It's that time again! We love Chill Subs, so go tell Chill Subs how much you love us! (www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag...)

Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!

Today's Featured Poem: "Frances Glessner Lee as the First True Crime Girlie: An Abecedarian" by Michaela Mayer published in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/frances...

Best of the Net Noms are here! Go read them if you haven't already. Or maybe read them again!

buff.ly/1P4fsHK These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)

“Many of us feel paralyzed by despair, waking to images of emaciated Palestinian children on our phone screens each morning, but there are still things we can do to help.”

"We asked librarians and staff at Brooklyn Public Library to write stories about their connections to these books, and describe why they think we should all be reading them now."

Looking at the sky where we are, you'd never know it's late July. Oh well, let's read.

A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.”

If YOU were in charge of the English language for a day, what is one thing you would absolutely change?

Is this a brilliant week or a bullshit one?

"Look—the Capitol! Let's pay it a visit!" Superman puts the scare into a lobbyist who's paid off a senator for his vote, Action Comics #1, 1938.

This issue's been out for a couple of days, but we're not even gonna lie, y'all, this post is a bit late because of well, everything. So our only question is: how are you caring for yourself? Any kind of joy you find, take it, friend. If that's reading some KTQ? Hey, we love that, and we love you!

Do you love poetry or is nonfic more your jam? Do you have eclectic taste? Are you into history-- the weird, secret, but most importantly, true kind? Come read with us!

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

Here to remind you to care for yourself. Walk through flowers. Have an iced coffee. Read a poem. Breathe. (Featured image: "The Shepherd Woman." Ehsan Amed Mehedi. Kitchen Table Quarterly xxv.iii, Spring 2025.)

More daylight hours just means more time to read our Spring issue, right? Is that how that works? No? Oh well, read it anyway!

This is going to be a blow to some litmags.

The lit world is having another one of its extinction level events with the loss of funding for so many lit mags and orgs but that's exactly why it's the right time to become a writer! Start screaming with us!

It's here! It's here! (www.kitchentablequarterly.org)

Five days until our new issue drops AND five days until submissions close. There's all kinds of stuff going on over here!

We're staying open until April 9th, y'all! Why? Because we want to. That's why!

Find us at Booth 948 at #awp25! Our E-i-C @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social will be there most of the time, and we'll have book signings with many delightful contributors and staff!

We're ready for another great day at the #AWP25 bookfair! Stop by and say hello to Publisher Nicola Mason and Assistant Editor Hussain Ahmed. Booth 307! 🎉🎉🎉

BOOTH T459!! We have free CAT BOOKMARKS!!! #awp25 @latifaayad.com

Are you at #AWP? So are we! Find us and Santa Monica Review at Table 1137 tomorrow! We’ve got copies of recent issues, and totes and T-shirts and bookmarks. Get a subscription if you like. And have a Pulparindo!

Are you strolling the book fair at AWP now? Come see us at Table T 316!

Hello #AWP! We're here at table 215, *and* we're back open for submissions! Consciousness-forward, language-driven, risk-adept. Send us writing beyond convention. Guidelines: lespritliteraryreview.org/submission-g... #modernism #Essays #bookreviews #litmag #shortstories #creativewriting

We're not able to be at AWP this year (sad), but we'll be scrolling through all of your posts and living vicariously through you.

"Though most major league baseball teams at the time refused to sign Jackie Robinson because [THEY JUST DIDN’T LIKE THE CUT OF HIS JIB], Robinson finally became the first [PERSON NAMED JACKIE ROBINSON] to play Major League Baseball in 1947."

Newsletters to help demystify the publishing industry for you.

The Irish famine of the 1840s reminds us that the Great Hunger was shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendent: the poor are the authors of their own misery, and the market must be obeyed at all costs.

“A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift A man caused a hullabaloo By posting this practical view: Economics call for Irish babes of the poor To be served to the rich as ragout.

If you are going to read one thing this weekend, let it be this. Butler is a paramount philosopher of our time. | This Is Wrong; Judith Butler on Executive Order 14168 | www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thank you, @bittersouth.bsky.social . Some great #WomensHistoryMonth words going on here. shorturl.at/4eN4O

“We have two choices: to abandon hope and help ensure that the worst will happen; or to make use of the opportunities that exist and perhaps contribute to a better world. It is not a very difficult choice.” —Noam Chomsky

@sofioksanen.com examines Russia’s history of imperialist aggression, its war on Ukraine, and the importance of preserving personal and collective memory.

Attn: Submissions are officially open!

"Most editors have second jobs, family lives, and their own creative projects. Also, many are busy preparing for the end-times by burying bags of rice in the fields, scavenging for copper, or selling their bodies for ammunition."

Digging into the archive today to bring you this piece from the very first issue of KTQ. Go and read the whole thing at kitchentablequarterly.org. And while you're there, check out our conversation with it's brilliant writer, Shefali Banerji!

This week, President Trump falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war against Russia, ordered federal agencies created by Congress to answer directly to him, and made himself the leader of a cultural institution. Our reporters sit down on “The Daily” to discuss how Trump is rewriting history.

“For the time being, Ukraine and the rest of Europe will be consulted in the way the residents of a village are consulted before it gets demolished to make way for a new airport.” James Meek spot on in Trump’s approach for the latest @londonreview.bsky.social blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com #trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter

We've been notified that Submittable is experiencing a glitch where decline letters are not being sent to submitters. Instead, submissions are being declined without notification. We deeply apologize for this issue and want to assure you that any nonresponse is not intentional! We love you!

We couldn't have said it better ourselves 👏

Catching your eye with this incredible mixed media collage by Darlene R. Taylor (darlenertaylor.com) to remind you that our winter issue is out NOW and you can read it at kitchentablequarterly.org. So... go do that!