Book your free ticket for the online book launch of my poetry collection Self-Portrait as a Banana, 10 October. All welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Applications are open for @onestorymag.bsky.social's Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship! This is a year-long educational fellowship for early career writers whose work speaks to issues and experiences related to inhabiting bodies of difference. one-story.com/learn/fellow...

Come to the lovely Cannon Beach Library this Saturday for their first annual Local Author Festival and Fall Fundraiser. I'll be there, wheelin' and dealin'.

I'll be playing my banjo mouth! 🤣

🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open. No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag

Saturday writing prompt! 1. Go to your bookshelf and pull the first red book you see 2. Turn to page 140 3. Choose a line of dialogue from the page and use it as the first line of a flash piece

Tonight! I will be reading poems about mental health to celebrate the release of @tommywyattblake.bsky.social's MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION from @the-ethelzine.bsky.social

We are seeking cover art for our winter issue! Send us up to 8 pieces to consider. It’s free to submit. Payment is one contributor copy and a small honorarium. Full details: tinyurl.com/shocoverart

We're finishing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with a double accomplishment 🎉 Contributors @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @jasonbcrawford.bsky.social will be discussing friendship and poetry with @notebookscltv.bsky.social Sept. 16th! 🙌 Get your free tickets to this virtual event here: buff.ly/tAs68NP

The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies. For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH

from "Atonal Apocalypse: On MILK SICKNESS by David Greenspan" (@querenciapress.bsky.social: 2025), in which I compare experimental prose to atonal music published in @brokenantlermag.bsky.social's The Marrow earlier this year

Next up at Poetry Night at Sitwell's in Cincy: Poets @benkline.bsky.social & Michael Peterson take the mic! Come out to Sitwell's Coffee House on October 7th at 7:00 p.m. and bring a poem to share during the open mic.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

We're pleased to announce that we are now open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest! Submit up to three poems for free through September 14th for a chance to win $200 and 20 copies of your letterpress-printed broadside! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

Today’s poem is selected by Todd Dillard as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Cloudless Snowfall” appeared in Walking to Martha's Vineyard by Franz Wright, published by Knopf, 2003. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Do you have your copy of @taylorbyas.bsky.social's newest collection, Resting Bitch Face, yet? You still have time before our September In Conversation! Find registration info here: thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-con...

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that subs are open for... short stories flash micros creative nonfiction until we reach our monthly cap. thank u ! xraylitmag.com/submissions/

I hope this poem is irrelevant one day, and soon. / published 2023 @variantlit.bsky.social

Day 29 of the #sealeychallenge August 29th- Ragnarok at the Father-Daughter Dance, Todd Dillard Not only is this @variantlit.bsky.social collection beautiful, but the poems inside have humor and heft in a way that many poets strive for but don’t quite reach @toddedillard.bsky.social

We will be open to submissions from September 1st through September 7th this year! Submission info and guidelines are on the "about page" of our website: dorothyproject.com/about/

was tagged in a post where someone shared that they think about this poem I published in UCityReview daily, so here :)

Recessional: The Invoice Adrian Dallas Frandle @adrianf.bsky.social 31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 22/31

I'm excited to be supporting the release of @tommywyattblake.bsky.social 's MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION at this reading in a few weeks! I'll be reading poems on mental health, institutionalization, and intra-self experience

“Poor Historian” by @rriekki.bsky.social haunts long after the read.

Day 18: “Chewing Gum” by Max Gillette in @variantlit.bsky.social. I continue to gravitate towards pieces with a repetitive, almost cyclical, structure! variantlit.com/chewing-gum/

Check out this beautiful poem, Ars Poetica, by managing editor @megjnic.bsky.social 🌙

Pre-order Ashley Cline's loading a new continent and see why Gaia Rajan says, "Here is a poet who understands that to witness truly means to listen for the spaces between words". www.glass-poetry.com

Subs for the Sept edition close in 5 days, so this is excellent timing

📣📣📣 phoebe’s submissions are open now for the winter edition, 55.1! Find the Submittable link in our bio!

Day 4 of the #sealeychallenge August 4th- Ragnarok at the Father Daughter Dance, Todd Dillard with @variantlit.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social always knows how to bring the gut punch ending

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...

Love a @taylorbyas.bsky.social poem!!!! poets.org/poem/i-begin... I begin the day thinking by Taylor Byas - Poems | Academy of American Poets

Sealey starts Friday! grab great poetry collections at our website! poetry chapbooks are only $10 for a limited time: buff.ly/9GbHZii

if you're looking for a quick and strange read for the Sealey Challenge, please consider my chapbook "Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance" !!!!! variantlit.com/product/td/

New remote classes starting this week with David Ryan: Studies in Shadow Form (starts tomorrow, Thursday, 7/24) and Irrealism: Surrealism and the Lyric Essay (starts Sunday, 7/27). His classes are so inspiring and generative! More info and signup here: curiovox.com/185-2/

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

"Who can blame him for assuming he was you?" I love this poem by @erinmurphy.bsky.social so much! In @variantlit.bsky.social 💙💙💙

"Second Person" by @erinmurphy.bsky.social "I once read a poem about desire to a man who desired me. Who can blame him for assuming he was you?" Read the full poem from issue 21 on our site! variantlit.com/second-person/

"my love, and the easel, sticky smell of oil, your lips pursed as you whistle between strokes. I’m just gonna add some shine." Daily reads" Laurel Benjamin in @variantlit.bsky.social ❤️

@variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social Her story’s sunlit-subtle menace will have you looking over your shoulder in a literary way!

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Celebrate Halloween early with Ploughshares! Join us at 6pm on July 16th at Trident Booksellers in Boston, MA, for the launch of our sinister Summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Victor LaValle and filled with werewolves, monsters, and more. Register here: https://pshr.us/sinistersummerlaunch

It’s been two years since we released our revival issue, and we’re excited to share our summer issue, which features 67 poems by 48 poets! Now shipping: shopoetryjournal.com/product/sho-...

Read the poem "Woman Posing as Bell Pepper" by Laurel Benjamin from issue 21 variantlit.com/woman-posing...

My first book will be out May 2026 🖤

Have you read our newest issue yet?!?

A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.

What an honor! Thanks @variantlit.bsky.social for seeing something in this story!

"I’m not depressed though; I’m lovesick, she tells the girl putting on orange lipstick in the mirror. She presses her glossy lips together over a folded white napkin...there’s a perfect print of two coral lips—a Rorschach test: a butterfly. a boy." Daily reads: Laci Mosier in @variantlit.bsky.social

Congratulations to the Variant writers on the Wigleaf Top 50 2025 Longlist! @danbillyc.bsky.social "Kilter" (Spring 2024) @courtludwick.bsky.social "Quarter" (Spring 2024) @emilyrinkema.bsky.social "The Interview" (Fall 2024) @sarahroth.bsky.social "Postnatural" (Winter 2024)