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Megan Nichols
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Poems in Threepenny, Poetry Daily, Plume
Managing Editor for Variant Lit

https://megannicholswriter.com
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Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors ✨️

T. De Los Reyes / Kathy Jiang / Stefanie Lee / Arielle Kaplan / Christie M Buchovecky / Jane Zwart / Grace H. Zhou / Lalini Shanela Ranaraja / Nick Daoust / DL Pravda / Jeff Whitney / Guinotte Wise

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Celebrating our issue 22 poetry contributors: T. De Los Reyes Kathy Jiang Stefanie Lee Arielle Kaplan Christie M Buchovecky Jane Zwart Grace H. Zhou Lalini Shanela Ranaraja Nick Daoust DL Pravda Jeff Whitney Guinotte Wise
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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@megjnic.bsky.social and the wonderful folks of Lemon Grove Writers are hosting—come for the prompts, stay for the community!
megjnic.bsky.social Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social · 13d
Free 2-hour writing sprints are open to writers at any stage! Join us at 11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT) on the following Saturdays:

Feb 28th
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Hosted by writers Megan Nichols, Jessica Lohafer, and Caitlin Morris.
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Issue 22 of @variantlit.bsky.social is out! New prose & poetry from these amazing contributors:

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Variant issue 22 prose: Joey Hedger S. H. Woodgeard Rowan MacDonald Nicholas Claro Christian Fuller Elizabeth Rosen S. L. Johnson Chrissy Stegman Rebecca van Laer Gerardo J. Mercado Variant issue 22 poetry contributors: T. De Los Reyes Kathy Jiang Stefanie Lee Arielle Kaplan Christie M Buchovecky Jane Zwart Grace H. Zhou Lalini Shanela Ranaraja Nick Daoust DL Pravda Jeff Whitney Guinotte Wise
February 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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Meet me at the intersection of FREE! POETRY! under the the tutelage of the wonderful @ashlogophile.bsky.social
variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 11d
We're excited to announce a FREE poetry workshop! Ashley Kim @ashlogophile.bsky.social will lead The Weight of Small Moments: A Jane Kenyon Study on Feb 26th at 6PM PT

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The Weight of Small Moments: A Jane Kenyon Study on Feb 26th at 6PM PT, a free workshop hosted by Variant Literature.
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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Issue 22 is officially here!
We'll share highlights from these prose pieces and poems in the coming days. Check out the whole issue here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...
ISSUE TWENTY-TWO
Variant Literature Issue 22 (Winter 2026) features poetry from T. De Los Reyes, Kathy Jiang, Arielle Kaplan, Grace H. Zhou, and Jeff Whitney, and more. The issue also includes prose by Joey Hedger,…
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February 12, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Free 2-hour writing sprints are open to writers at any stage! Join us at 11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT) on the following Saturdays:

Feb 28th
March 7th
March 21st

Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com

Hosted by writers Megan Nichols, Jessica Lohafer, and Caitlin Morris.
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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I'm so excited about this free poetry workshop hosted by @variantlit.bsky.social !
Don't forget to register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Recently read. I got The Island after seeing the introduction was by Madeleine Watts.
4 books on a blue blanket: Scumbag Summer by Jillian Luft, The Island by Antigone Kefala, Animal Unfit chapbook by Megan Nichols, The Butter House by Sarah Gerard
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Free 2-hour writing sprints are open to writers at any stage! Join us at 11:00 AM CT (9:00 AM PT) on the following Saturdays:

Feb 28th
March 7th
March 21st

Sign up at lemongrovewriters.com

Hosted by writers Megan Nichols, Jessica Lohafer, and Caitlin Morris.
February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Love that Sharon Kennedy-Noelle used her project to give youth a voice
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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In our latest interview,
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle reflects on writing, witness, and the forms poetry can take when direct experience is unavailable.

