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...

We’re giving away 2 tickets to the Fête—our biggest event of the year! 🎟️To enter:🎟️ 1. Follow @epiphanylitjournal on IG 2. Like our latest Fête post 3. Tag a friend you’d bring That’s it! Winner announced Friday, May 23 at 12pm ET. When/Where: June 12 | 6PM | Urbane Arts Club

Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like Ashna Ali—poetry editor at Epiphany, author of The Relativity of Living Well (2024), PAIN BABY Substack creator, & MFA student at Randolph College. This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

Singer, songwriter & composer Daphne Gale brings her stirring blend of folk, jazz, and art song to the Fête stage this year. Based between NYC, LA & Berlin, her intimate, genre-blending sound is not to be missed! Join us June 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

We’re thrilled to welcome honored Fête guest: Emily Kirven, Executive Director & founder of READ 718. Emily saw firsthand how inequitable access to literacy support impacted her Brooklyn students—and in 2015, she founded READ 718 to change that. Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...

As we count down to the Fête, we’re thrilled to spotlight The Urbane Arts Club—Brooklyn’s literary gem and our Fête venue! Housed in a 1920s speakeasy, The Urbane is more than just a venue—it’s a cultural hub blending historic charm with a vibrant, community-first spirit.

Join us at this year’s Fête as we welcome poet, performer, and powerhouse @mobrowne.bsky.social. It’s sure to be an incredible night of community and celebration. We’d love to see you there. Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-... Learn more: epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

“I never told you just how often I imagined surviving a dying earth with you.” #ICYMI: Lindsay Ferguson's “Before We Knew It Was the End of the World” (Summer 2023) was selected for the CLMP Reading List for #earthday2025 🌎 Read it—and the other picks—here: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

While our team gets to work reading Breakout! Prize submissions, another opportunity is now open: submissions for our Fall/Winter 2025 print issue are live through June 15. We're big fans of fresh starts ✨ Check out our guidelines and send us your best: epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

You’re cordially invited to Epiphany’s 2025 Fête—a night of live music, lit-themed cocktails, raffles, and readings by @mobrowne.bsky.social and Fresh Voices Fellow @sidneylogan.bsky.social. Don your dancing shoes and join us at The Urbane Arts Club on 6/12. epiphanyzine.com/features/202...

As April — and #NationalPoetryMonth — draws to a close, we return to where we began: @chelsdingman.bsky.social’s poem “While Reading Plato During a Lockdown.” It felt only right to end with her voice. We’re endlessly grateful for our poets (and for you). Your words will carry us all year long.

Procrastinators, this is your moment. There’s still time—but not much! Submissions for the Breakout! Writers Prize close at 11:59 PM EST tonight. $1,000 and publication are calling. We can’t wait to read your work—submit while you still can. epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit

To close out our #NationalPoetryMonth series, we’re celebrating the brilliant Latif Askia Ba. Listen to him read “24 juillet,” from our latest issue. Thank you all for following along with us this month—we’ve loved sharing these voices with you!