TRossi (she/her)
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We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We’re thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2026:
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
“On Craft” by Erica Dawson
“Clutch” by Stephanie Frazee
“Holes” by Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
“Cooking Lesson” by Shira Haus
“Five O’Clock Shadow in Philly” by Allen Means
“The Opposite of Dusk” by Ron Riekki
It’s that time of year again!
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It’s that time of year again!
Can’t wait to read this! Out 11/30 from Cash4Gold books. Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/alli...
October 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Can’t wait to read this! Out 11/30 from Cash4Gold books. Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/alli...
“Poor Historian” by @rriekki.bsky.social haunts long after the read.
"I mean that they would tie us to fences
and there were so many fences
because it was a military base
where they were practicing the art of borders"
—Ron Riekki
anmly.org/ap40/ron-rie...
and there were so many fences
because it was a military base
where they were practicing the art of borders"
—Ron Riekki
anmly.org/ap40/ron-rie...
Ron Riekki – ANMLY
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August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Poor Historian” by @rriekki.bsky.social haunts long after the read.
New remote classes starting this week with David Ryan: Studies in Shadow Form (starts tomorrow, Thursday, 7/24) and Irrealism: Surrealism and the Lyric Essay (starts Sunday, 7/27). His classes are so inspiring and generative! More info and signup here:
curiovox.com/185-2/
curiovox.com/185-2/
CurioVox offers education and consulting services from writer David Ryan, author of the forthcoming collection, Alligator (C4G Books). His earlier, Animals in Motion: Stories (Roundabout Press), Kirkus reviewed as “A debut collection of stories—one of the best in recent memory…. Ryan has plainly been honing his craft, because the 13 tales here are the work of a writer who knows exactly what he’s doing—and challenges the reader to figure out how he’s doing it…”
curiovox.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New remote classes starting this week with David Ryan: Studies in Shadow Form (starts tomorrow, Thursday, 7/24) and Irrealism: Surrealism and the Lyric Essay (starts Sunday, 7/27). His classes are so inspiring and generative! More info and signup here:
curiovox.com/185-2/
curiovox.com/185-2/
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What's in the box?
July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What's in the box?
@variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social Her story’s sunlit-subtle menace will have you looking over your shoulder in a literary way!
It was my great honor to guest edit the Summer 2025 issue of Ploughshares.
It’s got so much great writing, I can’t wait for you all to see.
To celebrate, we’re having a reading in Boston on July 16.
You will love hearing Nadia, Carolyn, and Barbara read. I promise you.
Register now!
It’s got so much great writing, I can’t wait for you all to see.
To celebrate, we’re having a reading in Boston on July 16.
You will love hearing Nadia, Carolyn, and Barbara read. I promise you.
Register now!
Celebrate Halloween early with Ploughshares! Join us at 6pm on July 16th at Trident Booksellers in Boston, MA, for the launch of our sinister Summer 2025 issue, guest-edited by Victor LaValle and filled with werewolves, monsters, and more. Register here: https://pshr.us/sinistersummerlaunch
July 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
@variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social Her story’s sunlit-subtle menace will have you looking over your shoulder in a literary way!
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What an honor! Thanks @variantlit.bsky.social for seeing something in this story!
Congratulations to the Variant writers on the Wigleaf Top 50 2025 Longlist!
@danbillyc.bsky.social "Kilter" (Spring 2024)
@courtludwick.bsky.social "Quarter" (Spring 2024)
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social "The Interview" (Fall 2024)
@sarahroth.bsky.social "Postnatural" (Winter 2024)
@danbillyc.bsky.social "Kilter" (Spring 2024)
@courtludwick.bsky.social "Quarter" (Spring 2024)
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social "The Interview" (Fall 2024)
@sarahroth.bsky.social "Postnatural" (Winter 2024)
new on our mainpage: THE WIGLEAF TOP 50 VERY SHORT FICTIONS 2025 (selecting editor @samanito.bsky.social )
June 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What an honor! Thanks @variantlit.bsky.social for seeing something in this story!