Read the interview between Sharon Kennedy-Nolle and @megjnic.bsky.social on Variant's Variety Pack blog:

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Poetry as a Means of Survival: A Conversation with Sharon Kennedy-Nolle
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbo…
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January 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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HAPPY NEWS! I am grateful to the amazing Eugenia Leigh for choosing my manuscript SENTENCE to win the 2025 Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest! These poems are as much my brother’s as my own & I am thankful to everyone at Smith College for believing in them! Coming fall 2026!

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announcing the winner of our 2025 chapbook contest Susan L. Leary for her book SENTENCE nine syllables press
January 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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⏳ A little over a week remains! Submit today!
susurrusmag.bsky.social Susurrus @susurrusmag.bsky.social · Oct 15
🔔🔔🔔 #SubsOpen for our Winter 2025 issue! Submit your #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography to
@susurrusmag.bsky.social! Send us your gorgeous and compelling, your thoughtful and tender--all open to artists across the American South. Learn more at susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Submit — Susurrus
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November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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@variantlit.bsky.social is still open for submissions! Please send us your short stories, poems, and flash prose by Dec 4th!
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Send @variantlit.bsky.social your poetry, flash fiction, and short stories! Less than a month left!
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Send your work to Variant if, like me, you're submitting poetry this weekend!
variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Oct 21
We can't wait to read your work!

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October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Variant Literature Journal
Variant Literature Journal (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/variant-literature-journal-27746 #amwriting
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October 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This month's #Mondettes picked by @happilander.bsky.social

⚡Ten wonderful flash fictions
🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Mileva made these brilliant picks
🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing

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October 2025
Ten stories picked by Mileva Anastasiadou
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October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Remember, @susurrusmag.bsky.social is open for submissions through November 30th! We accept previously unpublished #poetry, #flash, #fiction, #CNF, and #photography from artists across the American South. Check the link below for more: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/submit
Submit — Susurrus
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October 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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We can't wait to read your work!

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Text on blue background: "we're open for submissions" and "submit your poetry, flash prose, and fiction to Variant Literature between October 21 and December 4"
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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When I first started editing a journal, I was baffled by the (occasional) plagiarized poem. It took me a while to understand part of what I think is going on. I believe some people may want to write, but either believe they cant, or actually can't afford to & publication looks like a way in
roxanegay.bsky.social Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Oct 20
This is what is confounding me about any convo involving AI and writing. Why would you outsource any part of the writing process to something that will do mediocre work, at best, and rob you of the best parts.
October 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Grateful to have a poem in this issue!
baltimorereview.bsky.social Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social · Oct 19
Our fall 2025 issue is live! Includes a micro section this time along with poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction. baltimorereview.org
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October 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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New poem in Cream City Review alongside the work of so many extraordinary talents! I’m super excited by this one, which is also forthcoming in my collection, MORE FLOWERS, out with Trio House Press in February 2026! 💙💜

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Susan L. Leary At First, Obedience, Subsequently— Defiance. The wound, begging for attention: its half heart beating beneath a lace doily while the ugliness explodes to the surface. Why disrupt this flourish of peace, this little tomb of white space? She looks good, they'd said. Brave inside unworkable conditions. Dead or alive, we make an anniversary of our sorrow, expeditious with our buckets of spring. To what do we owe the pleasure? You fabricate worlds in dreams while a girl fabricates worlds on the page. This is what is meant by ritual. When we say, the pedigree of the mouth-body is good. There's no use determining for whom our company is intended. Every gesture is dangerous. Were I to cut my ear off, I'd give it to you. An image of the front cover of Cream City Review.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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We’re excited to announce that magazine submissions for poetry and prose open October 21st!
variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · Oct 10
Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!
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October 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Hi! For anyone here who has wanted to join a Lemon Grove Writer's zoom writing sprint - our LAST sprint of 2025 is October 18th AND we're having an open mic. Now is the time to sign up! lemongrovewriters.com/sprint
Write with Us!
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October 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM