EPOCH
Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com
- 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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- It’s back 😏 Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️ www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!
- Reposted by EPOCHThe answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You
- Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!
- If any editor out there is considering this deal with the devil, be sure to get express consent from every single one of your contributors, and be prepared to pay them every cent of whatever pittance you receive, because this work doesn't belong to us, it belongs to them.
- 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-...
- Reposted by EPOCHhey now
- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
- Reposted by EPOCHThank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!
- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
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- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
- Reposted by EPOCHThrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com
- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
- Reposted by EPOCHI'm so grateful to @epochliterary.com for publishing my essay "The Spider's Share" a few months ago, and now for this Pushcart nomination. And in such good company, too.
- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
- Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
- Reposted by EPOCHVery happy to have a poem in the gorgeous new issue of @epochliterary.com. Many thanks to the editors 💚
- Our 2025-26 Koch Memorial Editors are Emma Catherine Perry (poetry) and Daniel Peña (fiction). Click through to read about them!
- The Koch editors are named after Michael Koch, our longest-serving editor, who died in 2022.
- Proud to include @theonion.com alongside other distinguished literary publications in our office
- Here's a review of Patrick Nathan's novel THE FUTURE WAS COLOR, out now in paperback from Counterpoint Press, by assistant editor Miklos Mattyasovszky. "[A] tender triumph of a novel, which had wrapped me in its anxious arms from the very first line."
- It is a new semester and we have acquired this beautiful vault boy mug for our lego bouquet
- Also, electronic subs are open for one more week!
- That empty black splash image represents the unknowable void to which we are all doomed, and which is the great mystery at the heart of all artistic endeavor, ofc
- We've got a new interview today from outgoing poetry editor Michael Prior, who talks with poet Michael Nienow about his new collection, IF NOTHING, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. "As the past cannot be changed, I find the resistance of neat endings hopeful."
- COWBOY PARK, the new poetry collection from our contributor Eduardo Martínez-Leyva, just went into a second printing...check it out!
- Reposted by EPOCHI recently had an MRI during a week when my preschooler was listening to La Bamba on repeat. I'm so grateful to have a poem about that experience in the current issue of @epochliterary.com!
- Reposted by EPOCHReceived my contributor copy of @epochliterary.com latest issue with my story called Untouchables. Thanks to @jrobertlennon.com and other staff! www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...
- We've got a new blog piece from our correspondent KP Vogel, who attended a conference of Fernando Pessoa Scholars last year. "If Pessoa’s author was God, that author might merely be the creation of yet another Author, farther removed, and so on. Pessoas all the way up, so to speak."
- People are asking about the free weekend. There is indeed one this month, just keep checking back every Saturday!
- Reposted by EPOCHThanks to editor @jrobertlennon.com and @epochliterary.com for including my odd little piece "Nineteen Footnotes on a Poem About My Marriage" as a featured essay in the Fall 2025 issue. I'm grateful to be part of such an impressive collection. You can find it at www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
- Reposted by EPOCH“Anything can be born.” Martha Zweig #poetry @epochliterary.com
- We are open for subs!
- Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive
- Volume 72, Issue 2 is out now! 192pp. Cover art is Transit, Acrylic gouache paint on paper, by David Pjecha. Stop by the shop for a print ($10) or PDF ($7) copy. Complete contributor list in the image alt. Subs for 73.1 open in a week! www.epochliterary.com/archive
- Reposted by EPOCHHow can you not read a poem by a guy named Ed Skoog?
- The website is now updated with a few selected pieces from the forthcoming issue. Subscription copies will go out in a couple of weeks, and the issue will go up for sale on the site. Also, we open for subs August 1!
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- Today on the blog, assistant editor Imogen Osborne interviews poet Tom Bailey, at the publication of his new pamphlet, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR FEED THE HORSES (the title poem appeared in EPOCH 70.1). "I think there's a poetry to misnaming things and being wrong."
- Hey #AWP25 attendees, we will be at bookfair today, table T832! Come check out the new issue, buy a tote, and meet the editors.
- Hey #AWP25 attendees, EPOCH will be at table T832 at bookfair! We've got ten dollar magazines and ten dollar totes. Come say hello, especially if you're one of our contributors...we would love to meet you.
- Today on the blog, assistant fiction editor Miklos Mattyasovszky interviews Meghan O’Gieblyn, author of GOD, HUMAN, ANIMAL, MACHINE. "Much of what I value in good writing comes down to the messiness of another mind at work."
