Our 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors are Emma Catherine Perry (poetry) and Daniel Peña (fiction). Click through to read about them!

Proud to include @theonion.com alongside other distinguished literary publications in our office

Here's a review of Patrick Nathan's novel THE FUTURE WAS COLOR, out now in paperback from Counterpoint Press, by assistant editor Miklos Mattyasovszky. "[A] tender triumph of a novel, which had wrapped me in its anxious arms from the very first line."

It is a new semester and we have acquired this beautiful vault boy mug for our lego bouquet

Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!

We've got a new interview today from outgoing poetry editor Michael Prior, who talks with poet Michael Nienow about his new collection, IF NOTHING, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. "As the past cannot be changed, I find the resistance of neat endings hopeful."

COWBOY PARK, the new poetry collection from our contributor Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, just went into a second printing...check it out!

I recently had an MRI during a week when my preschooler was listening to La Bamba on repeat. I'm so grateful to have a poem about that experience in the current issue of @epochliterary.com!

Received my contributor copy of @epochliterary.com latest issue with my story called Untouchables. Thanks to @jrobertlennon.com and other staff! www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...

We've got a new blog piece from our correspondent KP Vogel, who attended a conference of Fernando Pessoa Scholars last year. "If Pessoa’s author was God, that author might merely be the creation of yet another Author, farther removed, and so on. Pessoas all the way up, so to speak."

People are asking about the free weekend. There is indeed one this month, just keep checking back every Saturday!

Thanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

“Anything can be born.” Martha Zweig #poetry @epochliterary.com

We are open for subs!

Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive

How can you not read a poem by a guy named Ed Skoog?

The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!

Coming soon

Today on the blog, assistant editor Imogen Osborne interviews poet Tom Bailey, at the publication of his new pamphlet, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR FEED THE HORSES (the title poem appeared in EPOCH 70.1). "I think there's a poetry to misnaming things and being wrong."

Hey #AWP25 attendees, we will be at bookfair today, table T832! Come check out the new issue, buy a tote, and meet the editors.

Hey #AWP25 attendees, EPOCH will be at table T832 at bookfair! We've got ten dollar magazines and ten dollar totes. Come say hello, especially if you're one of our contributors...we would love to meet you.

Today on the blog, assistant fiction editor Miklos Mattyasovszky interviews Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE. "Much of what I value in good writing comes down to the messiness of another mind at work."

My contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊

"The Spider's Share," an essay in @epochliterary.com (only the first page shown here) www.epochliterary.com/shop/p/volum...

We're pleased to announce that the past TWENTY YEARS of EPOCH are is available in the form of high-quality PDF downloads, $7 for the new, larger format; $5 for the old, slimmer ones. www.epochliterary.com/archive

I'm the translator of Jiawei's poem in this issue🎈🎈🎈Like this cover very much.

Excited to have a story in the new issue of Epoch! Thanks to the staff for a great experience and @jrobertlennon.com for thoughtful edits.

Thrilled to be included in this volume of Epoch alongside some truly spectacular voices!

THRILLED to have a little poem (the final poem!) in the latest issue of @epochliterary.com. It's about, uh, the joys of workshop:

i have 6 very short stories in this new issue. here are 2 of them: for the Cheers fans and frogs fans.

Just got my copies in the mail. Thank you again to @epochliterary.com and @cornellupress.bsky.social for choosing my painting, "This Is Us When We Dream," on the cover of the current issue. Epoch has been in circulation since 1947. It's quite the honor to be part of their long history. Thanks Epoch!

It feels very good to see my poem about composer Fanny Hensel in such very good company!

Tracy Hill’s “Crater” ☄️ 💜 is a must-read! @russianumbrella.bsky.social

The recent essay I'd love to have people read is in @epochliterary.com, which is a print journal, so I can't post it here. But @doublebackreview.bsky.social just reprinted an early essay of mine here: doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...

I have an essay among very good company in the new issue of EPOCH.

there’s so much hyperbole online but also: this may be the greatest issue of a literary journal of all time*

Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com

Today we have a new interview with George Saunders, by assistant editor Otis Fuqua! www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...

We're publishing some sneak previews from the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social print issue 25 (pre-order available now). Here's the Dear Reader letter, about how we truly did not know a single thing when we started, but somehow we're still here 20 years later. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/issue-2...

No worries, @epochliterary.com! We're 52; we get it.

Good morning! We have a new post up on the blog...a review of Shangyang Fang's BURYING THE MOUNTAIN, in which poet and Assistant Editor Derek Chan finds "a deeply metaphysical and meditative ethos."

if these butchered blurbs didn't sell you, you can also read 3 essays from the book in the new issue of @epochliterary.com www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

This poem is very close to my heart and I’m thrilled to have it featured in this issue of EPOCH! Grateful to be part of such an incredible journal.

Finally, this issue's featured essay is actually three short essays, from @tmcallister.bsky.social's forthcoming collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

We've also got a new story from Etgar Keret, translated from the hebrew by Jessica Cohen: "The Hallway" www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...

We've added the TOC and cover of 72.1 to the site, along with three sneak previews of the issue! First, a new poem by Elaine Liu, "Roche Limit" www.epochliterary.com/featuredpoetry

3 essays from this book are in the new issue of @epochliterary.com. You can read them here (and we'll open for book pre-orders next week! ) www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay

Tomorrow's the last day to submit electronically! You can snail mail anytime, but be aware we only read Feb-Mar and Sept-Oct.