@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 We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South.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!

ok here's my dung beetle love poem

Join MJ Gomez and Qetsi’ah Joachim-Baggott for Birdsong, Wildfires, and Faith: A Poetry Reading hosted by Variant Lit. Sunday, June 22 10 a.m. EST / 3 p.m. BST. Live on Zoom. @bluejayverses.bsky.social @iamgoingtocry.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

June 7th, 11am CST - Poet Jessica Lohafer is hosting a cowriting session for pride month. Free, everyone welcome, optional prompts. Sign up :) www.eventbrite.com/e/pride-writ...

June 7th, 11am CST - Poet Jessica Lohafer is hosting a cowriting session for pride month. Free, everyone welcome, optional prompts. Sign up :) www.eventbrite.com/e/pride-writ...

Steven Espada Dawson’s (@stevenespadaw.bsky.social) LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY is a book of grief, anger, and aching love. In our newest interview, he speaks on elegy, structure, and the line between witnessing and owning a story. Read it here: variantlit.com/steven-espad...

"The exciting thing about poetry, for me, is that anything can warrant a poem. There’s no moment to small, no event too ordinary." Check out this great post from Lemon Grove Writers!

Dear Jessica—How Do I Write A Poem? lemongrovewriters.com/posts/dear-j...

Feels like a good day for an excerpt from my review of THESE STRANGE BODIES by @courtludwick.bsky.social (ELJ Editions: 2024), published in @variantlit.bsky.social's Variety Pack section earlier this year variantlit.com/knowing-and-...

Forgot to share these three new poems (from my dead mom manuscript) that just appeared in Jet Fuel Review. www.jetfuelreview.com/ben-kline-82...

Talking book publicity with Abigail Welhouse on What We Aim To Do podcast. In the full episode we talk about hiring a publicist, DIY approaches, and setting goals for publicity efforts.

Abigail Welhouse joins me to talk about writing, book publicity, life in New York City, and the creative magic of hobbies and play! Listen to the full conversation: whatweaimtodo.substack.com/p/what-abiga...

Free co-writing sprint via zoom on Saturday, May 24 · 11am - 1pm CDT. Sign up for freeeee www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-sp...

I have a poem from my forthcoming collection with @triohousepress.bsky.social in the new issue of South Dakota Review! Thanks to @artichokeheart.bsky.social for including me! A stellar issue on Day 16 of National Poetry Month, friends! Oh! & I love this poem’s little nod to Bhanu Kapil! 💙

Co-writing session this Saturday! This is a 2-hour online writing session held over Zoom—open to writers of all genres and experience levels. Bring your work-in-progress, use one of our optional prompts, or just show up and see what comes. www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-sp...

Wrote about some of my favorite poetry podcasts! lemongrovewriters.com/posts/learni...

So excited to write this April! Sign up for 30 days of poetry prompts: lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts