We were honored to publish two poems by the late icon of LGBT literature Edmund White in our latest issue of Epiphany. They're unlocked and can be read at the link below. www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/two...

Issue 35 FW25 of @epiphanylit.bsky.social is out! Stories by Joanna Hershon and John Weir and 2 new poems by Edmund White. www.epiphanymagazine.org/store/p/issu...

Happy holidays from the Epiphany community!

Because I was brown they cocked their thumbs aimed pasty forefingers at me while they shouted Take that, Geronimo! Although they were white they had a herd of their own @jmfletcher15.bsky.social www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/cow...

Looking forward to celebrating with you all tonight at Von Bar! Featuring readings by @joannahershon.bsky.social, Wah-Ming Chang, Edidong Uzoma Essien, and @jweirdo.bsky.social.

After nearly 25 years, it was time for an Epiphany refresh! Explore our new website at epiphanymagazine.org. While our mission remains the same—championing boundary-pushing writers at all stages of their careers—the new site opens up new ways to discover the work we feature.

Early access from our upcoming issue (out December 16!): Shovel People, @nastjagraf.bsky.social's stirring essay on complacency and moral dissent, in the USSR, Russia, the US, and everywhere. Check it out below. epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

As we close out 2025, we're working toward a $20,000 fundraising goal to continue championing vital voices in 2026 and beyond. Your support helps us pay writers, fund fellowships and prizes, and keep literature accessible to readers everywhere. Give today: weblink.donorperfect.com/EpiphanyMaga...

Congratulations to Ruella Che! Her essay from Issue 33 "Nihao in Afrotopia" was listed as a notable mention in Best American Essays. We've unlocked the piece, and you can read it at the link below epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Can’t wait to share the beautiful new issue! And can’t wait to read your wonderful work! Subs close Dec 15th epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Issue 35 cover art reveal! "Solitude" by digital collage artist Evans Akanyijuka. The issue will be available for purchase next week.

"Poets are often drawn to the genre because they can cloak their personal struggles with metaphor and allusion and any other veil of the trade they can unpack." @tsvoboda.bsky.social interviewed by @christalei.bsky.social on her new book, Hitler & My Mother-in-Law epiphanyzine.com/features/ter...

Thank you New York State Council on the Arts for your support of Epiphany. This grant allows us to keep cultivating (and paying!) writers across genres, countries, and generations.

Epiphany is hiring a Digital Marketing Manager + Media Strategist! To learn more and to apply, click here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Announcing our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees! You can read Ananya and Mazi's stories in Issue 35: Desire & Dread epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany.... The rest of our noms will feature in our upcoming issue, out in December!

Announcing our 2025 Best of the Net nominees! You can read all the pieces on our website epiphanyzine.com

I got to interview author Terese Svoboda about her new memoir, Hitler and My Mother in Law, for @epiphanylit.bsky.social! epiphanyzine.com/features/ter... I love interviews :') I want to do more of them!

Subs are now open for our next issue. Send us your best work, now through December 15! epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

I can’t wait to read your poems! Submissions open tomorrow ✨

Submissions for issue 36 open in three days, and we are delighted to announce that the poetry for this issue will be edited by esteemed poet @camillerankine.bsky.social. So poets, send us your best!

closing on Nov 1!

Applications are OPEN for our 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship! FV supports one emerging writers of color who do not have an advanced writing degree. Winner receives: - $2000 & publication - A year-long editorial fellowship at Epiphany Submit below. Apps close 11/1! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

From 1968, Georgia O'Keeffe by Arnold Newman.

We are having a fall reading and you're invited! Please join us on Thursday, October 16th, 8pm at Liz's Book Bar (315 Smith Street, Brooklyn) featuring Emily Skillings, Ananya Pandya, June Glass, and Alice Liang

An online exclusive from our latest issue: Waiting Ghazal by @asaldrake.bsky.social. Click the link below to hear the poet read her work! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Breakout! Prize are Julia Oschwald Tilton in prose, and Alice Liang in poetry! Thank you to this year’s prize judges: Hilary Leichter (prose) and Victoria Chang (poetry)! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Representing @epiphanylit.bsky.social at the One Story Writers' Conference in NYC. Honored to be quoted on their Instagram! Congrats to @onestorymag.bsky.social for organizing an excellent event.

