"...just a few months prior it had been summer, and she lay sticky and pregnant on the laminate floor, her baby cooking inside her like a dragon’s egg over coals." From "Cold Snap," a new short story by @megjnic.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/Uz2mqsr

Short story in the The Rumpus !

Check out this short story by Variant managing editor @megjnic.bsky.social in @therumpus.net ❄️ therumpus.net/2026/02/23/c...

Read a poem today! "Ley Lines" by Nick Daoust variantlit.com/ley-lines/

Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors ✨️ T. De Los Reyes / Kathy Jiang / Stefanie Lee / Arielle Kaplan / Christie M Buchovecky / Jane Zwart / Grace H. Zhou / Lalini Shanela Ranaraja / Nick Daoust / DL Pravda / Jeff Whitney / Guinotte Wise variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

@megjnic.bsky.social and the wonderful folks of Lemon Grove Writers are hosting—come for the prompts, stay for the community!

Issue 22 of @variantlit.bsky.social is out! New prose & poetry from these amazing contributors: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Meet me at the intersection of FREE! POETRY! under the the tutelage of the wonderful @ashlogophile.bsky.social

Issue 22 is officially here! We'll share highlights from these prose pieces and poems in the coming days. Check out the whole issue here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Free 2-hour writing sprints are open to writers at any stage! Join us at 11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT) on the following Saturdays: Feb 28th March 7th March 21st Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com Hosted by writers Megan Nichols, Jessica Lohafer, and Caitlin Morris.

I'm so excited about this free poetry workshop hosted by @variantlit.bsky.social ! Don't forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Recently read. I got The Island after seeing the introduction was by Madeleine Watts.

Free 2-hour writing sprints are open to writers at any stage! Join us at 11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT) on the following Saturdays: Feb 28th March 7th March 21st Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com Hosted by writers Megan Nichols, Jessica Lohafer, and Caitlin Morris.

Love that Sharon Kennedy-Noelle used her project to give youth a voice

In our latest interview, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle reflects on writing, witness, and the forms poetry can take when direct experience is unavailable. Read the interview between Sharon Kennedy-Nolle and @megjnic.bsky.social on Variant's Variety Pack blog: variantlit.com/sharon-kenne...

HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026! Image: 9SP IG page

⏳ A little over a week remains! Submit today!

@variantlit.bsky.social is still open for submissions! Please send us your short stories, poems, and flash prose by Dec 4th!

Send @variantlit.bsky.social your poetry, flash fiction, and short stories! Less than a month left!

Send your work to Variant if, like me, you're submitting poetry this weekend!

Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

This month's #Mondettes picked by @happilander.bsky.social ⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing mondettes.substack.com/p/october-2025

Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through November 30th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/submit

We can't wait to read your work! variantlit.com/submit/

When I first started editing a journal, I was baffled by the (occasional) plagiarized poem. It took me a while to understand part of what I think is going on. I believe some people may want to write, but either believe they cant, or actually can't afford to & publication looks like a way in

Grateful to have a poem in this issue!

New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜 @creamcityreview.bsky.social @triohousepress.org

We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!

Hi! For anyone here who has wanted to join a Lemon Grove Writer's zoom writing sprint - our LAST sprint of 2025 is October 18th AND we're having an open mic. Now is the time to sign up! lemongrovewriters.com/sprint

Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.

"I spent hours in my bedroom practicing my banter, explaining the nuance of each of my lines, and making sure to perfect the sullen, distant look in my eyes." New issue of my favorite writer's advice series is out! tinyurl.com/bdutdrxf

New from The Variety Pack! In conversation with Variant Editor @williamjcagle.bsky.social, @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social discusses the strange possibilities of fiction from their forthcoming collection The Museum of Future Mistakes from @boa-editions.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-museum-o...

Every Friday in October, we invite you to explore the depths of creative horror, from the existential to the bone chillingly supernatural. We’ll draw from several different texts including Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Octavia Butler, and many more.

My writing group, Lemon Grove Writers, is doing a free Halloween writing series in October. Prompts, rec reading, co-writing sessions, and an open mic! It's freeee. Sign up! lemongrovewriters.com/spooky

Write with nice strangers over zoom! Not as weird as it sounds! ​ ​Our next sprint is: Saturday, September 27th, 2025 11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com

"All my talent is in waiting for small eggs to hatch— a treasure I cannot touch. The babies are so translucent you can see their dreams. Shell-memory; soft belly full of worm. What's unraveling is my ambition for more." - "Ars Poetica" by Megan Nichols (@megjnic.bsky.social)

This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd! Considering signing up! lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

Thrilled to have a micro in @susurrusmag.bsky.social about the things we carry, and trees, of course. Thank you to @jekwriter.bsky.social and @writertammyevans.bsky.social for their feedback. www.susurrusthemagazine.com/crown-shyness

Very honored to have my poem Ars Poetica included in Issue Twelve of Susurrus. Looking forward to spending the rest of my morning reading the incredible work of the other contributors.

Susan is such a kind poet- this lifted my spirits so much. What are you reading today? I suggest Dressing the Bear, a profound collection: triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre...

Sarah Stockton ✨ from THE SCARECROW OF MY FORMER SELF (MoonPath Press) Day 1 - #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Lemon Grove Writers has collected all of our Writing Sprint prompts into a PDF and all sales made in August will be sent to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. lemongrovewriters.com/products/pro...

This August! A month of summer-movie inspired writing prompts. It's free and fun and begins August 2nd! Considering signing up! lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

Free cowriting session with prompts tomorrow, Saturday, July 12th – 11 AM Central / 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific RSVP: lemongrovewriters.kit.com/writingsprint

This is so cool! Let's go to the movies, writer friends.

“But music is not an escape to somewhere else” A gorgeous poem that holds its own musicality for grief. Love this new one by @susanlleary.bsky.social in Pedestal Magazine.

Starting August 2nd, LGW is kicking off a free, five-week writing practice inspired by classic summer films. Each Saturday, we’ll send you generative prompts based on a summer movie. Sign up for Summer at the Movies:​ ​https://lemongrovewriters.com/summer-movies

This Sunday!! Don't forget to register!

This Sunday!! Don't forget to register!