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A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.
Is Harry Styles bagging groceries at a Trader Joe's in Indiana? Read this funny, tender story by Andrew Graham Martin to find out.
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
"My Teenage Daughter" variantlit.com/my-teenage-d...
My Teenage Daughter
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July 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A delightful and tender piece that I could read over and over and over again.
Congratulations Elijah! In case you missed it, read this @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 here:
We're so excited to see "The Proposed" by Elijah Sparkman in The @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50! Read it here: variantlit.com/the-proposed/
June 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Congratulations Elijah! In case you missed it, read this @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 here:
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"The mouse in the grass gains confidence, and it is harder and harder to keep track of her. She runs around and starts to remember herself, the part of her that ran through grasses in past lives."
Read "Red White Fur" by Sonny Fillmore, about a snake, a mouse, a boy
variantlit.com/red-white-fur/
Read "Red White Fur" by Sonny Fillmore, about a snake, a mouse, a boy
variantlit.com/red-white-fur/
Red White Fur
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June 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The mouse in the grass gains confidence, and it is harder and harder to keep track of her. She runs around and starts to remember herself, the part of her that ran through grasses in past lives."
Read "Red White Fur" by Sonny Fillmore, about a snake, a mouse, a boy
variantlit.com/red-white-fur/
Read "Red White Fur" by Sonny Fillmore, about a snake, a mouse, a boy
variantlit.com/red-white-fur/
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"She presses her glossy lips together over a folded white napkin. When she pulls the paper from her mouth, there’s a perfect print of two coral lips—a Rorschach test: a butterfly. a boy. a blowfish. an ocean."
Read this Micro Series by Laci Mosier from issue 21
variantlit.com/micro-series/
Read this Micro Series by Laci Mosier from issue 21
variantlit.com/micro-series/
Micro Series
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June 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"She presses her glossy lips together over a folded white napkin. When she pulls the paper from her mouth, there’s a perfect print of two coral lips—a Rorschach test: a butterfly. a boy. a blowfish. an ocean."
Read this Micro Series by Laci Mosier from issue 21
variantlit.com/micro-series/
Read this Micro Series by Laci Mosier from issue 21
variantlit.com/micro-series/
@derekshirae.bsky.social ‘s “Terminal” serves up strange snacks and an unlikely protagonist.
"He dabbed the keys with spit, rubbed each one clean, and tasted his fingers. Not always chocolate, but it would average out. His father had forbidden it, said Q could have all the chocolate he wanted in Heaven." Sit at the terminal in this story by Derek Shirae 🐛🍩
variantlit.com/terminal/
variantlit.com/terminal/
Terminal
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June 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@derekshirae.bsky.social ‘s “Terminal” serves up strange snacks and an unlikely protagonist.
Yikes. Wondering where we’ll be even a year from now on this front.
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Yikes. Wondering where we’ll be even a year from now on this front.
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“It’s kind of exhausting maintaining everything I have going on, which isn’t that much, but even without ambitions you still have to go and be whoever it is you’ve been for however long you’ve been alive.”
So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit.
variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...
So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit.
variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...
Sparrow’s Work Song
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June 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“It’s kind of exhausting maintaining everything I have going on, which isn’t that much, but even without ambitions you still have to go and be whoever it is you’ve been for however long you’ve been alive.”
So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit.
variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...
So excited to have this new #flashfiction in Variant Lit.
variantlit.com/sparrows-wor...
One urgent care visit takes an unexpected turn in @beebs44120.bsky.social ‘s “Nothing Dead in Your Ear.” Read it in Issue 21 from @variantlit.bsky.social here: variantlit.com/nothing-dead...
Nothing Dead in Your Ear
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June 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
One urgent care visit takes an unexpected turn in @beebs44120.bsky.social ‘s “Nothing Dead in Your Ear.” Read it in Issue 21 from @variantlit.bsky.social here: variantlit.com/nothing-dead...
