David Elliot Eisenstat
@eisenstat.bsky.social
Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
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We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We’re in our final stretch for Winter 2026 submissions and would love to read your work. Submissions close December 4th. We are accepting poetry, flash prose, and fiction.
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We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
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New short story in the Fall issue of The Account! "There Has Been an Emergency"
theaccountmagazine.com/article/eyno...
theaccountmagazine.com/article/eyno...
There Has Been an Emergency | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
theaccountmagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
New short story in the Fall issue of The Account! "There Has Been an Emergency"
theaccountmagazine.com/article/eyno...
theaccountmagazine.com/article/eyno...
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Have you ever wondered how...
• a literary magazine is run?
• decisions are made on submissions?
• to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine?
Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ...
Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏
• a literary magazine is run?
• decisions are made on submissions?
• to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine?
Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ...
Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Have you ever wondered how...
• a literary magazine is run?
• decisions are made on submissions?
• to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine?
Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ...
Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏
• a literary magazine is run?
• decisions are made on submissions?
• to improve your chances of getting published by an established literary magazine?
Ask our editors (almost) anything by 11/30: forms.gle/NiBR9KQG2PHZ...
Answers coming in our January newsletter! 🫏
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Very excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Very excited to announce our nominations for the Monarch Queer Literary Awards!
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🚨BIG NEWS REVEAL🚨 So excited to share that I wrote a poetry chapbook about my lupus and the grief that comes with it. It's PUBLISHED with #BottlecapPress🥄🔥!
Order your copy here: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
#poetrycommunity #poet #smallpress #buymybook #writersofbluesky #newbooks
Order your copy here: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
#poetrycommunity #poet #smallpress #buymybook #writersofbluesky #newbooks
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🚨BIG NEWS REVEAL🚨 So excited to share that I wrote a poetry chapbook about my lupus and the grief that comes with it. It's PUBLISHED with #BottlecapPress🥄🔥!
Order your copy here: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
#poetrycommunity #poet #smallpress #buymybook #writersofbluesky #newbooks
Order your copy here: bottlecap.press/products/asp...
#poetrycommunity #poet #smallpress #buymybook #writersofbluesky #newbooks
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October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Looking forward to reading your poems!
October 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Looking forward to reading your poems!
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We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!
Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
October 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!
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Announcing our Best of the Net nominations!
Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”
Erica Dawson — “On Craft”
griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”
Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”
Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”
Erica Dawson — “On Craft”
griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”
Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”
October 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Announcing our Best of the Net nominations!
Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”
Erica Dawson — “On Craft”
griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”
Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”
Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament”
Erica Dawson — “On Craft”
griffin epstein — “well-adjusted”
Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation”
So excited to be taking on this role at Variant!
Meet David Elliot Eisenstat, our Managing Poetry Editor!
A Brooklyn-based poet, David’s work has appeared in THINK, The Pierian, and Rust & Moth, among others. You can read more of his poems at davideisenstat.com/poetry.
A Brooklyn-based poet, David’s work has appeared in THINK, The Pierian, and Rust & Moth, among others. You can read more of his poems at davideisenstat.com/poetry.
October 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So excited to be taking on this role at Variant!
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Author Spotlight #25: David Elliot Eisenstat (eisenstat.bsky.social) and his creative nonfiction piece, "The Bread of Affliction."
Read his piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/the-bread-of...
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#litmags #authorspotlight #creativenonfiction #disabilities
Read his piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/the-bread-of...
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#litmags #authorspotlight #creativenonfiction #disabilities
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Author Spotlight #25: David Elliot Eisenstat (eisenstat.bsky.social) and his creative nonfiction piece, "The Bread of Affliction."
Read his piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/the-bread-of...
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#litmags #authorspotlight #creativenonfiction #disabilities
Read his piece here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/the-bread-of...
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#litmags #authorspotlight #creativenonfiction #disabilities
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Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
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KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
June 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
KNIT INK, my exploration of the possibilities and limits of formal poetry and literary constraint, is available now from @deepvellum.bsky.social! Get yours here: store.deepvellum.org/products/kni...
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Solidarity to every poet who finally figured out what that poem needed, and is now tempted to yank the previous version from submission queues.
(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )
(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )
September 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Solidarity to every poet who finally figured out what that poem needed, and is now tempted to yank the previous version from submission queues.
(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )
(don't do it, that confuses editors and readers, just wait -- )
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🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.
No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
August 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🗓️Monthly reminder: The Circle is always open.
No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
No fee. Quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
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Our issue 4 is out--official post coming soon with accounts tagged. We use a scheduling platform, Buffer, and it ran into a posting issue for some reason.
In the meantime, see the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/
In the meantime, see the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/
Issue 4
Editor’s Note: Dear Reader, Thank you for stopping by! This is the last main issue of 2025, so it’s a little bittersweet because FLARE has grown so much in such little time. When starti…
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August 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our issue 4 is out--official post coming soon with accounts tagged. We use a scheduling platform, Buffer, and it ran into a posting issue for some reason.
In the meantime, see the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/
In the meantime, see the issue here: flaremagazinecom.wordpress.com/issue-4/
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POEM SEALED IN A BOTTLE
A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.
A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.
January 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
POEM SEALED IN A BOTTLE
A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.
A Petrarchan sonnet in iambic pentameter, holding inside it a Shakespearean sonnet in iambic monometer.
Always a pleasure to read a sonnet that does something a little different than the ones that came before.
August 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Always a pleasure to read a sonnet that does something a little different than the ones that came before.
Nobody does these flavors quite like Defenestration! The August issue is hilarious, and I’m so glad that one of my poems calls it home.
If the August 2025 issue of Defenestration were a candy bar, it would be chocolate filled with assorted nuts, ghosts, and the yellowing pages books. It would also have been banned in three dozen localities for causing seizures in the humorless. Devour it here: bit.ly/3HxXXCc #DefenestrationMagazine
August 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Nobody does these flavors quite like Defenestration! The August issue is hilarious, and I’m so glad that one of my poems calls it home.
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Do you want to edit for JAKE? The poetry team is looking for some more hands!
JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐ is open to submissions for Join the Team. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐
JAKE: The Anti Literary Magazine ⭐ is open to submissions for Join the Team. #CallforSubmissions
duotrope.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Do you want to edit for JAKE? The poetry team is looking for some more hands!
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Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
My Teenage Daughter
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June 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...