Variant Literature

Variant Literature is excited to announce Write Weirder Fiction: On Leaning into Your Own Strangeness, a free fiction workshop led by Brandon Ahmad Haffner. Register here.

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In Terrestrial, Suzy Eynon renders the Arizona desert as both landscape and signal, a place where loneliness sits just beneath the surface and connection often feels out of reach. Set in the shadow of the Phoenix Lights, the novella follows Daisy, a teenage girl sear...

Variant Literature is excited to announce the inaugural Variant Lit Poetry Prize. We welcome submissions from both emerging and established poets, with a focus on work that is voice-driven and singular to the author. Winners will receive a cash prize and be published online in a special Variant Poetry Prize folio, with an introduction from guest judge Todd Dillard.