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Huge thanks to @epochliterary.com & to editor (and freaking amazing writer) @jrobertlennon.com for giving it such an awesome home.

Writers! We're now finished with our first round reads for volume 74, issue 1. If you snail-mail us something now, we won't read it until February. And anything left over from earlier this year will either be rejected or moved onto Submittable next week. Thank you for your work and your patience!

Micaela Kaibni Raen has made a video reading of her poem “tessellated earth” from Volume 73, number 2...check it out on the blog

Something you may not know, all our issues since volume 54 are available as high-quality PDFs to read on your tablet or e-ink device, for just a few bucks. If you want to support us, this is a great way...these are terrific magazines at an unbeatable price, and you get them immediately

Something you may not know, all our issues since volume 54 are available as high-quality PDFs to read on your tablet or e-ink device, for just a few bucks. If you want to support us, this is a great way...these are terrific magazines at an unbeatable price, and you get them immediately

Really honored to have my story “Deep Time” in the latest edition of the amazing @epochliterary.com

Psssst epoch.submittable.com/submit

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!

Got a new story coming out in the great @epochliterary.com

Check out @epochliterary.com V73 No.2 which includes my short story “Little Wow” (link in comments)

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...

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

I got a lil something in this one!

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!

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...

...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."

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."

...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.

"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."

This is well worth a read even if you’re already convinced LLMs are a boondoggle

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.

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."

...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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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

"Danger Music", a poem by Aldo Amparán https://poems.com/poem/danger-music/ via @epochliterary.com and @poetrydaily.bsky.social

Writing this unhinged and personal body horror story healed a little something in me. Very grateful to @epochliterary.com and especially @jrobertlennon.com for embracing the weirdness and editing with such kindness. Print and online copies now available at epochliterary.com.

Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!

Subs open for 73.2 on January 1!

Our Spring 2026 issue will be out in February! It's absolutely packed, and has a special section of translated poetry, prose poetry, and fiction.

...and assistant fiction editor Sijing Yang interviews poet and essayist Ishion Hutchinson. "There’s probably one corner of heaven where there's no distinction between writers and poets and dramatists and painters."

Today we have TWO new interviews with poets up on the blog. First, assistant poetry editor Gerardo Azpiri Iglesias interviews Richie Hofmann. "As a poet I am creating an aesthetic world."

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The answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You

Today on the blog, a new review of Domenica Martinello's poetry collection GOOD WANT, from assistant poetry editor Bridget Huh: poetry "that knows just the right things to ask and not ask, that has the immense and unknowable power to forgive." www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...

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Thank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!

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Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com