Variant Literature
Variant Literature is a small press and magazine.
http://variantlit.com/
Next issue coming June 2025 ✨️
@emhall47.bsky.social
Writer, sewist, knitter, natural dyer, baker. English PhD, despite being terrible at spelling.
@fiddlehd.bsky.social
The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal. Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025! https://thefiddlehead.ca
@ogre.red
Red Ogre Review is an indie press for poetry, music, and art based in California and the UK. We're fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for nonprofit activities and a member of CLMP. Subs open! https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: [email protected] | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@christopherallen.bsky.social
Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
@lunareyhall.com
i write queer and spooky stuff 🍉 NO MATTER THE DIAGNOSIS out now minneapolis lunareyhall.com #whereisBellaRiley
@lastsyllablelit.bsky.social
A Longform Literary Journal. Issue III is out NOW! Read it at: lastsyllablelit.com
@tinymolecules.bsky.social
A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space. https://www.tinymolecules.com/ EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
@phoebejournal.bsky.social
A journal of literature and art published by George Mason University. Submissions are currently closed. https://linktr.ee/phoebejournal
@ironoakeditions.bsky.social
Iron Oak Editions is an independent book publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. https://www.ironoakeditions.com/
@awwlitmag.bsky.social
Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
@midamericanreview.bsky.social
Publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews since 1980. Based at Bowling Green State University. Submit: https://casit.bgsu.edu/midamericanreview/submit/
@courtludwick.bsky.social
writer, artist, teacher person author of THESE STRANGE BODIES (ELJ 2024) eic @brokenantlermag she/they www.courtlud.com
@jeannemariefleming.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Editor. Mentor for incarcerated citizens. Here for all of it. jeannemariefleming.com
@westtradereview.bsky.social
Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC. https://westtradereview.com/
@duotrope.com
Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com @duosuma.com is our submission manager.
@dsrandol.bsky.social
she/her/they • hardcoreEnthusiast 🦦 • Fool POET fighting complacency⚡ • My published work is on https://linktr.ee/dsrandol 🌳 • PLEASE talk to me about birds🐦
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
Writer. Doofus. Old man hooper. Pretty much anything you want to know is at http://mitchnobis.com. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, dog, or whoever. Also: WNS: @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social NAWP: @notatawp.bsky.social
@sundresspub.bsky.social
Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. See more poetry at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
@jenniferfliss.bsky.social
Author of AS IF SHE HAD A SAY and THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL * www.jenniferflisscreative.com
@readinstead.bsky.social
teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
@josephlezza.com
Writer. Worrier. Full-time coffee chugger. Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist. “I’m Never Fine,” a memoir, OUT NOW from Vine Leaves Press 🇮🇹 🔗: https://linktr.ee/josephlezza
@the-ethelzine.bsky.social
Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018. www.ethelzine.com 🇵🇸
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social
New book, "The Museum of Future Mistakes," Fall 2025 from BOA Editions. Author of "The Last Dinosaurs of Portland," "Fruit Rot," "Edge of the Known Bus Line" & "Messiah Tortoise." Editor at @conium.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 they/them. http://jamesrgapinski.com
@susanlleary.bsky.social
Poet | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press) | A BUFFET TABLE FIT FOR QUEENS (Washburn Prize, Small Harbor Publishing) + 2 📚| Mayah 🐶 | www.susanlleary.com
@stevenespadaw.bsky.social
writer | Late to the Search Party (Scribner, ‘25) | your fat tío | poet laureate of madison, wi
@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Lit Agent Rosecliff Literary, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
@blacklawrence.bsky.social
New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
@the-engine-idling.bsky.social
the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. www.engineidling.net EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
@emilyrinkema.bsky.social
Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site
@maraleegrayson.bsky.social
Nonprofit | Former Tenured Faculty, Comp/Rhet | Author of Books on Racism & Antisemitism in Education | Poet | Brooklyn-bred (She/her)
@melostrom.bsky.social
Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
@dcazdn.bsky.social
New Poetry Book: DM for signed copies-- https://www.davidcazden.net/books/ https://linktr.ee/davidcazden New Republic, Passages North, Rattle, McNeese Review, etc. Former poetry editor, Miller's Pond.
@thom803.bsky.social
Lawyer / Writer. Published in Ploughshares, The Sun, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asia Literary Review, American Literary Review and Variant Lit.
@taylorbyas.bsky.social
PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her www.taylorbyas.com
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
writer / edits fiction for @thedodgemag.bsky.social & bruises for @bruisermag.com https://linktr.ee/addisonzeller
@haydensferryreview.bsky.social
Founded in 1986, HFR is an international semi-annual literary journal edited by graduate students in the MFA program at Arizona State University. https://haydensferryreview.com/
@abbiedollwrites.bsky.social
writer who writes things. yeehaw! Fiction Editor for Identity Theory Words in places like | Door is A Jar | 3:AM Magazine | The Pinch | etc. proudly queer & neurodivergent.
@kimberlywolf.bsky.social
Southern poet. Really good at driving long distances. Lit major (derogatory) My chapbook “How the Frogs Get Married” is available for preorder through Bullshit Lit! You can see my little website here: www.kimberlywolfpoet.com
@colourofpoetry.bsky.social
Author of The Places We Empty (Kelsay Books), The Jolt and Breath Ablaze: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, Volumes I and II (Bottlecap Press), Rooming with Elephants (Kelsay Books, 2025) 🏳️🌈💜https://www.julieweisspoet.com
@ericadawsonpoet.bsky.social
Poet, educator, and mental health advocate living in Maryland
@rich-jordan.bsky.social
Poet, mathematician, data scientist. Poems published or forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, Rattle (Rattle Prize Finalist), Gargoyle, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, New York Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sho. Assoc. Editor @ Thimble Lit.
@jmcm.bsky.social
IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
@mynachang.bsky.social
📖 THE POTENTIAL OF RADIO AND RAIN ✏️ Locus Rec List, Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction 💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading ⚡Electric Sheep SFWA, HWA, SFPA https://mynachang.com
@travisflatt.bsky.social
Writer. Recent Words in HAD, Disappointed Housewife, Tiny Molecules, New Flash Fiction Review, others… see—> https://travisflattblog.com/
@sfreligh.bsky.social
Writer and swimmer. Books: HEREAFTER (2024); A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN and DEAR YOU (2023) ; WE (2021) & SAD MATH (2015); Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.