Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO

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

💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡 Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025! We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!

You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.

petrichor is open for another 2 weeks for general submissions and microwork for Pebbles vol. 6.

Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:

Did your chapbook submission turn into a pumpkin at midnight? We’ve got you! 🎃🫶 Take the week and send your manuscript by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov. 9th. We can’t wait to read it!

Submissions are now open for our annual poetry manuscript contests! We can’t wait to read yours. 💜💛💜💛 Enter here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit

Keep sending us your poems and prose! We'd love to see more weird stuff in the poetry queue. If you're not sure it makes sense, but couldn't imagine it any other way, our submissions are open! variantlit.com/submit/

What do you need? You need to know about this amazing @notatawp.bsky.social reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social next month! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live! www.ettereview.com/fall2025/ Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by: Laura Cronk @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @suzyeynon.bsky.social @rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social @mattleibel.bsky.social Emma Raimondo

Check out this forthcoming book from recent Variant contributor @pahoehoe.bsky.social!

Free Submit Day for our TOYS Issue is November 1st! The portal will open at 9 AM CST and will close automatically when we reach our cap. Link: ironhorse.submittable.com/submit/8756a...

Want a submissions secret? 🤫 We get way fewer short-short and micro submissions than flash, so if you want to increase your chances, why not give one of those a try? Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/

A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨

love love love this goodreads review of my chapbook :)

Hey are you busy today? (Don't worry, this isn't a creepy vague text received on a Sunday morning, just a reminder that we're open in all categories!) variantlit.com/submit/

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

Hey past contributors to @variantlit.bsky.social! If you have good news (a recent publication, an upcoming book, a reading), tag or email us. We want to know about it!

Reminder that our books are available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social! It Was Never Supposed To Be by @benkline.bsky.social Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance by @toddedillard.bsky.social love letters from a burning planet by @bluejayverses.bsky.social & more asterismbooks.com/publisher/va...

One of the best parts of my job is that I get to help run this awesome literary prize. Here are the finalists for the 2025 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature: lithub.com/heres-the-sh...

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

For real! Send your work to Variant!

It’s that time of year again!

Your work will be in good hands here:

I love Variant Lit. Send them your beautiful words!

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

Looking forward to reading your poems!

Submissions for poetry and prose open tomorrow!

Grateful to have a poem in this issue!

Submissions are still open for the 25th Annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize! 🎯 Prize Details: - Winning manuscript published by BOA Editions in Spring 2027 - $1,000 honorarium

We're a little behind on submissions and issue 4, but we're getting there slowly! Still open for subs all year round! And we have copies of Issues 2 and 3 for sale! Visit www.postcardlit.com for more.

Up now at Vagabond City Lit is my review of FREE BLEEDING (dogleech books: 2025) by @lrbpoetry.bsky.social, a process-based manuscript that explores embodied states, in the stylistic tradition of lucille clifton vagabondcitylit.com/2025/07/21/i...

New review up at @variantlit.bsky.social! On OUR HUMAN SHORES by @burrowtongue.bsky.social (@blackoceanbooks.bsky.social), a "sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems" which "offers hope in ... human agency, despite the waves of damage now impacting our shared material realities."

Subs open soon!!!

Are you up for some "dirty cosmic realism"? My debut novel, IN THE DESERT is coming your way 3-3-2026 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Many thanks to Noel!

The Single Life by Jeremy Radin from Variant Lit Issue 12

🚨🚨 By extremely popular demand, The Sarabande Chapbook Prize is back! During the month of October, we're reading your poetry and hybrid chapbook submissions. One winner selected by the editors will be awarded publication, $1000, and a standard royalty contract. Details and past winners in bio!

Meet Tori Walters, Managing Editor of Flash Prose and Micros! "I am looking for work that dives deeper, goes a shade more vulnerable—and does so in a way that feels fully realized within the constraint of flash prose."

Doing a thing/thingee/shanté later this week!

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

Meet Suzy Eynon, Managing Editor of Long Form Fiction! @suzyeynon.bsky.social She's the author of the novella Terrestrial (Malarkey Books, 2026) and the prose chapbooks Being Seen (Ethel) and Commuting (Ghost City Press Summer Series).

So excited and honored to be nominated by @variantlit.bsky.social! 🩷🩷🩷

Announcing our Best of the Net nominations! Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament” Erica Dawson — “On Craft” griffin epstein — “well-adjusted” Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”

Against this future, we tailor a bespoke love, nooks sewn in calamity.” D.W. Baker (@lowermelody.bsky.social) reviews Our Human Shores by Josh Fomon (Black Ocean, 2025), a lyrical meditation on damage, residuum, and reclamation. Read the full review: tinylink.net/6Fcdn

huge thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for nominating this poem, "air," co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social as part of a series, for the Pushcart prize. 🌬 genrepunkmag.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

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

What’s he looking for in a submission? “I love a poem that swings open like a pop-up card.” Get your packets ready, submissions open later this month!