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Variant Literature is a small press and magazine.

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swwim.bsky.social
Join us Thursday, November 13 at 7pm (EST) for a reading and conversation with Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall at The Betsy Hotel’s B Bar. This event will be live-streamed from The Betsy on SWWIM’s Instagram and Facebook pages.

XO
SWWIM Team

@taylorbyas.bsky.social

#SWWIMEveryDay
Flyer saying SWWIM "A Poetry Reading & Conversation" with images of two women, Taylor Byas and Rosa Sophia Godshall, November 13 / 7:00 PM / The B Bar / Livestream on IG/FB / The Betsy Southbeach
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Photo of Japanese maple tree with orange leaves in fall against blue sky. Text: Variant Lit open all November for poetry and prose. Free subs. We pay $10.
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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davidjbauman.bsky.social
I’ve been sharing this and images from the Bearded Bards page on Instagram and Facebook, so please feel free to share about Saturday’s reading as well as the one in December wherever you find poetry lovers. It’s a zoom reading, so it’s not limited to here :-)
November 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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davidjbauman.bsky.social
For a sample of the sort of thing you might hear Saturday, here is a poem by @toddedillard.bsky.social from his chapbook *Ragnarock at the Father-Daughter Dance*
How to Live Depravity begins with thinking of love as a radical act. I quit loving with difficulty. I love easy now. Two parakeets on my shoulders. They'll fly away if I move. So I move. I love flight. I love cages left wide open. I am not a window. I could be a window. Open me, you'll find a dense wood, children wandering inside it. Not lost children. They know the way. They live the way horses run. If they each had a bird in hand they would open their hands.
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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onestorymag.bsky.social
Submissions are open at One Story until we reach our cap of 2000. Send us your stories at: bit.ly/4oOPpGO
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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megjnic.bsky.social
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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bulbculture.bsky.social
💡 ANNOUNCEMENT! 💡

Bulb Culture Collective will be reopening for submissions on NOVEMBER 24, 2025!

We can't wait to read your incredible previously published work!
Submission Guidelines — Bulb Culture Collective
www.bulbculturecollective.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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cincinnatireview.bsky.social
You read that right! miCRo submissions are OPEN! Send us your best work of 500 words or fewer.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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petrichorlit.bsky.social
petrichor is open for another 2 weeks for general submissions and microwork for Pebbles vol. 6.
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November 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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novalune.bsky.social
Here’s a poem from @toddedillard.bsky.social I think about at least once a week:
Poem titled How to Live by Todd Dillard.
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Photo of Japanese maple tree with orange leaves in fall against blue sky. Text: Variant Lit open all November for poetry and prose. Free subs. We pay $10.
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Did your chapbook submission turn into a pumpkin at midnight? We’ve got you! 🎃🫶 Take the week and send your manuscript by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov. 9th. We can’t wait to read it!
November 9th THE SARABANDE CHAPBOOK PRIZE Extended $1,000 prize SARABANDEBOOKS.SUBMITTABLE.COM
November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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triohousepress.org
Submissions are now open for our annual poetry manuscript contests! We can’t wait to read yours. 💜💛💜💛 Enter here: triohousepress.submittable.com/submit
Graphic announcing contest openings
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
variantlit.bsky.social
Keep sending us your poems and prose! We'd love to see more weird stuff in the poetry queue. If you're not sure it makes sense, but couldn't imagine it any other way, our submissions are open!

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Screenshot of open categories for Variant submissions: flash prose or micro series, literary fiction, speculative fiction, or poetry.
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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readinstead.bsky.social
What do you need? You need to know about this amazing @notatawp.bsky.social reading with @victoriawrites.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social and @toosiewatson.bsky.social next month! Register now:

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...
A NAWP Reading: Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas & Daniella Toosie-Watson
A NAWP Reading with Victoria Buitron, Taylor Byas and Daniella Toosie Watson hosted by Jared Beloff.
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October 31, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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ettereview.bsky.social
-ette Issue 6: Roulette is now live!

www.ettereview.com/fall2025/

Spin the animated wheel and check out new work by:

Laura Cronk
@josehernandezdz.bsky.social
@suzyeynon.bsky.social
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
@mattleibel.bsky.social
Emma Raimondo
Lit mag issue cover showing croupier at roulette wheel. List of writers and stories in issue. Laura Cronk, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Suzy Eynon, Rachel Kowalsky, Matt Leibel, Emma Raimondo
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
variantlit.bsky.social
Check out this forthcoming book from recent Variant contributor @pahoehoe.bsky.social!
pahoehoe.bsky.social Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social · 13d
Cover reveal. The author and an ARC of his beautiful new book, “The Divide,” from Cornerstone Press, release date of February, 2026. I’m so pleased with the folks at this press!
Dude sitting in his car, holding up the cover of a book, The Divide, from Cornerstone Press.
October 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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ironhorselitrev.bsky.social
Free Submit Day for our TOYS Issue is November 1st!
The portal will open at 9 AM CST and will close automatically when we reach our cap. Link: ironhorse.submittable.com/submit/8756a...
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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inshortlit.bsky.social
Want a submissions secret? 🤫 We get way fewer short-short and micro submissions than flash, so if you want to increase your chances, why not give one of those a try?

Here’s a short-short from Issue 3 we love by @ezhang77.bsky.social
inshortjournal.com/elena-zhang-2/
Elena Zhang
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October 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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cphillipspoet.bsky.social
A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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toddedillard.bsky.social
love love love this goodreads review of my chapbook :)
Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance! This chapbook, authored by Todd Dillard, is a gem. For me, it’s in my top three with Ubasute and This Tilting Earth. The poet, Dillard, weaves his way, with humor and apprehension, through a pandemic and being a girl-dad. His poems touch on uncharted times of a Covid plague and lockdown beside the struggles of life and fatherhood, all done with vibrant images. I had to read the first poem, “Pear Snow,” a few times. Thinking of the Helene floods in North Carolina, I traveled with him as the “air velvets / as if it’s going to rain,” and as he obliged the cadavers their wishes before returning them “back into their cradles.” Dillard’s work reveals him to be the king of enjambment as one grasps a line only to be startled by the first word of the next line. Midst the reference to Ragnarök, the Norse rebirth myth, each poem is skilled and stoic, no slacker poems here! “The Sadness of Horses” lets us “wade into the water to eat the moon.” The “Lighthouse” poem is devastating and tender; yes, both at once. And Dillard’s poems about his efforts to father a young daughter allow us to wander, sometimes fearful, into a world through a child’s untainted eyes of wonder as a father presses onward through unfamiliar places. Dillard shows us how we can “make a sky out of anything.” A chapbook worthy of one re-read after another. Thank you to the poet.
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
variantlit.bsky.social
Hey are you busy today? (Don't worry, this isn't a creepy vague text received on a Sunday morning, just a reminder that we're open in all categories!)

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October 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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megjnic.bsky.social
Send your work to Variant if, like me, you're submitting poetry this weekend!
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
variantlit.bsky.social
Hey past contributors to @variantlit.bsky.social! If you have good news (a recent publication, an upcoming book, a reading), tag or email us. We want to know about it!
October 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
variantlit.bsky.social
Reminder that our books are available from @asterismbooks.bsky.social!

It Was Never Supposed To Be
by @benkline.bsky.social
Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance by @toddedillard.bsky.social
love letters from a burning planet by @bluejayverses.bsky.social & more

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Variant Lit | Asterism Books
Variant Literature is a small, independent press and magazine committed to publishing diverse voices at all stages of their careers. We strive to be a press that fully supports our writers in carving ...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM