Flight: A Literary Sampler

Flight 3 is here with four works all related to the theme of art!

Let’s take a walking tour through this issue:

Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

This issue’s Brewer’s Choice is the first collaborative work we’ve featured in Flight, from @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”

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Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

“I am not the heart of anything but lists, chores, errands. You, you are the heart of a storm. The only still point in turbulence.”

We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

Paul Luikart- Fiction Rose Parade Some kid knocked and I opened up. Why? I never do that. He was raising money for the band. The band. They were off to Pasadena, he said, for the Rose Parade. I went into my pocket, hand...

Our fiction selection for this issue is the story “Rose Parade” by @paulluikart.bsky.social

“I went into all the reasons I never open my door and barely ever even go out. Chiselers, cheats, grifters, junkies, flunkies, landlords”

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Dominik Slusarczyk- Creative Nonfiction An Analysis of Transfiguration In this painting Jesus is floating near the top, He is surrounded by brightly lit clouds. I think this is a depiction of Jesus rising into Heaven. After he died he wa...

For creative nonfiction, we have work from Dominik Slusarczyk, with his essay “An analysis of Transfiguration”

“Nowadays, we do the Heimlich maneuver. I doubt they had that when Jesus was around but there must have been something else they did.”

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Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

Our poetry selection is “Ars Poetica: Tulips” from @carriganak.bsky.social

“Petals fall into your cereal, soaking in milk and staining Cheerios”

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Flight 3 is here with four works all related to the theme of art!

Let’s take a walking tour through this issue:

Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

"I want to give up this affinity for air, this habit of making myself light, this repeated way of disappearing and returning: sea, mountain, sea." Gorgeous collaboration in @flightlit.bsky.social b/w@pleomorphic2.bsky.social & @kathrynreese.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

So chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social featuring names and storms, and also a super awkward neurodiverse interview in which I (cringe) say “more clearer or firmer” and that will now haunt me forever 😁 . flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

When you only publish one poem per issue it HAS to be a banger, and @carriganak.bsky.social really delivers

I love @carriganak.bsky.social’s work & the poem in Flight 3 is an absolute stunner.

Flight 3

And read the pieces themselves here!

flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3/

Flight 3 Now Live! Editor's Intro Where Flight 2 reflected the anxieties of the ongoing horrors, Flight 3 turns inward with pieces that focus on art and artistic processes. In Flight 2, we looked at all the submitted w...

Flight 3 is out today! This issue is all about...art!

We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk

Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...

Flight 3 takes off tomorrow! Right now, our editors are working on preparing a very cool interview with Brewer's Choice feature artists @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social all about their collaborative process

Flight The idea for Flight: A Literary Sampler, was born 30,000 feet above Los Angeles. One of the editors was hungover, flying back from AWP, still dreaming about the flight of beers they had at a sketchy b...

Hey! We're the featured listing of the day on @duotrope.com

Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!

duotrope.com/magazine/fli...

First acceptance of 2026 yesterday and it's...not for poetry!
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.

A few stats for the submission nerds out there!

During our quick response call we:

-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)

This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%

And although the Paris Review has been silent on the issue, Flight will tell you if Paris is any good or not

All responses for our quick response window have been sent!

If you submitted and haven’t gotten an email, please reach out to us at our site email, flightliterary@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone who submitted! You didn’t make it easy on us!

Luke and Han on Hoth in Empire Strikes Back

Now we go live to antifa headquarters in Minnesota

Hi folks! If you submitted to our quick response window and haven’t heard back yet, you’ll have a response by tomorrow

Our goal was to get back to everyone today, but you all are making it hard with the quality of submissions, and the debates have been fierce!

Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

After a brief pause while we started working through quick response submissions, our general rolling submissions form is back open for all categories for Issue 5:

flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

That’s all, folks! Thanks to everyone who submitted. If you haven’t already heard back, you’ll get a response by Saturday

Clock’s ticking! You’ve got half an hour (give or take) to slip something in under the wire

Poets! Don’t make us tap the sign!

8 hours! Send us something!

Two more days to get in a submission for a response this week!

We’d especially love to see more Brewer’s Choice submissions: send your collages, your photos, your humor pieces, your huddled reviews yearning to breath free

Of Poetry Graphic featuring author photo and cover of Another Life and the text: OF POETRY PODCAST Frances Kein I HAVE NEVER WANTED ANOTHER LIFE Frances Klein (Of the Alaskan Rural, the Quantifying Work That Poets Do Best, and the Emotional Intensity of Writing Labor) EPISODE 82

Hope you spend time with Episode 82 featuring @fklein907.bsky.social this week, if you haven’t yet—maybe the break you need from the news. Poets are good company. 🎙️📚💜

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/7e12c6c8 @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social

Gentle reminder, beloveds, that we are closed for poetry, and that submitting poetry under a different genre will not make us magically reopen