Gabe Montesanti recommends books by Dean Atta, Monique Jenkinson, Amrou Al-Kadhi and other drag performers who haven’t graced RuPaul’s runway.

Zendaya holding copies of 'DUNE: MESSIAH' and 'THE ODYSSEY' at Rakestraw Books. #Zendaya #DuneMessiah #TheOdyssey

It's spring and we're blossoming.

Today we're grateful for libraries 📚️ They provide more than just books, you know! You can get movies, music, classes, community help, & more! It all depends on your library ☺️ What are your favorite library services?

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Nothing like great art!

Fund the public libraries. Just do it.

At the end of the day, AI bros are selling you the idea that you can get rid of all the friction—but the friction is where the magic happens.

PSA: KTQ submissions close in three days.

Send your work to these awesome mags, and send your work to us, too! We're open through April 1!

This is so important! We have acceptance rates as a very generalized marker, but reading the specific guidelines + the magazine itself will give you a better shot every time

So far, we've matched up 14 pairs of collaborators for our 9th issue! There's still time for you to sign up! forms.gle/23oq3yHqbGtf...

If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

- “Hoppy on akkant of his joyicity.” - “The referee amogus uncanny.” - “My salty shmlawg.”

Almost national poetry month!

Huge congrats to Dani Janae, KTQ contributor and Pushcart nominee! Read her collection!

Check out our new batch of lit mag submission opportunities, including Gulf Stream Magazine, @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social, @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social, @unborderedmag.bsky.social, @crowkeys.bsky.social, and more! wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

We're not at AWP (bummer), but we're both still cool and open for submissions!

Subs are open!!

We're so grateful to have a beautiful piece by Elzbieta Zdunek as the cover of our Winter issue and are happy to point you to more of her work over at Red Ogre Review!

Over here, we love the histories of objects, and we love this prompt!

Artist showcase time! From the Red Ogre Review art collection: Elzbieta Zdunek The Love Song Issue Twenty-Four, June 2024 https://ogre.red/issues/2024-06/2024-06-zdunek-elzbieta/ (Courtesy of the ROR art bot.)

New issue, who's this?

It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

We are delighted to be able to showcase all of these incredible Pushcart Nominees. If you haven't read these pieces yet, you can find them in our archive. Do it!

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!