And we’re open @variantlit.bsky.social for poetry and prose (3-micro series, flash up to 1500 words and fiction up to 20 pages)! Please submit only once through 12/31 unless invited otherwise. Can’t wait to read your lovelies!

And that’s a wrap on semester two ✌🏻

Good morning! While we get ourselves set up over, if you've ever been published in Variant Lit, could you leave us a like? We want to make sure that we're up to date with your pubs!!

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

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go.bsky.app/5DKki9S

Looking for poets, poems, and so on? Here's a place to start. No promises that it includes everyone but I tried to get a lot of y'all in here. Some room to add a few more as people show up. go.bsky.app/5oLR4YJ

NEW POEM #86: "Poem Beginning with a Ballerina Music Box and Ending In a Field of Sunflowers" by Erica Abbott (@erica-abbott.bsky.social)

"I’m sure there’s
an equation to determine the rate

at which a girl will spill herself
at the wicked hands of weak men."

stonecirclereview.com/poem-beginning