get To Explaining It Right Now OK Lately every day I feel like I am peeling oranges while crying, like my fingers are cold-curled from missing the bus and walking home 3 miles on a day it wasn't supposed to snowand I just wanted something quick to eat while I thawed, but now it's like I'm 16 again and the orange is made of bra claspsbut also it's like I'm Heraclitus off his depression meds,like I'm certain the river can't be crossed twice because I'm going to drown. But then you hear the ice cream truck jangling like a train carrying only xylophones as cargo, and we sprint outside and wave down the truck like it's a ship and we've been wrecked on an island of Wednesdays for 14 years. We order the biggest ice creams on the menu, and our faces break into smiles like a child's laughter cartwheeling across a funeral home. We walk back holding vanilla cones aloft like a torches, we walk home like Friday lovers running into each other again at church, elbows nosing elbows like dolphins in love, the wind kiting a strand of your hair into my beard like when you are on top and your hair gets caught in my beard.
my second poem in the latest issue of @lamplitmag.bsky.social!!!
16.11.2025 14:46 — 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1Need a review on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Contributor @toddedillard.bsky.social published a review of Luisa Muradyan's new poetry book, "I Make Jokes When I'm Devastated", for Zona Motel. Catch it here: buff.ly/Kg827s9
16.11.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Variant Lit open for submissions. Submit your poetry, flash, or fiction to Variant by December 4.
variantlit.com/submit/
16.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
Heads up...Our poetry and fiction teams will no longer be accepting submissions after November 20th. Want to submit a piece? The link to submit is in our bio (and submissions are free)!
12.11.2025 18:19 — 👍 22 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0
Today's listing of the day is: Variant Literature Journal #WritingCommunity
13.11.2025 14:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1@variantlit.bsky.social is still open for submissions! Please send us your short stories, poems, and flash prose by Dec 4th!
15.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0New short story in the Fall issue of The Account! "There Has Been an Emergency"
theaccountmagazine.com/article/eyno...
I have two new poems in this! Check it out!!!
13.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Honored to have my poem nominated! ☺️
13.11.2025 17:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It’s my great honour to have my short story ‘Zizzi’ nominated for Monarch Queer Literary Awards. Thank @valeriefrankel.bsky.social for the support!
12.11.2025 01:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Variant Lit Monarch Queer Literary Awards 2026 nominees: Parker Logan, Oliver Brooks, Michael Agunbiade, Hongwei Bao, Shauna Friesen, Isaiah Gardner, Kit Evans
Very excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!
11.11.2025 17:41 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
Flyer saying SWWIM "A Poetry Reading & Conversation" with images of two women, Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall, November 13 / 7:00 PM / The B Bar / Livestream on IG/FB / The Betsy Southbeach
Join us Thursday, November 13 at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.
XO
SWWIM Team
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
#SWWIMEveryDay
