EPOCH
@epochliterary.com
Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com
Reposted by EPOCH
Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager Powered By Submittable - Accept and Curate Digital Content
epoch.submittable.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!
Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager Powered By Submittable - Accept and Curate Digital Content
epoch.submittable.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!
Our Spring 2026 issue will be out in February! It's absolutely packed, and has a special section of translated poetry, prose poetry, and fiction.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our Spring 2026 issue will be out in February! It's absolutely packed, and has a special section of translated poetry, prose poetry, and fiction.
...and assistant fiction editor Sijing Yang interviews poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson. "There’s probably one corner of heaven where there's no distinction between writers and poets and dramatists and painters."
Interview: Ishion Hutchinson — EPOCH
“I think that the writer’s failure drawer must be deeper than the success’s. Because you have to go through it. Whatever it is that comes upon the writer to bring it out, maybe it’s just duty because ...
www.epochliterary.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
...and assistant fiction editor Sijing Yang interviews poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson. "There’s probably one corner of heaven where there's no distinction between writers and poets and dramatists and painters."
Today we have TWO new interviews with poets up on the blog. First, assistant poetry editor Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias interviews Richie Hofmann. "As a poet I am creating an aesthetic world."
Interview: Richie Hofmann — EPOCH
“I think there's a reader who might read my work and think oh my gosh, this is shocking and very naked! And you might have another reader read the same poems and say these are so prudish and buttoned-...
www.epochliterary.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Today we have TWO new interviews with poets up on the blog. First, assistant poetry editor Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias interviews Richie Hofmann. "As a poet I am creating an aesthetic world."
🧐
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!
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!
November 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🧐
Reposted by EPOCH
The answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You
Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!
Today on the blog, a new review of Domenica Martinello's poetry collection GOOD WANT, from assistant poetry editor Bridget Huh: poetry "that knows just the right things to ask and not ask, that has the immense and unknowable power to forgive." www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Today on the blog, a new review of Domenica Martinello's poetry collection GOOD WANT, from assistant poetry editor Bridget Huh: poetry "that knows just the right things to ask and not ask, that has the immense and unknowable power to forgive." www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...
Reposted by EPOCH
hey now
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
hey now
Reposted by EPOCH
Thank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Thank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!
Reposted by EPOCH
oh hey
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
oh hey
Reposted by EPOCH
Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com
Reposted by EPOCH
I'm so grateful to @epochliterary.com for publishing my essay "The Spider's Share" a few months ago, and now for this Pushcart nomination. And in such good company, too.
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I'm so grateful to @epochliterary.com for publishing my essay "The Spider's Share" a few months ago, and now for this Pushcart nomination. And in such good company, too.
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
Reposted by EPOCH
Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Very happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚
Our 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors are Emma Catherine Perry (poetry) and Daniel Peña (fiction). Click through to read about them!
The 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors: Emma Catherine Perry and Daniel Peña — EPOCH
Read about the 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors, Emma Catherine Perry and Daniel Peña.
www.epochliterary.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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
September 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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."
Create, Flee, Forget: a Review of The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan — EPOCH
What gets forgotten, why, and who gets to decide are some of Nathan’s central concerns. His vivid prose imbues these questions with multiple strains of pain: the pain of losing parents and lovers, the...
www.epochliterary.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
August 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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!
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager
We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...
epoch.submittable.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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."
With No Story to Save Me from Myself: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow — EPOCH
“Though there is a place for poetry-writing-as-personal-therapy, it has always been important to me to make work that rises beyond my own small life toward something universal, regardless of whether t...
www.epochliterary.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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!
Cowboy Park
uwpress.wisc.edu
August 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
COWBOY PARK, the new poetry collection from our contributor Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, just went into a second printing...check it out!
Reposted by EPOCH
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!
August 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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!
Reposted by EPOCH
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...
www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...
August 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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...
www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...