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We're excited to share the full cover for our next full-length collection: It Was Never Supposed To Be by
@BenKlinePoet
! Cover Design by George Gozum 🤩 this reveal also comes with a preoder link and a look inside 👀
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Y'all. It has to be said. This is a weird time to be called Variant.
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Chapbook submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction open next week! We can't wait to see what you've been working on!
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Happy Tuesday! We're giving away two copies of our latest poetry chapbook A Pocket of Genesis by Ernest Ògúnyẹmí! Like the post to enter. Winners announced tomorrow!
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We're open for prose until 10/31. Poetry and Visual Art open on 11/1. Send us something!
Hey writers! Get that 🍞
We linked a master copy of all the magazines closing for submissions this week in our bio.
😱(There are 60+)
The master list has room for way more details including hyper links to all the info to submit.
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#CoverReveal
If you don't know
@TaylorByas3
yet now's your chance!
#Bloodwarm
is now available for preorder we have a sample poem & video up on the site to give a glimpse of what's in store for you in this book. It's not one you will want to miss.
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Good morning! Submissions in poetry & art are now open for our next issue ✨
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Book birthday for this stunner next month ✨ Did someone say Giveaway?
Like the post to enter :) winners announced tomorrow noon EST!
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It was a sad time for all of us who missed the
@havehadhavehad
submission window last night. But hey, we open today and will stay open for *at least* 5 minutes. And actually for all of October. Send us your fiction and poetry!
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Say hello to the newest additions to the Variant family: MJ Gomez, Todd Dillard, Ian Powell-Palm, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ben Kline, Robin Rahija, and Jessica Ram!
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**clears throat**
Fiction and Nonfiction open!
Happy New Year!
variantlit dot submittable dot com slash submit
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"Happy New Year! I called out. Happy New Year to the waxing moon, the telepathic sea." -Patti Smith
And then she was like, "Variant Lit submissions are open for poetry and fiction."
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Chapbook submissions for our open reading period are open for the next two months!
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Just a heads up! We'll be taking chapbook subs in poetry this Dec. w/ selections made by
@adrianf
&
@TaylorByas3
but not only will they pick some books you'll get to work with them & us on bringing it into the world ✨ we'll also be taking full-length subs in poetry at this time
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We at Variant Literature Journal reaffirm the importance of humanism, human rights, and the human condition as a worthy subject for art. Our antennae are up for pluripotential, layered work that transforms irregularity into beauty.
Fiction and nonfiction are open from July 1-31
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Looking for more prose submissions...
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We are ~so excited~ to announce (drum roll please) The Variant Literature Pizza Prize. You get published, you get pizza, you get to bring friends.
This year's guest editor is
@AMrjoian575
, who loves pizza and who had the ideas that got us here.
🍕👇
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Thrilled to announce
@rosswhite
Director
@BullCityPress
winner of the 2019 Sexton Poetry Prize will be judging our Chapbook Contest! The winning author will receive $250, 20 author copies, & reviews on their work.
#RetweeetPlease
#poetry
#WritingCommunity
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New chapbook by
@toddedillard
! Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance is now available for preorder and will ship late next month! Check out this cover 🤩 by Bachman+Petrie and take a early look inside the book here:
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#CoverReveal
🚨 MJ Gomez's debut chap, love letters from a burning planet is now available for preorder!
Special thanks to
@adrianf
@caesarah_
Letitia Jiju
@gr8earlofhell
& Daniel Liu for spending time with this book❤️Catch a glimpse inside on our website!
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We're reading for our next issue right now! A few more days to send in some prose. Subs for art & poetry open next month! We pay $10 and nominate for everything :)
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Our team is interested in such a variety of work that we've decided in October, for a month, we're going to open up a general mss form where you can send us anything; a micro, chap, full length, novella etc.
We're excited about your work!
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Enter: the SECOND CHANCE anthology
Starring: anyone who has pulled their work from a publication for any reason
please send work to editors
@variantlit
.com by the end of July to be included in this re-home edition
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We are open for submissions through the end of the month!
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We are open until the end of the month for fiction and nonfiction!
We need more ✨nonfiction✨, please and thank you.
🖤🩶🖤🩶🖤🩶
https: slash slash variantlit dot submittable dot com slash submit
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We're looking for volunteers and hoping to connect with a lot of you interested in reading and/or editing for our mag/press, creating content on our social media platforms, and web design! There's a short google form on our site to fill out if interested!
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Excited to share that we've been offered a fellowship with Small Press Distribution (
@spdbooks
)!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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We're making a change to our submissions schedule. Fiction and nonfiction will be open in April, and poetry and visual art will be open in May. We're looking forward to reading your work and considering it for Issue 11!
