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Hello, a couple of notes about submissions! First, we are getting a lot of snail-mail subs without SASE included, and also a lot of emails asking why we haven't responded to subs sent last year. These are correlated! We really need the SASE or a stamped postcard if you want a response.
We have reached our paid submissions cap for issue 74.1! The free weekend, however, is still to come. I wonder if it will be the weekend soon. I wonder if that will be the one...
We are just shy of 100 subs away from our cap...this is the fastest we've ever experienced. If you want to submit for 74.1, today's the day...or you could check back to see if next weekend is the free weekend!
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 2mo agoWe are already more than halfway to our cap for this cycle, so if you have something for us, send it along! The free weekend (coming soon...maybe?) has its own separate cap, so, don't worry that you might miss it. Although that will also fill up fast...
I wrote this when my twins were 4 months old, writing with with a blanket over the computer screen to keep the room dark while they slept. Thanks so much to @epochliterary.com for picking up this story.
We are already more than halfway to our cap for this cycle, so if you have something for us, send it along! The free weekend (coming soon...maybe?) has its own separate cap, so, don't worry that you might miss it. Although that will also fill up fast...
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We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...
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Check out my story “Peacebone.” It’s got brothers on a road trip, mystical visions, the afterlife, and possibly Taylor Swift
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 2mo agoVolume 73, Number 2, our fall issue, is out! Subscribers and contributors should be receiving their copies soon; click through to buy a print copy for ten bucks or a PDF for seven. www.epochliterary.com/shop
Volume 73, Number 2, our fall issue, is out! Subscribers and contributors should be receiving their copies soon; click through to buy a print copy for ten bucks or a PDF for seven. www.epochliterary.com/shop
As an alarming number of writers have already noticed, we are open for submissions to issue 74.1! Subs continue through August but we are racing towards our paid sub cap of 1250. Send us something good!
EPOCH Magazine Submission Manager
We are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, and a portion of each fee, after processing costs, is donated to the Cornell Prison Educa...
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Smart Search List of the Day
The Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Literary Flash Fiction feat. @epochliterary.com @theiowareview.bsky.social @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social @littleengines.bsky.social et al. https://duotrope.com/search/smart/fiction/paying-literary-flash-fiction-dtQTdu2X
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...and here's a new craft piece from assistant poetry editor Samantha Samakande. "If listlessness or boredom threatens to make a meal of you, stare into its dank, gaping mouth, and even if it means letting it have its course."
One Poet’s Pep Talk to Herself — EPOCH
Rembrandt, Seated Young Woman Reading, c. 1639-40 Courage might mean sitting in solitude for hours, with nothing to do but have faith that somewhere on a back burner in your mind, an idea isbrewing....
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Two new posts up on the blog today, as we prepare for our August submission period! First, assistant fiction editor Fia Zhang Swanson interviews novelist Banana Yoshimoto. "Writing novels is neither fun nor therapy for me."
Interview: Banana Yoshimoto — EPOCH
“If you depict the sensory world deeply enough, there is a place where everyone stands on the same horizon. There, the reader is alone, yet sharing the same sensations as the author. This can ease the...
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...and check out our homepage for a look at the cover and TOC of our new issue, 73.2, out in a couple of weeks www.epochliterary.com
We're happy to announce this year's Michael Koch Memorial Editors in poetry and fiction, Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O'Fallon Price! They'll be working on 74.1 and 74.2 over the next year. Click through for more info about these great writers.
The 2026-27 Koch Memorial Editors: Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O’Fallon Price — EPOCH
Read about the 2026-27 Koch Memorial Editors, Tacey M. Atsitty and Adam O’Fallon Price
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"I will never use it, of course, because I like making things, and I don’t hate myself, even when the things I make don’t turn out so good. If you hate yourself and everything you do, you will love AI, because it negates the self, and when you use it, you are doing nothing."
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 3mo ago73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.
This is well worth a read even if you’re already convinced LLMs are a boondoggle
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · 3mo ago73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.
73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.
On AI, in EPOCH and Elsewhere — EPOCH
Human beings are made to be moved. We respond to patterns. AI generates patterns. When there is nothing of substance there, we use our imagination to fill in whatever will give us what we need. It’s n...
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Today on the blog: assistant editor Hafsa Zulfiqar interviews poet I. S. Jones about her new book BLOODMERCY: "I have always loved declarative lines in a poem, especially as a woman, there is a very strong and commanding power and being able to say something and then it is so."
Interview: I. S. Jones — EPOCH
This past November, I had the pleasure of speaking to the amazing I.S. Jones over the phone. I first discovered Jones in the summer of 2023 when I had the opportunity to study under her for a five-wee...
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...and here's a very funny new half-memoir, half-craft-essay, "Jumpsuits," from Otis Fuqua: "We are all, always, writing the characters of ourselves."
Jumpsuits — EPOCH
For me, a masc man with a masc background and a masc wardrobe, a women’s jumpsuit is a sartorial leap. It shows my butt more than I’m used to, suggests I am perhaps more genderqueer than I usually am,...
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Two new blog posts up today as we prepare to open for subs in August! First, Zibusiso Mpofu writes about Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera: "A woman of secrets, she never disclosed anything to anyone."
Re-Aliving Yvonne Vera: A Review of Petal Thoughts, a Biography of Yvonne Vera by Her Mother Ericah Gwetai — EPOCH
She could not write the way she wanted to while abroad. She needed to be home, close to her people. In many ways one cannot tell the story of Vera without talking about the city from which she hails, ...
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New post up on the blog: Fia Swanson's excellent review of Katie Kitamura's novel Audition: "To Kitamura, our agency—and the agency of her characters—is mostly an illusion."
Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura — EPOCH
To Kitamura, our agency—and the agency of her characters—is mostly an illusion. “It is proof of the lulling quality of narrative,”Kitamura has said , that we think we have a great deal of choices. He...
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We've just added Timi Sanni's lovely review of Gbenga Adesina's collection Death Does Not End at the Sea. Timi: "For the speaker of Adesina’s poems, there is a silence in the language of the dead that must ring out in the song of the living."
The Memory of Water: a Review of Gbenga Adesina’s Death Does Not End at the Sea — EPOCH
The images evoke a profound sense of displacement that unmistakably recalls the Middle Passage—the forced transatlantic crossing that carried millions of enslaved Africans into the Americas. That hist...
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New on the blog: Lara Stecewycz's interview with Askold Melnyczuk: "A poem must carry the nourishment in every line—even if the morsel of meaning can't itself be contained by a single line or stanza. The whole must feel somehow inevitable."
Interview: Askold Melnyczuk — EPOCH
“When I was about nine I contracted an illness—eventually diagnosed as pericarditis (water around the heart) which kept me from attending school for over two years. […] This unstructured time gave me ...
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Our apologies, we aren't tabling at AWP this year due to a bureaucratic snafu. But the new issue is up for sale, PDF or print! And if you see one of our editors wandering tableless around the hall, give 'em a high five
Volume 73, Number 1 — EPOCH
Volume 73, Number 1. D.M. Aderibigbe, Hussain Ahmed, Miriam Åkervall, Amir Ahmadi Arian, Jill Barrie, Alexandra Bernhardt, Shlagha Borah, TR Brady, Hedgie Choi, Brock Clarke, Kami Enzie, Ana Emilia Fe...
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"Danger Music", a poem by Aldo Amparán https://poems.com/poem/danger-music/ via @epochliterary.com and @poetrydaily.bsky.social
