Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Published today: two marvelous poems by Antonio Gamoneda, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez! bigother.com/2025/09/22/t...

Published today: a folio of poems by Hungarian poets Virág Erdős, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ottó Orbán, and Anna Terék translated by George Szirtes! bigother.com/2025/09/18/h...

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! bigother.com/2025/09/17/w... #WilliamCarlosWilliams

R.I.P., Dan Wickett, small press hero and literary citizen extraordinaire. Founder of the Emerging Writers Network, co-founder of the Dzanc Books, strong supporter of BIG OTHER, Dan supported many artists in innumerable ways. Big thanks to Dan. We will miss him.

Kudos, Arthur Sze, who was named the twenty-fifth U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress today! Such an honor for us to have published some of his wonderful poems! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Published today: "Young Tide," a marvelous short story by Can Xue translated by Karen Gernant! bigother.com/2025/09/11/y...

Published today: Jeff Bursey's astute review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau! bigother.com/2025/09/10/c... Cc: @carcanet.bsky.social

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading these Raffel fictions we published in 2020! bigother.com/2025/09/10/f...

Acquired today: Michael Martone's TABLE TALK & SECOND THOUGHTS (Cornerstone Press), which features five sections we previously published!

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Ted Morrissey! Celebrate by reading this Morrissey essay on Robert Coover's NOIR we published in 2021! bigother.com/2025/09/05/f... Cc: @tedmorrissey.bsky.social

Published today: a marvelous quartet of new poems by Lisa Russ Spaar! bigother.com/2025/09/04/f...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor David Ohle! Celebrate by reading this Ohle fiction we published in 2023! bigother.com/2025/09/02/f...

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Robert Lopez! Celebrate by reading Lopez's “However Many Sayings to Live and Die By,” which we published in 2020, and which was subsequently published in Lopez's The Best People in 2025! bigother.com/2025/08/31/f...

Stay tuned for a beguiling liminal fiction by Can Xue, which was luminously translated Karen Gernant, in BIG OTHER! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Xue

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! bigother.com/2025/08/26/j...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Marc Vincenz! Celebrate by reading this sextet of Vincenz poems we published in 2024! bigother.com/2025/08/26/f...

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Published today: a marvelous quintet of poems by Elaine Equi! bigother.com/2025/08/24/f... Cc: @elaineequi.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Annie Proulx! 90, today! bigother.com/2025/08/22/a...

Happy birthday, Michael Martone! Celebrate by reading two Martone fictions we published in 2019! They were subsequently published in The Complete Writings of Art Smith, the Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, Edited by Michael Martone (BOA Editions)! bigother.com/2025/08/22/f...

Over the 🌕 to be in @bigothermag.bsky.social interviewing @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social about his 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙢 & 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙢 Go read - learn why the new wave UK sci-fi of the 90s+00s has a twin in the ongoing boom in the PRC 🚀🐉 🫖🤝🧋 bigother.com/2025/08/19/p...

Fascinating interview about a fascinating project, with mentions of essays by Paul Kincaid (included in Colourfields) and Niall Harrison (included in All These Worlds), both available from our shop: briardenebooks.uk/shop/

Me talking about The Boom & The Boom 🥳 Many thanks to Angus for such wonderful questions!

Published today: Angus Stewart's interview with Lyu Guangzhao about Lyu's The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction! bigother.com/2025/08/19/p... Cc: @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social

Stay tuned for a superb suite of new poems by Elaine Equi in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read Equi's "Three Poems," which we published in 2024! (The link also includes links to other Equi poems we've published over the years). bigother.com/2025/07/24/f...

Published today: Helen E. Mundler-Arantes's review of Charles Holdefer’s DON'T LOOK AT ME (Sagging Meniscus Press)! bigother.com/2025/08/18/l... Cc: @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! bigother.com/2025/08/17/j...

Published today: marvelous new fiction by Chris Vaughan! bigother.com/2025/08/16/d...

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Published today: a superb quintet of poems by Tony Leuzzi! bigother.com/2025/08/09/d...

Published today: Paul Hoover's "The Memory of a Poem"! bigother.com/2025/08/08/t...

Published today: "Some Chairs at the Art Museum," a mockumentary by David M. Sheridan! bigother.com/2025/08/07/s...

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! bigother.com/2025/08/02/j... #JamesBaldwin

Published today: eerie fiction by Michel Vachey (translated by S. C. Delaney and Agnès Potier)! bigother.com/2025/08/01/t...

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

My Eco-fiction fungi-horror speculative “Tree Ears & Velvet Feet,” where a meat substitute crosses fungal-human mushroom caps of girl faces impaled on spongy, glabrous stems' haunted lollipops @bigothermag.bsky.social @johnmadera.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social bigother.com/2025/07/30/t...

Published today: marvelous new fiction by Aimee Parkison! bigother.com/2025/07/30/t... Cc: @aimeeparkison.bsky.social

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! bigother.com/2025/07/30/w...

My new fiction--a series of #flashfiction stories #LethalConversations about what happens to women in war was just published by @bigothermag.bsky.social bigother.com/2025/07/27/l... @johnmadera.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social #literaryfiction @unboundedition.bsky.social #LiteraryFiction

Published today: powerful new fiction by Aimee Parkison! bigother.com/2025/07/27/l... Cc: @aimeeparkison.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! bigother.com/2025/07/26/a... #AldousHuxley

Happy birthday, Elias Canetti! bigother.com/2025/07/25/e... #EliasCanetti

Stayed tuned for new fiction by Aimee Parkison in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read Parkison's "What Goes on Near the Water," which we published in 2019, and which was subsequently published in Parkison's SUBURBAN DEATH PROJECT (Unbound Edition Press, 2022)! bigother.com/2019/02/19/f...

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Elaine Equi! Celebrate by reading the three Equi poems we published in 2024! And then go read the Equi poems we published in 2019, 2021, and 2023! bigother.com/2025/07/24/f... Cc: @elaineequi.bsky.social

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

Happy birthday, Hart Crane! bigother.com/2025/07/21/h... #HartCrane

Published today: five wonderful poems by Bolivian poet Melissa Sauma and translated by Ariel Francisco! bigother.com/2025/07/20/f...

Happy birthday, Frantz Fanon! bigother.com/2025/07/20/f... #FrantzFanon