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It brings us great joy to announce that Issue 9 is now live! Huge thanks to our contributors and to our team. We count ourselves lucky to be able to share such beauty with you all.
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The 2021 Variant Literature Microchap Contest Results!
Later today we'll be publishing the results of our Microchap Contest Judged by
@LannieStabile
! Y'all really came through & made this a hard decision for us & we're truly blessed to have had so much greatness in our inbox. Keep submitting and thank you for trusting us w/your work!
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We're currently open for fiction & nonfiction subs and more than happy to consider pulled pieces from Hobart. Poetry & art subs open next month!
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Poetry subs for issue 7 are open early 😎 You can send us as much as 5 poems and we'll get back to you within 2months (probably sooner)!
@k_lisarae
joins us as guest editor this issue 🌟
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Celebrating
@TaylorByas3
's bday with a Bloodwarm
#giveaway
! Like this post and give Taylor a follow to enter. We'll pick 3 random winners at midnight EST
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hey (with the intention of paying $10 for your poetry, art, cnf, and fiction)
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#CoverReveal
@jasonbcrawford
's Summertime Fine
#chapbook
#debut
brought to us by his sister
@hoorayforjai
Entering the world July 11 ✨
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🚨
#Giveaway
🚨
@maybenoreen
's latest chapbook
#NotFlowers
could be yours! Like this post to enter 🌸✨ we'll pick 2 winners tomorrow noon EST
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Nonfiction is OPEN!
Submittable has been showing it as closed, but if you go to our page you should be able to submit without any problems. Let us know if you run into any trouble! And please send more nonfiction our way.
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Really appreciate all the manuscript submissions! We've started going through them and will do our best to get decisions out within 4 months. Our open reading period is open for 3 more weeks!
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We're aiming to publish issue 18 next week-ish
AND THEN
the mag will take a two month hiatus during which we will reconsider our model for social media, nominations, the press distribution model, finances, and the mag pub frequency.
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In one month we'll be having an open mss call! Put us on your calendars! We want to read your micros, chaps, full lengths, novellas... whatever it is you're working on!
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Poetry is open!
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The results from our open manuscript reading period are in!
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Last day to submit prose (fiction, nonfiction) this quarter! Send, send, send!
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Next month we'll be taking chapbook & full-length submissions of poetry!
@TaylorByas3
&
@adrianf
will be making chapbook selections to top off our 2023 calendar ✨ you'll have one month to send us something!
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In other news, the support for
@TaylorByas3
's chapbook Bloodwarm has been huge, and we're low on inventory. Which is just to say a third print run is happening 💕
Again, thanks for supporting Taylor & our press! We'll be having a huge sale on all our books next week! Stay tuned!
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Really appreciate all the manuscript submissions! We've started going through them and will do our best to get decisions out within 4 months. Our open reading period is open for 3 more weeks!
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Issue 10 is live!
Huge thank you to our contributors, our team, and all the folks who support us. We're so grateful and SO excited to send another issue out into the world.
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Get those microchaps ready! We're holding a contest!
@LannieStabile
will choose one manuscript to receive a prize of $150 + 150 limited print run! Subs open in June!
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Can't believe it's already December! We're looking at chapbook and full-length manuscripts in poetry this month :)
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Omg I forgot thank to our cover artist
@TaylorByas3
for designing her book cover 😅😂 she's so talented!!!
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We're starting the week with a
#Giveaway
! If you haven't got a copy of
@bluejayverses
latest chapbook love letters from a burning planet yet all you have to do is like this post to enter ✨ winners will be chosen tomorrow noon EST!
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What do we mean when we say narrative?
Glad you asked.
Narrative text conveys an active experience--movement, use of bodies (literal choreography), dialogue, characters DO-ing stuff.
We get excited about stories that begin with narrative.
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Small Masthead changes: Nick Soluri & Hannah Grieco (
@writesloud
) join the team as poetry readers and Adrian Frandle (
@adrianf
) moves to Acquisitions Editor, Poetry ✨
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Reminder that we'll send you books to review & even help you find spaces to place them!
Also, feel free to ask about works in progress! We've likely got digital copies ready to send out too!
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We're opening for poetry and fiction on 10/1! The next round of submissions will be for our January 2022 issue. All proceeds from this issue's subs will go to our wonderful editors. ✨
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Adding a quick fiction pop-up window, ONE DAY ONLY, because of a last-minute withdrawal of an accepted piece (~sigh~). Send us your most print-ready and strange work!
BOLDED magazines pay writers.
Also there are actually 40 mags closing for submissions this week, we just couldn’t squeeze them all on the image without causing you eye strain.
