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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-...
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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!
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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!
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Received my contributor copy of @epochliterary.com latest issue with my story called Untouchables. Thanks to @jrobertlennon.com and other staff!
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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!
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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."
One Author’s Unusual Path to Immortality — EPOCH
Having become fascinated by Pessoa three years before, I was now living, by happenstance, a few blocks from his house, walking at odd hours through the same streets that Pessoa himself must have trave...
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August 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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!
August 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
People are asking about the free weekend. There is indeed one this month, just keep checking back every Saturday!
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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
August 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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
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July 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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
August 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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
July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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