As strange and funny as always!

While you check out the latest issue, know that Defenestration is once again open to short story and poetry submissions. Find all the details here: bit.ly/105Enuu

Haven't done this in ages:

Everyone go get a free PDF of anything I've ever published, magazine issue or book. Use code FREEPDF to zero out your bill @ checkout. Choose any PDF at StanchionZine.com/shop (scroll waaaay down to see all the PDFs.

I'm so curious what you'll pick.

An odd choice, perhaps, but I wanted to see where it all started. I wish (hypocritically) that more editors wrote notes.

Submit to Stanchion on April 27. No fees, bit of cash.
www.stanchionzine.com/submissions

Juno by Trinity Richardson: February was concrete in its application; October was more theoretical. The cashier tells me kittens shouldn’t have cow’s milk. The bottle splatters against the pavement in a way that reminds me I don’t know what I’m doing. I keep her cradled to my chest hoping if she can hear my heartbeat she’ll know what I can’t say. The years wash over me—what feels like one is actually three. This is a confession. The powerline hums and I imagine an angel running through the wires. I imagine taking the train to work. I am afraid I will never know what has become of you. Or worse, what will become of us. I am lonely in a way I’ve never been, because this time there is no reason for it. I go to work. I pick up groceries. I make cheesecake and let her have a small bite. It’s not that good, but it keeps me busy and I like the way the cream tastes before I bake it. She likes it. She is fixated on fire and sometimes I forget to put a candle out of reach and she singes her fur. I always feel guilty. This is a confession.

Lovely doozy of a prose poem up this week. Find a cat, hold it, and read "Juno" by Trinity Richardson together.

Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/4-14-26

Excited to announce that our team has grown even more!!! So thrilled to welcome M. J. Young, Lillie E. Franks, and Cameron Vernali to the small but mighty Dishsoap family :)

ISSUE TWENTY-TWO Variant Literature Issue 22 (Winter 2026) features poetry from T. De Los Reyes, Kathy Jiang, Arielle Kaplan, Grace H. Zhou, and Jeff Whitney, and more. The issue also includes prose by Joey Hedger,…

Open 2 more days! Send us your prose with layered meaning and metaphor. We're especially drawn to stories with a strong voice.

Check out issue 22 for examples of prose we love!

variantlit.com/issue-twenty...

Closing soon! Fiction and speculative categories close March 29

Meanwhile, in the queue @variantlit.bsky.social, we seek narrative long-form fiction (see past issues for our editorial sensibility), flash
prose, and micro (themed) series. Send us your beauties, the weirds, and the aches!

POEM 320 Self-Portrait as Funeral Star by Tina Kelley (@tinakelley.bsky.social)

As you file in take a packet
of forget-me-not seeds, feel
bad if you forget to plant them.
While I’m at it, bury me how I
sleep, tummy down, cozy, or
I’ll be restless, haunt you all.

stonecirclereview.com/self-portrait

One Fall Review Pro Wrestling Poetry

onefallreview.com Submit!

POEM 319 Heterodox Ritual by Candice M. Kelsey @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social

Have you also watched
sudden rains scream
staccato loneliness
out your kitchen window
heard the giggles of
children fumbling
in the garden
felt earth’s plates
crack for your attention?

stonecirclereview.com/heterodox-ritual

I have a poem out in Red Eft Review today
(with thanks to RER Editor Corey Cook)

It's an occasional poem for National Poetry Month cleverly titled "National Poetry Month"

redeftreview.blogspot.com/2026/03/nati...

Submit – Rust & Moth A Journal Of Poetry And The Arts

Today (3/20/26) is the last day to submit poems for our summer issue! These pages are waiting for you and they're already glowing solstice-bright.

rustandmoth.com/submit/

Thumbnail image reading "Red Ogre Review | June Issue | Open For Submissions."

Our June issue is open for submissions!

Poetry, music, and visual art:

redogrereview.submittable.com/submit

Don't mind me I'm over here 😭

🚨 e(i #9 CALL FOR SUBS! 🚨

Our 9th issue is all about 🌈 CO-LLAB-OR-ATIONS!!

There's NO THEME / subject restrictions. The only rule is that the work submitted must be a collaborative effort!

🚨 Fill out our Google form IF YOU NEED A PARTNER: buff.ly/OtPlTWY

Deadline April 30

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Ok, library geek out moment:

My book from @variantlit.bsky.social - IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE - just had it's first consortia request! It's headed to a public library outside of Cleveland. The student workers just ran back to my desk to show me!

*hollers in circ stat*

Dog Museum Visit the post for more.

"When he grows up he wants to be a constructionworker, and then, says M., he’s going to build
a dog museum."

"Dog Museum" by @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social

variantlit.com/dog-museum/

Today, we celebrate our contributors for Issue Three: Bloom, out April 1.

The Bloomin' Onion A Literary Magazine with Layers

Have something looking for a home? You can send it our way!

We’re open for poetry, short stories, flash fiction, and longform fiction—plus we have our flash fiction contest open right now.

Check out our site: www.thebloominonion.com

The one and only time we accept poems for Afterimages this year and it closes at midnight today eastern

Grateful to @leepottspoet.bsky.social for believing in this little guy!

The Gunshine State Visit the post for more.

"I’ve always had a slight obsession with airplanes and hotels, regardless of where they are. They’re like stamps, identical anywhere you go."

"The Gunshine State" by @joeyhedger.bsky.social

variantlit.com/the-gunshine...

In case you missed it this morning...

Variant Lit @variantlit.bsky.social is accepting poems for a few more weeks. Please send us your work! We love a variety (it's in the name)! so send us your narrative, your lyrical, your sonnets, your funny, your quiet, your heartbreaking. We reply quickly; we pay; we nominate!

psst...we might announce our April issue's theme on Sunday! Get ready! 🥄