Jason Baltazar's devastating curses for you include deeply identifying with a brand, and that's just the beginning, today at Villain Era!

Claire Hamner Matturo's narrator remembers why no one cried when her uncle died, today at Villain Era! (CW:CSA)

Erik Fuhrer explores family trauma through the lens of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, today at Villain Era!

#FF It’s Video Games Day 🎮. To celebrate, give some ❤️ & a follow to these publications in the lit community that begin with “V” & “G”! @vestalreview.bsky.social @galleon-books.bsky.social @villaineralit.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @viridinelit.bsky.social @garlicpresslit.bsky.social

⌂⏿⬫❍✷✆Two poems today at @villaineralit.bsky.social many thanks to @charlesjensen.bsky.social + co for giving them a good home ♡:) villaineralit.com/2025/09/12/t...

Jeremiah Moriarty wonders if it’s sympathy or smoke he’s tasting here, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪 villaineralit.com/2025/09/12/t...

My poem is up @villaineralit.bsky.social ! #poetry

Love this latest offering at @villaineralit.bsky.social from @2heartcore4u.bsky.social

This poem is WOW and so so relevant to the moment/life.

Dawn Levitt reveals everyone knows a woman who's been a victim, but nobody knows a man held to account, today at Villain Era!

Killer aesthetic, fast response, AND they accepted all four (4!!) of my poems?? Doesn’t get any better than this. 🤩 So grateful to the EIC of @villaineralit.bsky.social - check them out! 🔪 🩸 😈 🔥

Emily Dressler explains her plan to be a reverse hostage negotiator, today at Villain Era!

Dug into submissions today for the first time in a few weeks. Wow—stellar stuff there! Response time is going to be a little slower until mid-month, so sorry-ish to those who are waiting for replies.

Another wonder in my inbox thanks to Jo Angela Edwins and @villaineralit.bsky.social

Jo Angela Edwins notes how thin is the string the righteous cling to—and why it's autocorrect's fault—today at Villain Era!

Amazing, moving set of four #poems by Teri Vela in @villaineralit.bsky.social: shorturl.at/tMJvS #poetry #formalpoetry #writing #litmags #literature

Delighted to be a Villain!

Laura Bandy is rummaging the cupboards for chocolate and grease, today at Villain Era!

"I’m embarrassed to say // how quick am I to deny my reality for another" Our assistant poetry editor @terivela.bsky.social published four poems in @villaineralit.bsky.social! You can read them all right here: buff.ly/2cG4hpH

"The more you speak with the dead, the lonelier it gets." @gothicquill.bsky.social in @villaineralit.bsky.social

Love this so much!

Julia Madsen's obsession with UNSOLVED MYSTERIES has roots in her family's own unsolved mystery, today at Villain Era!

Teri Vela wonders how many chambers the nautilus and the AR-15 have, today at Villain Era!

Rita Maria Martinez'z poem takes inspiration from Eve Teschmacher, Lux Luthor's movie secretary, today at Villain Era!

In Ruth Williams's poem, the men are speaking a language through the application of their hands, today at Villain Era!

“In my view, the only way you should enter medical school is as a cadaver.”

I'm into this essay by Eliot Hagyard just out in @villaineralit.bsky.social: villaineralit.com/2025/08/12/l...

Elliott Hagyard HAD said something to your TA, but only because he hates you--today at Villain Era!

Excited to have three poems from my manuscript, A Tender Wilderness, in @villaineralit.bsky.social today. I wrote these in 2021 when I was reckoning with the various “villains” I’d cast in my life, including myself. Thanks for giving these a home, @charlesjensen.bsky.social 🖤🔪

J River Helms's poems live in a house in which every room is a heartbreak, today at Villain Era!

New poem at @villaineralit.bsky.social . . . "This was, after all, the house in which / Walter B. Gibson lived when he invented the Shadow" villaineralit.com/2025/08/05/f...

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Aaron Belz thinks you're looking at him like had eaten your last radish, today at Villain Era!

Scott Kenimond wonders if touch will overwrite memory, today at Villain Era!

Casey Renee Kiser has a one maniac policy, and you're not it--today at Villain Era!

Don't miss Rebecca Maker's magnificent poems at @villaineralit.bsky.social Wow, Rebecca!

Rebecca Maker wonders if she can ever forgive them for what they didn't say, today at Villain Era!

Thanks to @villaineralit.bsky.social for the nomination ❤️

Thrilled to announce our Best of the Net nominations! 🖤🔪 Let villainy prevail

Gigi Ramos will not accept the inconvenience NOR the free underarm hair removal session, today at Villain Era!

Reviewing submissions tomorrow for Sept/Oct pub dates!

3 new poems up at @villaineralit.

Dare Williams hears you calling for more, but won't let you have it, today at Villain Era!

Amy Thatcher wants to tell you a story about blood, today at Villain Era!

Thank you @charlesjensen.bsky.social and @villaineralit.bsky.social for featuring my sestina villaineralit.com/2025/07/08/d... #poetry #poesie #sestina #traditionalforms #leafblower #leafblowers #hate #odio #détester #noisepollution #Contaminaciónacústica

Beth Wolfe has thrown your opinion of her to the ravens, and what they did with it we can't even talk about, today at Villain Era!

Omar Bárcena laments the peace of the rake and demands Death to the Leafblower, today at Villain Era!

HUGE thanks to @villaineralit.bsky.social‬ and ‪@charlesjensen.bsky.social‬ for taking such care with my work and giving Quint the happy ending he deserves.

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, Tracy Royce has erased a page of JAWS and...now you'll need a Silkwood shower, today at Villain Era!