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In Justin Taroli's “Dry Creek,” a gay bee keeper grapples with grief, devotion, and the gradual loss of insect populations. According to our editors, Taroli's story is a masterclass in quiet tension—read it now: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/dry...
We’re proud to announce our 2027 nominations for the Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, O. Henry, and Puschart prizes. Read these incredible writers and all our favorite pieces by getting your very own Epiphany subscription, linked in our bio.
Thanks to everyone who packed the house for our Fall Reading on Friday. We’re especially grateful for (and awed by) the night’s show-stopping readers: Imogen Osborne, Nita Noveno, Ileen Park, Nora Rose Tomas, and Joana Urtasun. Wine and comforts courtesy of Liz’s Book Bar. 📸: Lydia Tesfaye
You’ve got until 10/15 to submit to our Fresh Voices Fellowship, which gives one early-career writer of color $2,000, a spot in our print issue, and a year working with our editors: epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
This Friday, 7PM. Our fall reading features excerpts from Nita Noveno’s prize-winning memoir Mud on the Moon, along with new work from Imogen Osborne. Fiction by Ileen Park, queer poetry by Nora Rose Tomas, and translation by Joana Urtasun. RSVP: partiful.com/e/RJJiPl3Vxu...
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Our editors were wowed by Stephanie Macias’s story “Something Terrible,” a stunning, hilarious reflection on Latine storytelling and racial bias in publishing (werewolves with hands might also be involved). Now free to read on our Substack: substack.com/@epiphanylit...
aah… my back hurts from carrying all these precious opportunities to your timeline. you’re welcome, by the way
Come to our fall reading at Liz's Book Bar on 10/9. Enjoy new work by 2026 Breakout Prize Winner Imogen Osborne. Excerpts from Nita Noveno's award-winning memoir. Fiction by Ileen Park, translation by Joana Urtasun, and poems by Nora Rose Tomas. RSVP: partiful.com/e/RJJiPl3Vxu...
David Sheynberg brings us gay longing, failed Broadway boys, and klezmer band intruige in “Unveiling,” our latest piece of fiction. Experience the “omnipresent ache” that resonated with our editors: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/unv...
Submissions to our Fresh Voices Fellowship are open through October 15. Apply, learn more about the requirements, and meet past fellows: epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
Congratulations to our current Fresh Voices Fellow, Julia Hou!🥳🩷
Ploughshares Literary Journal@pshares.bsky.social · last mo.We're excited to announce the winners of the 2026 Emerging Writers' Contest! 🎉 Subscribe to Ploughshares today to reserve our Winter 2026-27 issue, which will feature the winning pieces.
Breakout Prize Finalist Perry Levitch unpacks metaphor and motherhood in “Ragged Point Inn,” a poem that’s stuck with our editors. Read it here: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/rag...
"Mom turned her skin transparent so I could see down to her aching bones. I held on for as long as I could. Maybe that made me a foolish kid, but I wouldn’t have wanted her to change." Gorgeous new fiction in @epiphanylit.bsky.social from Sammi Chiyao: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/hea...
Heaven is a Place in West Palm Beach, a story by Sammi Chiyao — Epiphany Magazine
I breathed through the tube and didn’t die, and finally I looked down and saw them. All these small fish streaking by, silvery and orange and pink, hermit crabs scuttling around the rocks, tufts of se...
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With “Heaven is a Place in West Palm Beach,” Breakout Prize Finalist Sammi Chiyao weaves a story for all the families that are deemed “too much.” Read our editor’s notes on what grabbed our attention, and the full story here: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/hea...
Thank us later for this reading list of piercing short story collections, all published this year from former Epiphany contributors, including @patrickobrienstrickland.com
From cursed Playboy mansions to schoolyard shitpits to salmon canneries, our latest issue can come with you everywhere: www.epiphanymagazine.org/store/p/prin...
Wondering what stands out to our editors? Read our editor’s notes on "Elegy,” a poem by Breakout Prize Finalist Carolene Kurien: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/ele...
An idyllic swim in the river. A father wielding an axe. A young boy’s crisis. For women in translation month, we offer you a shocking excerpt of “Death in Spring” by Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Martha Tennent from Catalan. Read it now on our Substack: epiphanyliterary.substack.com/p/death-in-s...
Death in Spring
by Mercè Rodoreda, translated from Catalan by Martha Tennent from our Winter/Spring 2011 Issue
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Join a live Q&A with our EIC @saralippmann.bsky.social, Editor @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social, and Becky Tuch from Lit Mag News on 8/27 at 2:30PM ET. This is your moment to ask about submissions, editing, and how lit mags work—and registration is free. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Small mags are keeping literary community alive, one group think at a time. We can't wait to show you what our team's been working on this summer.
We've been publishing translations by women for 20+ years, and we've got something for everyone. Find out which of our all-time favorites you should read next. Cover Photo: Ghazaleh Alizadeh
In honor of the upcoming release of Mud on the Moon, Nita Noveno’s award-winning hybrid memoir, we are unlocking her CNF excerpt from our latest issue, where Noveno transports us to the salmon canneries of her native Southeast Alaska. www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/nit...
A View from the Cannery — Epiphany Magazine
My second home in the summer months: the cannery. Here, I stand in the damp cold, spoon in hand, scraping out the spinal bloodlines of salmon until the piles are gone.
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One of the best parts of our summer has been tuning into “good literary conversation,” as Laura Schmitt says in @electricliterature.com Here are some of the writing podcasts that have our team hooked and inspired.
To celebrate John Reed's new, riveting collection "Year of Valentines" (Spuyten Dyuvil), Mary Karmelek sits down with the renowned writer on crafting sonnets, the history of the NYC art scene, and whether puppets are capable of love. Check it out here: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/joh...
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