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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!
Hi John, I hope you're doing well. I’m reaching out with a timely opportunity to engage with the growing field of generative AI in a secure and profitable way. As part of our existing license agreement, your journal content is included in EBSCO’s research databases. We’ve recently been approached by several GenAI companies seeking high-quality, licensed content to train their large language models (LLMs)—creating a new revenue stream for publishers without compromising control or risking misuse. EBSCO has developed a program that ensures responsible use of your content and offers guaranteed income should your titles be chosen. For each title selected by the LLM, we’re offering: $0.0004 per word for non-Open Access journals $0.0001 per word for Open Access journals This initiative reflects over a year of thoughtful planning. Many of our Publisher Partners have shared that budget pressures are driving the need for new revenue sources, and we’ve designed this program to meet that need while protecting the integrity of your content. Please let me know if you’d be interested in discussing further. Warm regards,
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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
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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.
EPOCH 2025 Pushcart nominations Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador "All of his knives," poetry, issue 72.1 Steve Himmer "The Spider's Share," essay, issue 72.1 Tom McAllister "1993, 2017, and 2022," essay, issue 72.1 Pegah Ouji "Untouchables," fiction, issue 72.2 FM Stringer "Secular Prayer at the End of Daylight Saving Time," poetry, issue 72.2 Justin Taylor "Wild Silence," fiction, issue 72.2
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Proud to include @theonion.com alongside other distinguished literary publications in our office
September 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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
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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
Greg Ames, Aldo Amparan, Kristof Anetta, Brittany Atkinson, Remy Barnes, Danny Cassidy, Ariel Courage, Laine Derr, Renesha Dhanraj, Taylor Franson-Thiel, Elisa Gabbert, Lily Jarman-Reisch, Christopher Kennedy, Erin Malone, Cary Marcous, Michael Martin, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Pegah Ouji, Weijia Pan, Micah Perks, David Pjecha, Bryan Price, Stephen Thomas Roberts, Bee Sacks, Gabriel Schicchi, Greg Sendi, Brandon Shimoda, Murzban F. Shroff, Ed Skoog, Lisa Russ Spaar, FM Stringer, Justin Taylor, Emma Cairns Watson, Korey Williams.
July 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Coming soon
EPOCH Volume 72, Number 2. Cover painting of kids riding the subway. FICTION Renesha Dhanraj Remy Barnes Kristof Anetta Murzban F. Shroff Justin Taylor Pegah Ouji Bee Sacks Greg Ames Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi Emma Cairns Watson ESSAYS Greg Sendi Micah Perks POETRY Aldo Amparán Brandon Shimoda Weijia Pan Ed Skoog Betsy Mitchell Martinez Christopher Kennedy Bryan D. Price Danny Cassidy Elisa Gabbert Laine Derr Cary Marcous Erin Malone Lisa Russ Spaar Stephen Thomas Roberts Michael Martin Korey Williams Brittany Atkinson Lily Jarman-Reisch Taylor Franson-Thiel FM Stringer COMIC Ariel Courage COVER ART David Pjecha
June 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Hey #AWP25 attendees, we will be at bookfair today, table T832! Come check out the new issue, buy a tote, and meet the editors.
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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We're pleased to announce that the past TWENTY YEARS of EPOCH are is available in the form of high-quality PDF downloads, $7 for the new, larger format; $5 for the old, slimmer ones. www.epochliterary.com/archive
March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Today we have a new interview with George Saunders, by assistant editor Otis Fuqua! www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...
February 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Finally, this issue's featured essay is actually three short essays, from @tmcallister.bsky.social's forthcoming collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
Tom McAllister Cover of Tom McAllister's IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE: 42 YEARS IN 42 ESSAYS
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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We've also got a new story from Etgar Keret, translated from the hebrew by Jessica Cohen: "The Hallway" www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...