They’re all right here though:
#writingcommunity
#submissioncall
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We're open for poetry and art submissions for two more weeks!
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Issue 16 is Coming Soon!
By the numbers:
328 fiction subs, 5 accepted (1.5%),
111 nonfiction subs, 3 accepted (2.7%),
477 poetry subs, 13 accepted (2.7%).
Prose (fiction, nonfiction) is open for submissions this month!
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While we are open for regular subs we decided we also wanted to create a special issue to help expedite rehoming pulled pieces from Hobart. This is an open genre call that we'll be looking at this weekend.
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Issue Eighteen of Variant is now live!
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Fiction is open! Nonfiction is open!
And, due to an uptick in submissions right before the prize was to close, we've extended the Pizza Prize until the end of the weekend to give everyone a few more days to get stuff in. 🍕
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We're giving away digital & physical copies of our upcoming full-length collection, Earthly Gods by
@jessnirvanapoet
, in exchange for some early reviews! Shoot us a message if interested!
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#Giveaway
our first fiction microchap
#TheHistoryofMountains
is now out and we're beyond excited to share it with y'all! Like this post for a chance to win a copy ✨ we'll pick 5 winners by noon EST tomorrow!
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Q: I thought prose and poetry were open in separate months...?
A: We changed it up. All together now.
Q: Are you still going to publish four times a year?
A: No, dropping to twice a year. Send while you can!
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Issue 11 is in the works and will be out next week!
Fiction & nonfiction subs for issue 12 are open now and will open for poetry & art subs next month!
We've also got two cover reveals coming soon!
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We'll send you books to review! Glass Essays is already up on our website for preorder and the other two will be soon! Shoot us a DM or email for more info!
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#CoverReveal
To Fall Fable 1/1/2021
@AliceWickenden
We are so excited to share this chapbook with you all! Alice's poetry is exquisite, elegant, and powerfully written but don't just take our word for it--look at these blurbs!💕
#NowAvailableForPreorder
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We are committed to fostering safe spaces in all that we enter and do not support or condone racism, harassment, or any harm targeted towards others. We have cut ties with one of our editors whose actions have betrayed this and apologize that this comes late for those affected.
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Yes, Issue 19 is here!
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Happy Sunday! Issue 16 is now live ✨
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All chapbooks are pay what you want! Add some to your Sealey challenge stack today!
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Contributor copies are going in the mail shortly! 🌟 Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue! You can read it here:
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We are looking for more visual art submissions! Please send us your original photographs, collages, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and hybrid text-visual art creations. We would love to consider art that addresses climate, humanity, forced migration, war and peace.
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Happy Monday poets & artists :) submissions for our next issue are now open
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We are reading submissions for issue 5 and catching up on nonfic mss submissions this week! Send something our way 🙂
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Just wanted to thank everyone for sending in such incredible work, always. If it weren't for an issue budget we'd be taking on so much more. Magazine subs will open again next month for fiction & nonfiction and in the following month for poetry & art. Keep sending it!
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Y'all sent us so much poetry and fiction for issue 6 that we're having an extension for nonfiction & art submissions next month through the 11th ✨Look for us on Submittable!
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We're not interested in that whole genre fiction versus literature discourse. Another word for niche is rut, so whatever. We want to be suspended, rapt, awed by beauty.
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#CoverReveal
!!! Coming this September, Earthly Gods by Jessica Nirvana Ram ✨ This is a book about expectations and the search for the definition of holy. Preorders to open soon. Cover Design by Hafsa Khan 😍
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"It Was Never Supposed to Be Ours" by
@BenKlinePoet
first published in A&U Magazine, the title poem to their full-length collection, forthcoming this Winter and available to preorder
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You've noticed, of course, that we've reduced our publication frequency to twice a year.
So, yeah. Issue 19 is an event!
Coming soon...
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Just a reminder that we're open for nonfiction & art subs this month!
We'll be open for poetry & fiction subs again in October and chapbooks in all genres in January.
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#Giveaway
🚨 We're sending out two copies of
#TheWaterCycle
by
@bethgordonpoet
and all you have to do is like this post to enter! Can you tell we're excited to share this book with y'all? Winners announced tomorrow noon EST!
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We're reading submissions! And still trying to figure out how to best utilize our submission cap. Our queue is filled but we'd still like to see more cnf & art submissions!
We'll have a short extension for these to consider for issue 6 next month!
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Can we put together a thread of free nominations lit mags can send out? Such as Best of the net and pushcart. Don't want to miss an opportunity to support writers!
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Just wanted to say our open mss call is not a contest and it is free to submit. Selections made from this call will be pursued for publication next year. We're excited to see what everyone has been working on!
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