Exciting news! EPOCH Magazine is now open for submissions!

And I'm as pleased as punch to be its first-ever guest editor in Fiction! 📚 Please spread the word that we are now open for submissions, and don't forget to send in your stories, poetry, or art!

What is EPOCH?

EPOCH is one of the most prestigious and widely anthologized literary magazines in America. Under the helm of its most recent-editor-in-chief, the late (and dearly beloved) Michael Koch, EPOCH won the first ever O. Henry Prize for best publisher of fiction and best literary magazine in America, an award given in later years to publications such as The New Yorker; it has had its work reproduced in every major literary anthology in the United States. EPOCH featured the first published fiction of many noteworthy writers, including Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, as well as early stories from emerging writers like Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates.

EPOCH is published biannually and is currently seeking works of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and graphic art.

How do I submit?

Full submission guidelines can be found here. EPOCH accepts both electronic submissions via Submittable (August and January only) as well as mail submissions (August through March).

EPOCH also pays its contributors! Payment is currently from $100 to $500 for poetry, prose, or comics, depending on length, and 350$ for cover art!

As the guest editor this year and assistant editor in the past, I can attest that every submission sent to EPOCH is read and considered extremely carefully. Please, send in your works of fiction, poetry, and art!!! I am personally especially excited to see works of speculative fiction, weird or magical realist fiction, and anything else that sparks the imagination, but all genres and styles are welcome! 👀

And if you've never submitted your work to a literary publication and don't know where to start, feel free to check out this blog! I originally started it to answer people's questions about the writing and/or publication process, and to give them tips on things I had insight on as an editor. These posts here, here, and here are good places to start if you need help! I'm rooting for you! ⭐️

Literary Recycling for Postdigital Readers [CFP]

First International Conference “Literary Recycling for Postdigital Readers.” A Digital Epistemology for the Recycling of Literatures?: Digital Literary Studies under DebateFaculty of Philology, Complutense University of Madrid, September 26 and 27, 2024Organised by LEETHI GroupCoordinators: Miriam Llamas, Amelia Sanz Keynote speakers: Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) and Rabea Kleymann…

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Submission Spotlight: Blackbird

A lot of literary journals have closed until fall. This gives us months to dust off old stories and see if we can whisk them up into something tasty. When that happens, the online journal Blackbird is a great place to send stuff. #writing #publishing

Okay, so the bad news is that a lot of literary magazines have closed their doors until fall. The good news? You’ve got a few months to pull up that piece you’d given up on, dust it off, and see what you can make of it. If it fluffs up into something pretty tasty, Blackbird might be the literary magazine for you. Since 2001 (or 2002—different places on their website name different founding…

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Today's Seal Is: Walking. Where? Who Knows. Do You?

The Trying to Be a Published Poet starter pack

Me to my short stories I submitted just now.

Glunk from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

horse wearing a pikachu costume in what looks like somebodys driveway it may be the middle of the day but perhaps this horse is doing some very early trick or treating or maybe even a cosplay just for fun either way this horse is definitely dressed up

In a movie I watched, a girl went under a goth transformation and changed her pronouns from she/her to oh/fuck/she.

I check my Submittable like it’s the fucking stock market

Submission Spotlight: The Chicago Review

Submission Spotlight this month at The Trailer Park MFA: The Chicago Review. They've been around since 1946, are affiliated with the University of Chicago, and will definitely bump up your rep—but you won't earn a dime. Your call. #publishing #writerslife

Their door is open for fiction and poetry submissions until June 15 (nonfiction submissions are open year-round), so if you’re looking to publish a story, now’s the time! The Chicago Review accepts work through their Submittable page, where you can also set up a free Submittable account if you haven’t got one already. The downside? They charge a steeper-than-industry-standard submission fee of…

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Today's Seals Are: Gleep Glorp? 👽

Back again destiel vs dan and phil

✨️ Congratulations, Dan and Phil, you are the Winners of this Poll! ✨️

Classic Literature Sexyperson Tournament; Round 1

propaganda:

Quincey:

quincey deserves #1 sexyman prize. he is the token cowboy. in a gothlit book. his first instinct when in danger in to randomly shoot through windows to (scare the shit out of) protect his friends. he decided he would literally die for a group of people he met like 3 hours ago because they seemed nice enough. he's texan for christ's sake. tropes: angst (dead), bait, distinctive voice, LGTBQ+ coded (dracula polycule is canon bram told me so), himbo (-ish), well dressed (cowboy).

Dracula:

owwsaawoagghb. older gentleman who is very regal and polite and is a fucking vampire how much sexier can you get

Obv everyone knows vampire sexy. The sensuality of drinking blood is *chef's kiss*. But I just really wanted an excuse to share this one thing, that isn't even related directly to the novel. So, my junior year of high school we read Dracula, and then our class went on a field trip to see a local theatre group perform the Dracula stage play-- and EVERY TIME Dracula came on stage, his neckline would progressively dip Lower and Lower (like. Comedically so) until he was soooo close to showing just straight up tiddie, but still juuuust barely not-- the tease was immaculate and istg it was doing Something for everyone in the audience. It was transcendent. An awakening. Even all these years later when my old high school friends and I bring it up, the only detail we can remember from that performance is Count Dracula's plunging neckline and that's Gotta count for something right