Sundress Publications is now open for applications for our fall editorial intern cohort! Applications due by May 17th for these volunteer positions! sundresspublications.com/openings/

New poem by editor Ashley Kim ♥️ thepostgradjournal.com/issue-6/ashley…

'I loved drawing the pollution sunsets that spread across Hudson-Union-Essex like frozen atomic bombs. A Secaucus sun chemical-pink as the cheery center in the tartufos I stole from the walk-in.' Love this journal and this writer!

listen this is the color of my soul

'I wonder, Do buffaloes have nightmares about horses, and do horses have nightmares about saddles? When I don’t speak, he commands the air, “Is this rejuvenating powder good for him?” His meaty fingers cup my shoulder...' Dan Crawley Variant Literature 👀🪄🩺

“It felt like relief for as long as the cold lasted. Pretending the impossible when a life plan was meaningless, really. When everything could be gone any second.”

Eileen Tomarchio in Variant Literature variantlit.com/cold-war-days/

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“Apparently, he notices the wild seesawing energy rise off my skin. ‘If he beefs up, he’ll find his footing. His attention can get back to charging ahead.’”

diagnoses, a jug and a hug from Dan Crawley in Variant Literature variantlit.com/kilter/

Come write with my on Friday morning! I’ve got a few prompts up my sleeve 👀

Thanks ⁦Variant Literature⁩ for publishing my poem about gun culture and its knack for ruining what it touches. This issue is full of weird and wonderful poems! variantlit.com/a-right-unexer…

Issue Eighteen of Variant is now live! variantlit.com/issue-eighteen/

Welcome back Jess, former WW coordinator!

Jessica Nirvana Ram is an Indo-Guyanese poet & essayist. MFA from UNCW & BA Susquehanna University. Work in Hayden's Ferry Review, + others. Jessica's debut poetry collection forthcoming with Variant Literature '24 & chapbook prismatica press - pre-order GFH today! 🔪🩸 '24

We're open for submissions for our summer issue! 🌟

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Really happy to see my story in the new issue of Variant Literature, birthed from a missed HAD call. A kick writing about another fraught time, the 80s, the global and the personal. Can't thank the remarkable Catherine Roberts enough for her grace and keen editorial eye. 🥰

So grateful to be a Variant editor. There are twelve amazing poems in this issue - take some time to read them! variantlit.com/issue-eighteen/

ahhhh so ecstatic seeing this flash out in the world, ty Variant Literature 🤠

'I don’t want him to take a bath with me, so I don’t know why I tell him to.' @afb16 in a great issue of Variant Literature !! variantlit.com/three-flash/

'There’s no one but us on the road, which would never happen because California has way too many people, too many cars, but in this other life, it does happen.'

These stunning pieces of writing by Allison Field Bell in Variant Literature 💙💙💙
variantlit.com/three-flash/

I was just on a panel of editors saying I'd love to see more CNF about work and here's a great story by Eileen Tomarchio in Variant Literature that starts, 'The first job I ever got fired from was waiting tables at the Plankboard Inn in Jersey City Heights, late winter…' Love it.

There are some LOVELY poems in here. Take a second on your Sunday and read!