We're excited to share our summer issue! Issue 23 just landed and is full of new poetry and prose! variantlit.com/issue-twenty...
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Variant Literature Issue 23 (Spring 2026) features
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Issue 22 is officially here! We'll share highlights from these prose pieces and poems in the coming days. Check out the whole issue here: variantlit.com/issue-twenty...
ISSUE TWENTY-TWO
Variant Literature Issue 22 (Winter 2026) features poetry from T. De Los Reyes, Kathy Jiang, Arielle Kaplan, Grace H. Zhou, and Jeff Whitney, and more. The issue also includes prose by Joey Hedger,…
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God bless the people of Minneapolis, who are showing more courage and patriotism in the face of state violence than the fascists shooting at them could ever know. We should all show the same guts when our own turn comes around.
New from The Variety Pack! In conversation with Variant Editor @williamjcagle.bsky.social, @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social discusses the strange possibilities of fiction from their forthcoming collection The Museum of Future Mistakes from @boa-editions.bsky.social variantlit.com/the-museum-o...
The Museum of Future Mistakes: An Interview with James R. Gapinski
James R. Gapinski is the author of the novella Edge of the Known Bus Line, as well as the forthcoming short story collection, The Museum of Future Mistakes, which won the 2024 BOA Short Fiction Pri…
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Perhaps you need a little prose today? Read "Glass Eyes" by J.M. Vesper from issue 21 variantlit.com/glass-eyes/
Glass Eyes
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“Do you know the feeling? In a dark room, when your attention is elsewhere? Preoccupation wanes for a moment, and there he is. In the corner of your eye—the silhouette of a man.” Uncanny chills abound here, from Nathaniel Mumau: variantlit.com/the-man-in-t...
The Man in the Corner of My Eye
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“The things you say to me now are only for now. If you teach the bird, she will continue to say them for years to come.” All the ways love endures in this story by Thom Hawkins: variantlit.com/a-legacy-of-...
A Legacy of Birds
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@variantlit.bsky.social is open for submissions! We want to read your poems, stories, and micros! We're open until April 5th - We pay a $10 honorarium - We reply within 2 months (if not sooner) - We are excited to read your work! Submit: variantlit.com/submit/
Keep the submissions coming! We've received 214 submissions since we opened. This makes our weird hearts happy. #openforsubmissions #callsforwork
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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to ...
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