TRossi (she/her)
@trossiwriter.bsky.social
Writes. Professes. Edits.
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...
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
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.
Let us help your story love you back! Imagine if your writing could treat you to a cup of coffee and pastry, or a drop in the rent bucket!
We’re open for subs until April 5, and we pay! variantlit.com/submit/
We’re open for subs until April 5, and we pay! variantlit.com/submit/
March 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Let us help your story love you back! Imagine if your writing could treat you to a cup of coffee and pastry, or a drop in the rent bucket!
We’re open for subs until April 5, and we pay! variantlit.com/submit/
We’re open for subs until April 5, and we pay! variantlit.com/submit/
Sometimes the food even encourages you back. My teabag from today’s writing struggle:
March 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sometimes the food even encourages you back. My teabag from today’s writing struggle:
@variantlit Issue 20 is live! Read it here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
March 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@variantlit Issue 20 is live! Read it here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty/
Congratulations to @variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social ! Read her story here: midwayjournal.com/author/barba...
January 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Congratulations to @variantlit.bsky.social’s own @barbaralockmd.bsky.social ! Read her story here: midwayjournal.com/author/barba...
I loved both of these by Anna DeForest.
January 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I loved both of these by Anna DeForest.
Here are some creatures to inspire new nightmares after Christmas:l
December 26, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Here are some creatures to inspire new nightmares after Christmas:l
Health and happiness to you, today and always.
And to journal readers and editors, may you uncover treasures in the holiday queue!
And to journal readers and editors, may you uncover treasures in the holiday queue!
December 26, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Health and happiness to you, today and always.
And to journal readers and editors, may you uncover treasures in the holiday queue!
And to journal readers and editors, may you uncover treasures in the holiday queue!
@variantlit.bsky.social we love narrative prose. Send some our way!
November 25, 2024 at 8:09 PM
@variantlit.bsky.social we love narrative prose. Send some our way!
The cast, crew, and orchestra of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Purchase College staged an amazing matinee performance yesterday, with Desara Leka radiant in the title role. Grateful to these student performers for the gift of art this season.
November 25, 2024 at 7:59 PM
The cast, crew, and orchestra of Amahl and the Night Visitors at Purchase College staged an amazing matinee performance yesterday, with Desara Leka radiant in the title role. Grateful to these student performers for the gift of art this season.
We’re open again through June 30th, craving tasty narrative treats: short story main courses and superb flash and micro snacks in both fiction and nonfiction flavors! variantlit.submittable.com/submit
June 11, 2024 at 7:58 PM
We’re open again through June 30th, craving tasty narrative treats: short story main courses and superb flash and micro snacks in both fiction and nonfiction flavors! variantlit.submittable.com/submit
Happy New Year, #writing friends! We’re open at Variant for prose this month, poetry and art in February, for Issue 18 due out in April. Send us your narrative-driven prose with all its shiny, sparkly objects!
January 3, 2024 at 5:45 PM
Happy New Year, #writing friends! We’re open at Variant for prose this month, poetry and art in February, for Issue 18 due out in April. Send us your narrative-driven prose with all its shiny, sparkly objects!
A magical evening for all present! The inaugural reading of Mediated Contagion kicked off the series with community, food, and fun. Huge thanks to all who hosted, fed, and turned up to listen. Can’t wait for the next one in Spring 2024!
December 18, 2023 at 11:37 PM
A magical evening for all present! The inaugural reading of Mediated Contagion kicked off the series with community, food, and fun. Huge thanks to all who hosted, fed, and turned up to listen. Can’t wait for the next one in Spring 2024!
Can’t-wait-to-do list:
Finish the last of these gorgeous Yiyun Li stories
Print her essay to read again
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/b...
Reread “Silver Water” by Amy Bloom
Finish the last of these gorgeous Yiyun Li stories
Print her essay to read again
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/b...
Reread “Silver Water” by Amy Bloom
October 5, 2023 at 3:29 PM
Can’t-wait-to-do list:
Finish the last of these gorgeous Yiyun Li stories
Print her essay to read again
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/b...
Reread “Silver Water” by Amy Bloom
Finish the last of these gorgeous Yiyun Li stories
Print her essay to read again
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/b...
Reread “Silver Water” by Amy Bloom
It’s October, and that means prose submissions are open at Variant Lit! Send us your pretties or this guy’ll smash the pumpkin!
October 3, 2023 at 5:19 PM
It’s October, and that means prose submissions are open at Variant Lit! Send us your pretties or this guy’ll smash the pumpkin!
We’ve finally settled into the new office, me and the gang…
October 3, 2023 at 5:14 PM
We’ve finally settled into the new office, me and the gang…
Members of the writerverse, check this out! We’re open now for prose submissions!
October 2, 2023 at 12:02 AM
Members of the writerverse, check this out! We’re open now for prose submissions!
In case anyone’s up for it, here’s an exciting literary event being held this Friday in Hartford in a cool art gallery to boot! A panel of six 2023 O Henry Award winners (including David Ryan), with series editor Jenny Minton and prize judge Lauren Groff!
www.riverbendbookshop.com/event/bestsh...
www.riverbendbookshop.com/event/bestsh...
September 30, 2023 at 9:27 PM
In case anyone’s up for it, here’s an exciting literary event being held this Friday in Hartford in a cool art gallery to boot! A panel of six 2023 O Henry Award winners (including David Ryan), with series editor Jenny Minton and prize judge Lauren Groff!
www.riverbendbookshop.com/event/bestsh...
www.riverbendbookshop.com/event/bestsh...
Here’s my story, fresh out today in Invisible City Issue 7! Many, many thanks to Ben, Anna, and Gretchen!
www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/make...
www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/make...
September 5, 2023 at 5:30 PM
Here’s my story, fresh out today in Invisible City Issue 7! Many, many thanks to Ben, Anna, and Gretchen!
www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/make...
www.invisiblecitylit.com/fiction/make...
Excited for poems from Esteban Rodríguez’s forthcoming book to inspire my College Writing students this fall!
August 23, 2023 at 2:03 AM
Excited for poems from Esteban Rodríguez’s forthcoming book to inspire my College Writing students this fall!
Looking forward to the start of a new semester and introducing students to the course theme, ideas, and readings from @alexanderchee.bsky.social, Natalli Amato, and Mario Alberto Zambrano!
August 21, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Looking forward to the start of a new semester and introducing students to the course theme, ideas, and readings from @alexanderchee.bsky.social, Natalli Amato, and Mario Alberto Zambrano!