Cannot recommend David Ryan’s classes strongly enough! His revision course is 🔥, the craft classes so generative! Check out the what’s starting soon along with other opportunities here: curiovox.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Cannot recommend David Ryan’s classes strongly enough! His revision course is 🔥, the craft classes so generative! Check out the what’s starting soon along with other opportunities here: curiovox.com
Prose, lighthearted and somber—little somethings for everyone in Summer Issue 21!
June 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Prose, lighthearted and somber—little somethings for everyone in Summer Issue 21!
This one catches you midsteam and pulls you under. If only it didn’t hit so close to home. 🧚
"The ad for the job caught my eye in the Sunday paper, wedged between a posting for a home health aide and one for a house cleaner. Wanted: Tooth Fairy."
Read this surprising story from our Summer issue! 🦷 by
Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
variantlit.com/holes/
Read this surprising story from our Summer issue! 🦷 by
Nicole Desjardins Gowdy
variantlit.com/holes/
Holes
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June 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This one catches you midsteam and pulls you under. If only it didn’t hit so close to home. 🧚
Wonderful work in this issue, check it out!
June 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Wonderful work in this issue, check it out!
A bit late to the party, but wow! Whoa! What a way to kick off summer reading.
June 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A bit late to the party, but wow! Whoa! What a way to kick off summer reading.
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I've designed the cover already for Issue 19 & I've drafted an article explaining the several key changes to Stanchion Magazine.
All I need is your brilliant prose & poetry.
Who's gonna send in something on June 16th for Stanchion's first ever guest editor, @fbereaud.bsky.social, to read?
All I need is your brilliant prose & poetry.
Who's gonna send in something on June 16th for Stanchion's first ever guest editor, @fbereaud.bsky.social, to read?
May 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I've designed the cover already for Issue 19 & I've drafted an article explaining the several key changes to Stanchion Magazine.
All I need is your brilliant prose & poetry.
Who's gonna send in something on June 16th for Stanchion's first ever guest editor, @fbereaud.bsky.social, to read?
All I need is your brilliant prose & poetry.
Who's gonna send in something on June 16th for Stanchion's first ever guest editor, @fbereaud.bsky.social, to read?
I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
I’m teaching a new (& free!) class called Shape Your Story: How to Create a Full-Length Memoir with Confidence next week—It’s esp good for people who’ve written short pieces, such as blogs or Substack posts, & want to write memoir. Live class, but recording available: esmewang.com/shape-your-story
Esmé Weijun Wang | Memoir Writing & Personal Nonfiction
Explore Esmé Weijun Wang’s memoir writing courses, The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise, personal essays, and living well with chronic illness.
esmewang.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I’ve found @esmewang.com’s free guides helpful and generative. This class could help get your memoir started!
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Acceptance post! I’m so delighted @variantlit.bsky.social magazine has accepted a new #flashfiction of mine. I can’t wait to share it with everyone! ✨🌼🙌🎉
If you haven’t checked out the poetry and prose in Variant’s spring issue it’s a stunner variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
If you haven’t checked out the poetry and prose in Variant’s spring issue it’s a stunner variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
ISSUE TWENTY
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March 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Acceptance post! I’m so delighted @variantlit.bsky.social magazine has accepted a new #flashfiction of mine. I can’t wait to share it with everyone! ✨🌼🙌🎉
If you haven’t checked out the poetry and prose in Variant’s spring issue it’s a stunner variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
If you haven’t checked out the poetry and prose in Variant’s spring issue it’s a stunner variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
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A new neat thing from Lemon Grove Writers! I’ve created 30 poetry prompts for April, and I’ll be emailing one out each morning (around 6am Central) for the whole month. Here's the link if you want to join in!
lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts
lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts
March 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A new neat thing from Lemon Grove Writers! I’ve created 30 poetry prompts for April, and I’ll be emailing one out each morning (around 6am Central) for the whole month. Here's the link if you want to join in!
lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts
lemongrovewriters.com/april-prompts