Congratulations to Helen Benedict whose 2024 novel The Good Deed is a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize! Our 2024 interview with Helen is linked below. epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

We're proud to announce that former Epiphany contributor Cora Lewis has published Information Age with Joyland! In honor of her first book, we are re-posting "Fluff Piece," which was published with us back in 2020. epiphanyzine.com/features/flu...

may 31st, last day of short story month: "shit plate," by....me! epiphanyzine.com/features/202... originally pub'd in @epiphanylit.bsky.social & soon to appear in my forthcoming debut book. it's about syracuse + the early 2000s + dead malls + becoming aware of class differences when you're a kid.

Thank you to Ashna Ali, Heather Gluck, and the entire editorial team at @epiphanylit.bsky.social for their care and dedication in the production process, and for featuring “Bolaji Badejo” in their Spring Summer 2025 issue, Desire & Dread! 🙏🏽😍🥹👽

BIG EXCITING NEWS in the lit mag world! Contributor @saralippmann.bsky.socia is now the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of @epiphanylit.bsky.social‬!

!!! All hail @saralippmann.bsky.social!

#ICYMI: Our Spring/Summer 2025 (Issue 34) is now available in print! Featuring stunning cover art by Tschiegg and work that explores the full spectrum of desire and dread. Our last issue sold out—grab your copy while you can: epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany...

Please join us in welcoming Sara Lippmann as Epiphany’s new Editor-in-Chief! A longtime teacher, editor, writer, and literary co-conspirator, Sara shares our passion for collective work and championing bold, original voices. As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”

We’re still riding the high from this year’s Fête! Endless thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, or cheered us on from afar—we raised a record-breaking amount that will help keep us going strong into next year. We truly couldn’t do it without you 💛

LASER by Jackie Sabbagh “The technician named Jessica tucks away her honey-mustard hair and says Let’s party" Check out a new poem by Jackie Sabbagh featuring gender-"affirming" medicine and a semi-sadistic technician named Jessica, at the link in our bio epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Big congratulations to Epiphany contributor Kami Enzie (@yungwerther.bsky.social), named a finalist for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship! We're thrilled to celebrate this recognition. Read his poem from our pages here: epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Submissions for Epiphany’s Fall/Winter 2025 print issue close TONIGHT at 11:59PM (ET)! There’s still time to send us your work—don’t miss your chance to be part of our next issue. Submit here: epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

Why do we fête? To celebrate artists like Lucille Whittier—assistant managing editor at Epiphany, lover of survival stories and warm drinks, with work published in Love & Squalor and The Nowhere Girl Collective. This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social—Epiphany editor, writer of fiction and drama, visual storyteller, and NYU Tisch grad whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Carolina Quarterly, and Rolling Stone. Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

Why do we fête? To celebrate and support emerging talents like Lexi Byers—Epiphany editorial intern, reader, and freelance editor with dual degrees in English & Creative Writing. Her work is forthcoming in Bridge’s Fall 2025 issue. Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @sidneylogan.bsky.social—Epiphany’s 2025 Fresh Voices Fellow, 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, short story writer (Bodega, Minerva Rising), and debut novelist in the making. Support writers like Sidney: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

✨ Cover reveal time ✨ Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue is almost here—and a limited supply will be available at the Fête! Our last issue sold out, so don’t sleep on this one. 🎉 Starting today: Get 20% off Fête tickets with code PARTY Come celebrate: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

Fête season means spotlighting the brilliant folks behind the magic—like photographer and storyteller Daniel Schwartz, whose lens has captured Cosmo, Forbes, Tasting Table, and more. Join us June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

To the generous drink sponsors fueling our upcoming Fête: Litchfield Distillery, Curious Elixirs, Fort Hamilton Distillery, Niteglow, and Smith & Vine—we raise a glass to you. See you June 12. Grab your ticket and join in the revelry! www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

NEW FLASH by Jody Callahan “The nuns who raised me said I was born ugly and that it’s best not to hide from the truth. That may be so, but it doesn’t mandate I watch myself chew. I stay away from the seating against the long mirror on the wall.” epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

Meet Michele Lent Hirsch: writer of poetry and prose, author of Invisible (2018), contributing editor at Epiphany, and thoughtful teacher of craft at places like the 92nd Street Y. She’s part of what makes Epiphany possible. Your ticket supports her and others: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

In the lead-up to our annual Fête, we’ve been celebrating with a stacked newsletter series: ✨Q&As w/ our featured guests, performer & photographer ✨A brand-new series: Hot Takes from the Slush Pile—interviews w/ the Epiphany team Sign up: epiphanyzine.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

NEW POEM by Maria Gray “The stars have no proof of life but smolder regardless, maggots feasting on the sky’s vast corpse, and like them you were science before you were fiction.” epiphanyzine.com/features/202...