Etgar Keret, balancing books on his head. Photo by Lielle Sand The door was double-locked. Meir turned the key gently, slowly, trying not to make any noise. The last thing he needed was for Nirit to wake up now. He was trashed, and that felt pretty nice, but if Nirit woke up it would instantly stop feeling nice. It’s not that she’d make a scene or anything. She wasn’t the dramatic type. But the half-asleep half-disappointed look she’d give him before going back to bed would be all it took for the good part of being drunk to evaporate, leaving him slightly nauseous and very forlorn. He stood near the door, waiting for his eyes to get used to the dark. He still couldn’t see much—just the silhouette of a figure wearing a coat and hat, waiting for him, motionless, at the end of the hallway. It was startling. Especially the way the figure was completely frozen, as if it were trying to blend in with the wall so it could ambush him. He wanted to tell the figure that he could see it there and that if it didn’t reveal itself and explain what it was doing in his apartment in the middle of the night, he would call the police. He was about to cry out, but he was afraid to wake Nirit, so he opted for a different plan: instead of confronting the mysterious figure, he would simply lie down on the floor near the front door, at a safe distance from the man in the coat, and have a little doze. By morning, he was sure, the whole thing would be sorted out.
January 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We've added the TOC and cover of 72.1 to the site, along with three sneak previews of the issue! First, a new poem by Elaine Liu, "Roche Limit" www.epochliterary.com/featuredpoetry
poet Elaine Liu She wore red the day of her wedding like every woman in this family, twenty-four and not yet ripe but already rotten. Seasons stretched between fingers, strings of dormant yeast hung from the village to the moon— telephone lines for her husband to perch on, his nose hooked, wires tucked beneath nails. She tells me desire takes ten yuan and some change to ferment, that’s a dozen years for a human. That’s a lifetime for a girl. She’s seen one eclipse and still imagines being that whole. A veinous omen, complete and lunar.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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TOC for 72.1, headed to the printer next week. Featuring @adamoprice.bsky.social @mikemeginnis.bsky.social @tmcallister.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social @keemoart.bsky.social and many others
FICTION 4 Rare & Precious Antiques by Sarah Kokernot 20 The Women on the Night Shift by Frank X. Christmas 33 My Wife Is the Dead Wife by Nick Mandernach 42 Erin, the Local Version by Edmundo Paz Soldán translated from the Spanish by Jenna Tang 70 Intimate Crimes; Fluffy, Flurby, or Flobo; Putting Off; Start at the Start; Leitmotif?; and Frogs Made Sense by Shane Kowalski 80 The Irritant by Mike Meginnis 93 Leaving Shandong by Olivia Cheng 118 English Major by Josh Russell 122 Crater by Tracy Hill 139 The Writers Room by Adam O'Fallon Price 166 The Hallway by Etgar Keret translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen 184 Commission Piece by Juan Martinez ESSAYS 26 54 157 170 The Spider's Share by Steve Himmer Turkentaube by Valer Popa 106 1993, 2017, and 2022 by Tom McAllister Crisis Line by Olivia Fantini Under Our Own Power by Denali DeGraf POETRY 18 25 32 Scheherazade by Selena Spier Fortune & Favor by Emma Bolden Ruby Red Trout by Jiawei translated from the Chinese by Liang Yujing 41 Lily and the Bull by Sarah Davis 53 La Cegua Comes to Florida by Danilo Marin 68 Skywriting and I rattle myself into the mad light by Cristina Correa 76 Laika by Dana Koster 77 Firepit Embers Spark Wildfires by Richard Gallagher 91 Roche Limit by Elaine Liu 103 Diorama by Claire Wahmanholm 105 Fly to Venus Flytrap: A Love Letter by Hollie Dugas 116 Sky Excavation by Hai-Dang Phan 119 All of his knives, Lychee, and Sacrilegious by Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador 135 Righteous by D.T. Holt 136 The DAling Pla by Metaphysical Beings 164 Me Three by Sophia Schlesinger 169 To Be Changed So Quickly by Mary Gilliland 183 Love Song for the Year of Dionysus by Lizzy Ke Polishan 188 Fishing by Patrick Kindig 189 Contributor Notes COVER This Is Us When We Dream, 2023, acrylic and ink on canvas, 20" x 20", by Keemo
January 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Our guest editors this year are Michael Prior (poetry) and Téa Obreht (fiction). 72.1 will be out next month and features prose from Etgar Keret, Edmundo Paz Soldan, Juan Martinez, and Sarah Kokernot; and poetry from Hai-Dang Phan, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, and Jiawei.
January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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72.1 is now officially 🛌. Out in February, and featuring:
Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador Emma Bolden Olivia Cheng Frank X. Christmas Cristina Correa Sarah Davis Denali DeGraf Hollie Dugas Olivia Fantini Rebecca Morgan Frank Richard Gallagher Mary Gilliland Tracy Hill D.T. Holt Jiawei (translated by Liang Yujing) Keemo Etgar Keret (translated by Jessica Cohen) Partick Kindig Sarah Kokernot Dana Koster Shane Kowalski Elaine Liu Nick Mandernach Danilo Marin Juan Martinez Tom McAllister Mike Meginnis Edmundo Paz-Soldan (translated by Jenna Tang) Hai-Dang Phan Lizzy Ke Polishan Valer Popa Adam O’Fallon Price Josh Russell Sophia Schlesinger Selena Spier Claire Wahmanholm
December 3, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Today on the blog, poetry MFA candidate Ella Shively interviews paranormal romance writer Paige LaVoie, author of MOTHMAN IN LOVE www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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(reposting b/c of a typo!)
Our 2024 Pushcart nominees:
Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages”

Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes”

Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History”

Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days”

Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain”

Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah”
Our 2024 Pushcart nominees are: Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages,” essay, issue 71.1 
Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes,” fiction, issue 71.1 
Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History,” poetry, issue 71.1 
Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days,” poetry, issue 71.1 
Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain,” fiction, issue 71.2 
Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah,” poetry, issue 71.2
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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We open for subs at midnight, Thurs August 1, and will be open all month! $1 of the $3 fee will go, as always, to the Cornell Prison Education Program, which teaches writing in upstate New York prisons. We pay $100–$500. Watch this space for the upcoming free weekend! epoch.submittable.com/submit
July 30, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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Our PDF downloads, by the way, are VERY cheap, look spectacular on a tablet, and contain all the content of the print issue. Stop by the shop for copies of the new issue and a bunch of back issues, too. www.epochliterary.com/shop
July 8, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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Our Fall 2024 issue is out now! Visit epochliterary.com to order a copy (print or PDF), or subscribe. Click ALT for the full list of contributors.
EPOCH 71.2, featuring T. Abeyta, Amir Ahmadi Arian, MS Baker, Bruce Bond, Rosa Alice Branco, Alyx Chandler, Heather Christle, Lisa Compo, Michael Day, Stephen Dixon, Lara Egger, Emily Ellis, Ge Fang, Jordan Hamel, Lamar Herrin, Alex Higley, Alexis Levitin, Rebecca Lilly, Lu Min, Court Ludwick, Rosalind Margulies, Ioanna Mavrou, Mohammad Mokhtari, Tim Molloy, Susan Leslie Moore, Sandra Newman, Nome Emeka Patrick, Emily Rosko, Amy Rowland, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Vivek Sharma, Jennifer Sutherland, Daniel Uncapher, KP Vogell, Jonathan Wong-Hayden, and Sijing Yang.
July 8, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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71.2 is coming, and here's the proof
June 11, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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Today on the blog: a review of former editor Emma Catherine Perry's extraordinary BLOCKS WORLD, her debut poetry collection, from @greatplacebooks.bsky.social. "Should we look to our own creations to examine ourselves?" www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...
BLOCKS WORLD, by Emma Catherine Perry, from Great Place Books Emma Catherine Perry, straight chillin by the lake
February 19, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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The EPOCH staff posed behind their AWP table
February 7, 2024 at 6:50 PM