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Congratulations Ben Kline! It Was Never Supposed To Be is the 2026 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Gay Poetry!! @BenKlinePoet
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"How to Live" by @toddedillard. Just one of many wonderful poems in his chapbook, Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance.
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Chapbook submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction open next week! We can't wait to see what you've been working on!
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Happy Tuesday! We're giving away two copies of our latest poetry chapbook A Pocket of Genesis by Ernest Ògúnyẹmí! Like the post to enter. Winners announced tomorrow!
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We're open for prose until 10/31. Poetry and Visual Art open on 11/1. Send us something!
Hey writers! Get that 🍞
We linked a master copy of all the magazines closing for submissions this week in our bio.
😱(There are 60+)
The master list has room for way more details including hyper links to all the info to submit.
ALT 19 Mags that pay writers & don’t charge a fee are closing for submissions soon! Aôthen Magazine manywor(l)ds Delightfully Unhinged Press Black Stone / White Stone - A Deep Dive Zine MudRoom MetaStellar Zero Readers Variant Lit Silver Blade Magazine New Writing Scotland Tilted House Review Harbor Review Delightfully Unhinged Press God's Cruel Joke Literary Magazine Inner Worlds Banshee: A Literary Journal Brick Mythaxis Magazine OFIC Magazine The Paris Review Infrarrealista Review Chill Subs
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We want to read your poems, stories, and micros!
Submissions open from March 1st to April 5th.
- We pay a $10 honorarium
- We reply within 2 months (if not sooner)
- We are excited to read your work!
Submit: variantlit.com/submit/
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#CoverReveal If you don't know @TaylorByas3 yet now's your chance! #Bloodwarm is now available for preorder variantlit.com/product-page/… we have a sample poem & video up on the site to give a glimpse of what's in store for you in this book. It's not one you will want to miss.
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Good morning! Submissions in poetry & art are now open for our next issue ✨ variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Book birthday for this stunner next month ✨ Did someone say Giveaway?
Like the post to enter :) winners announced tomorrow noon EST!
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It was a sad time for all of us who missed the @havehadhavehad submission window last night. But hey, we open today and will stay open for *at least* 5 minutes. And actually for all of October. Send us your fiction and poetry!
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Say hello to the newest additions to the Variant family: MJ Gomez, Todd Dillard, Ian Powell-Palm, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ben Kline, Robin Rahija, and Jessica Ram! variantlit.com/contests/
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**clears throat**
Fiction and Nonfiction open!
Happy New Year!
variantlit dot submittable dot com slash submit
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The Single Life by Jeremy Radin
From Issue 12 of @VariantLit
ALT The Single Life Jeremy Radin A couple was picnicking in the park. I was there to go to the public garden for a couple sprigs of wild rosemary to tuck into my stew. A little songbird alighted as I passed them, its little face a spray of scarlet. The boyfriend said Wow, what a lovely bird, it’s got such gorgeous coloring. & I did not say it then, but I knew that it was blood— two blocks away a flock of them had slaughtered & picked clean a horse.
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We're open for submissions for the entire month of November! Send us poetry prose. We'll respond within 2 months, pay a $10 honorarium, and won't charge you to submit
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Chapbook submissions for our open reading period are open for the next two months! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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"Happy New Year! I called out. Happy New Year to the waxing moon, the telepathic sea." -Patti Smith
And then she was like, "Variant Lit submissions are open for poetry and fiction."
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Our submission window closes on December 31st! Send us your poetry & prose! variantlit.com/submit/
- No fee to submit
- Writers receive a small honorarium
- We usually respond within 2 months
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Just a heads up! We'll be taking chapbook subs in poetry this Dec. w/ selections made by @adrianf & @TaylorByas3 but not only will they pick some books you'll get to work with them & us on bringing it into the world ✨ we'll also be taking full-length subs in poetry at this time
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We at Variant Literature Journal reaffirm the importance of humanism, human rights, and the human condition as a worthy subject for art. Our antennae are up for pluripotential, layered work that transforms irregularity into beauty.
Fiction and nonfiction are open from July 1-31
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Looking for more prose submissions...
variantlit.com/submit/
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Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
ALT Variant Lit logo in black and white with text: "Get ready! We're opening for poetry and prose this month!"
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We are ~so excited~ to announce (drum roll please) The Variant Literature Pizza Prize. You get published, you get pizza, you get to bring friends.
This year's guest editor is @AMrjoian575, who loves pizza and who had the ideas that got us here.
🍕👇
variantlit.com/pizza-prize/
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Would love to read more poems and micro fiction. Subs close April 5th so send them over soon: variantlit.com/submit/
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New chapbook by @toddedillard! Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is now available for preorder and will ship late next month! Check out this cover 🤩 by Bachman+Petrie and take a early look inside the book here: variantlit.com/product/td/
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Thrilled to announce @rosswhite Director @BullCityPress
winner of the 2019 Sexton Poetry Prize will be judging our Chapbook Contest! The winning author will receive $250, 20 author copies, & reviews on their work. #RetweeetPlease #poetry #WritingCommunity variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Open for submissions! variantlit.com/submit/
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Submissions for our March 2025 issue close December 31st! We want to read your poems, flash prose, stories! We want surprise and yearning and memorable images and levity!
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#CoverReveal 🚨 MJ Gomez's debut chap, love letters from a burning planet is now available for preorder! variantlit.com/product/love-…
Special thanks to @adrianf @caesarah_ Letitia Jiju @gr8earlofhell & Daniel Liu for spending time with this book❤️Catch a glimpse inside on our website!
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Not to be dramatic but submissions close April 5th and we really want to read your poems, short stories, and flash fiction!
We want to read your poems, stories, and micros!
Submissions open from March 1st to April 5th.
- We pay a $10 honorarium
- We reply within 2 months (if not sooner)
- We are excited to read your work!
Submit: variantlit.com/submit/
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We're reading for our next issue right now! A few more days to send in some prose. Subs for art & poetry open next month! We pay $10 and nominate for everything :)
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Our team is interested in such a variety of work that we've decided in October, for a month, we're going to open up a general mss form where you can send us anything; a micro, chap, full length, novella etc.
We're excited about your work!
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Enter: the SECOND CHANCE anthology
Starring: anyone who has pulled their work from a publication for any reason
please send work to editors@variantlit.com by the end of July to be included in this re-home edition
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We are open for submissions through the end of the month!
Today's listing of the day is: Variant Literature Journal. duotrope.com/magazine/varian… #WritingCommunity
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Submissions for poetry & art are now open 🔆 variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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We are open until the end of the month for fiction and nonfiction!
We need more ✨nonfiction✨, please and thank you.
🖤🩶🖤🩶🖤🩶
https: slash slash variantlit dot submittable dot com slash submit
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Excited to share that we've been offered a fellowship with Small Press Distribution (@spdbooks)!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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We're looking for volunteers variantlit.com/join/ and hoping to connect with a lot of you interested in reading and/or editing for our mag/press, creating content on our social media platforms, and web design! There's a short google form on our site to fill out if interested!
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Keep sending us your poems and prose! We'd love to see more weird stuff in the poetry queue. If you're not sure it makes sense, but couldn't imagine it any other way-our submissions are open!
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We're making a change to our submissions schedule. Fiction and nonfiction will be open in April, and poetry and visual art will be open in May. We're looking forward to reading your work and considering it for Issue 11!
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It brings us great joy to announce that Issue 9 is now live! Huge thanks to our contributors and to our team. We count ourselves lucky to be able to share such beauty with you all.
variantlit.com/issue-nine/
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The 2021 Variant Literature Microchap Contest Results!
variantlit.com/contests/
Later today we'll be publishing the results of our Microchap Contest Judged by @LannieStabile! Y'all really came through & made this a hard decision for us & we're truly blessed to have had so much greatness in our inbox. Keep submitting and thank you for trusting us w/your work!
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We're currently open for fiction & nonfiction subs and more than happy to consider pulled pieces from Hobart. Poetry & art subs open next month! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Poetry subs for issue 7 are open early 😎 You can send us as much as 5 poems and we'll get back to you within 2months (probably sooner)! @k_lisarae joins us as guest editor this issue 🌟 variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Haven't had a chance to read @jessnirvanapoet's latest collection? Then this #giveaway is for you! Give this post a like by noon EST on Sunday and we'll send two lucky winners a copy!
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A look inside Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance: How to Live by @toddedillard this chapbook releases end of month! Get your copy here: variantlit.com/product/td/
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We're now open for cnf & art submissions! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!
Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
ALT Variant Lit logo in black and white with text: "Get ready! We're opening for poetry and prose this month!"
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Celebrating @TaylorByas3's bday with a Bloodwarm #giveaway! Like this post and give Taylor a follow to enter. We'll pick 3 random winners at midnight EST
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We're excited to share the full cover for our next full-length collection: It Was Never Supposed To Be by @BenKlinePoet! Cover Design by George Gozum 🤩 this reveal also comes with a preoder link and a look inside 👀 variantlit.com/product/iwnst…
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#CoverReveal @jasonbcrawford's Summertime Fine #chapbook #debut brought to us by his sister @hoorayforjai Entering the world July 11 ✨
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hey (with the intention of paying $10 for your poetry, art, cnf, and fiction) variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Not yet got a copy of @toddedillard's latest chapbook? Then this #Giveaway is for you! Like this post to enter by the end of the weekend and we'll send two winners a copy! In the meantime you can take a look inside the book here: variantlit.com/product/td/
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🚨 #Giveaway 🚨
@maybenoreen's latest chapbook #NotFlowers could be yours! Like this post to enter 🌸✨ we'll pick 2 winners tomorrow noon EST
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We will open for submissions on May 25!
ALT Variant Literature Journal will open for submissions of fiction, flash prose and micros, and poetry, on May 25. Submissions will close on June 30, 2024. Submissions are free and accepted writers are offered a token payment of $10. Our Masthead has changed! Founder and Editor Tyler Pufpaff Editor-in-Chief Barbara Lock Managing Editor Megan Nichols Managing Prose Editor Tessa Rossi Prose Editors William Cagle // Catherine Roberts // Barbara Byar // Jeanne-Marie Fleming //Tori Walters Prose Readers Dink Dinkins // Brandi Handley Sarah //Ashley Kim Poetry Editors David Eisenstat // Erica Abbott // Keana Moreau Poetry Readers Greer McAllister // Jessica Nirvana Ram // Kevin Risner // Lindsey Schaffer // Production Editor Colleen Flaherty Social Media Editor K.M. Crane
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Nonfiction is OPEN!
Submittable has been showing it as closed, but if you go to our page you should be able to submit without any problems. Let us know if you run into any trouble! And please send more nonfiction our way.
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Really appreciate all the manuscript submissions! We've started going through them and will do our best to get decisions out within 4 months. Our open reading period is open for 3 more weeks! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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We're aiming to publish issue 18 next week-ish
AND THEN
the mag will take a two month hiatus during which we will reconsider our model for social media, nominations, the press distribution model, finances, and the mag pub frequency.
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In one month we'll be having an open mss call! Put us on your calendars! We want to read your micros, chaps, full lengths, novellas... whatever it is you're working on!
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Poetry is open!
Poetry submissions for @VariantLit will open on February 1st
variantlit.com/submit/
Get your poems ready!
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Next month we'll be taking chapbook & full-length submissions of poetry! @TaylorByas3 & @adrianf will be making chapbook selections to top off our 2023 calendar ✨ you'll have one month to send us something! variantlit.com/manuscripts/
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In other news, the support for @TaylorByas3's chapbook Bloodwarm has been huge, and we're low on inventory. Which is just to say a third print run is happening 💕
Again, thanks for supporting Taylor & our press! We'll be having a huge sale on all our books next week! Stay tuned!
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Issue 10 is live!
Huge thank you to our contributors, our team, and all the folks who support us. We're so grateful and SO excited to send another issue out into the world.
variantlit.com/issue-ten/
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Really appreciate all the manuscript submissions! We've started going through them and will do our best to get decisions out within 4 months. Our open reading period is open for 3 more weeks! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Get those microchaps ready! We're holding a contest! @LannieStabile will choose one manuscript to receive a prize of $150 + 150 limited print run! Subs open in June! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
ALT Get those microchaps ready! We're holding a contest! @LannieStabile will choose one manuscript to receive a prize of $150 + 150 limited print run! Subs open in June! https://variantlit.submittable.com/submit
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Can't believe it's already December! We're looking at chapbook and full-length manuscripts in poetry this month :) variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Three heartbreaking poems in @JetFuelReview by Ben Kline: jetfuelreview.com/ben-kline-…
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We're still accepting poetry and prose!
We want to read your poems, stories, and micros!
Submissions open from March 1st to April 5th.
- We pay a $10 honorarium
- We reply within 2 months (if not sooner)
- We are excited to read your work!
Submit: variantlit.com/submit/
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Omg I forgot thank to our cover artist @TaylorByas3 for designing her book cover 😅😂 she's so talented!!!
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What do we mean when we say narrative?
Glad you asked.
Narrative text conveys an active experience--movement, use of bodies (literal choreography), dialogue, characters DO-ing stuff.
We get excited about stories that begin with narrative.
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We're starting the week with a #Giveaway! If you haven't got a copy of @bluejayverses latest chapbook love letters from a burning planet yet all you have to do is like this post to enter ✨ winners will be chosen tomorrow noon EST!
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Small Masthead changes: Nick Soluri & Hannah Grieco (@writesloud) join the team as poetry readers and Adrian Frandle (@adrianf) moves to Acquisitions Editor, Poetry ✨ variantlit.com/about/
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Reminder that we'll send you books to review & even help you find spaces to place them!
Also, feel free to ask about works in progress! We've likely got digital copies ready to send out too!
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Adding a quick fiction pop-up window, ONE DAY ONLY, because of a last-minute withdrawal of an accepted piece (~sigh~). Send us your most print-ready and strange work!
variantlit.submittable.com/s…
BOLDED magazines pay writers.
Also there are actually 40 mags closing for submissions this week, we just couldn’t squeeze them all on the image without causing you eye strain.
They’re all right here though: linktr.ee/chillsubs
#writingcommunity #submissioncall
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We're opening for poetry and fiction on 10/1! The next round of submissions will be for our January 2022 issue. All proceeds from this issue's subs will go to our wonderful editors. ✨
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Issue 16 is Coming Soon!
By the numbers:
328 fiction subs, 5 accepted (1.5%),
111 nonfiction subs, 3 accepted (2.7%),
477 poetry subs, 13 accepted (2.7%).
Prose (fiction, nonfiction) is open for submissions this month!
ALT Multicolored background with "Coming Soon" in bright pink, Variant Lit issue 16, and the black and white variant logo.
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What is our poetry reader, Kevin A. Risner, looking for in the queue?
"Less is more. I love short, snappy poems. Witty, cryptic, or absurd"
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Submissions for fiction & nonfiction are now open! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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We're open for poetry and art submissions for two more weeks! variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Issue Eighteen of Variant is now live! variantlit.com/issue-eightee…
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While we are open for regular subs we decided we also wanted to create a special issue to help expedite rehoming pulled pieces from Hobart. This is an open genre call that we'll be looking at this weekend. variantlit.submittable.com/s…
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Q: I thought prose and poetry were open in separate months...?
A: We changed it up. All together now.
Q: Are you still going to publish four times a year?
A: No, dropping to twice a year. Send while you can!
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