- Reposted by EPOCHMy contributor copies of @epochliterary.com have found me! Here's my poem, "Diorama" 🐊🐊
- Reposted by EPOCH"The Spider's Share," an essay in @epochliterary.com (only the first page shown here) www.epochliterary.com/shop/p/volum...
- We're pleased to announce that the past TWENTY YEARS of EPOCH are is available in the form of high-quality PDF downloads, $7 for the new, larger format; $5 for the old, slimmer ones. www.epochliterary.com/archive
- Reposted by EPOCHI'm the translator of Jiawei's poem in this issue🎈🎈🎈Like this cover very much.
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHExcited to have a story in the new issue of Epoch! Thanks to the staff for a great experience and @jrobertlennon.com for thoughtful edits.
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHThrilled to be included in this volume of Epoch alongside some truly spectacular voices!
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHTHRILLED to have a little poem (the final poem!) in the latest issue of @epochliterary.com. It's about, uh, the joys of workshop:
- Reposted by EPOCHi have 6 very short stories in this new issue. here are 2 of them: for the Cheers fans and frogs fans.
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHJust got my copies in the mail. Thank you again to @epochliterary.com and @cornellupress.bsky.social for choosing my painting, "This Is Us When We Dream," on the cover of the current issue. Epoch has been in circulation since 1947. It's quite the honor to be part of their long history. Thanks Epoch!
- Reposted by EPOCHIt feels very good to see my poem about composer Fanny Hensel in such very good company!
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHTracy Hill’s “Crater” ☄️ 💜 is a must-read! @russianumbrella.bsky.social
- Reposted by EPOCHThe recent essay I'd love to have people read is in @epochliterary.com, which is a print journal, so I can't post it here. But @doublebackreview.bsky.social just reprinted an early essay of mine here: doublebackreview.com/issue-6-1-ap...
- Reposted by EPOCHI have an essay among very good company in the new issue of EPOCH.
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Reposted by EPOCHthere’s so much hyperbole online but also: this may be the greatest issue of a literary journal of all time*
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Our Spring 2025 issue is out now! Print copies $10 shipped in the US, $7 for a PDF. Etgar Keret, Juan Martinez, Sarah Kokernot, Adam O'Fallon Price, Tom McAllister, Steve Himmer, Jiawei, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Hai-Dang Phan, and many more www.epochliterary.com
- Today we have a new interview with George Saunders, by assistant editor Otis Fuqua! www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...
- Reposted by EPOCHWe're publishing some sneak previews from the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social print issue 25 (pre-order available now). Here's the Dear Reader letter, about how we truly did not know a single thing when we started, but somehow we're still here 20 years later. www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/issue-2...
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- Reposted by EPOCHNo worries, @epochliterary.com! We're 52; we get it.
- Good morning! We have a new post up on the blog...a review of Shangyang Fang's BURYING THE MOUNTAIN, in which poet and Assistant Editor Derek Chan finds "a deeply metaphysical and meditative ethos."
- Whoops, pardon us, shoulda tagged @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, forgive us for forgetting, we are 77 years old
- Reposted by EPOCHif these butchered blurbs didn't sell you, you can also read 3 essays from the book in the new issue of @epochliterary.com www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
- Reposted by EPOCHThis poem is very close to my heart and I’m thrilled to have it featured in this issue of EPOCH! Grateful to be part of such an incredible journal.
- We've added the TOC and cover of 72.1 to the site, along with three sneak previews of the issue! First, a new poem by Elaine Liu, "Roche Limit" www.epochliterary.com/featuredpoetry
- Finally, this issue's featured essay is actually three short essays, from @tmcallister.bsky.social's forthcoming collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
- We've also got a new story from Etgar Keret, translated from the hebrew by Jessica Cohen: "The Hallway" www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...
- We've added the TOC and cover of 72.1 to the site, along with three sneak previews of the issue! First, a new poem by Elaine Liu, "Roche Limit" www.epochliterary.com/featuredpoetry
- Reposted by EPOCH3 essays from this book are in the new issue of @epochliterary.com. You can read them here (and we'll open for book pre-orders next week! ) www.epochliterary.com/featuredessay
- Very excited to share the cover of my new book, which comes out from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social in May. Contains a short essay written for every year of my life so far. Pre-orders in Feb + I hope announced a bunch of events. Click the link for more details. rosemetalpress.com/sneak-peek-o...
- Tomorrow's the last day to submit electronically! You can snail mail anytime, but be aware we only read Feb-Mar and Sept-Oct.
- Reposted by EPOCHSo freaking excited to be in this issue of @epochliterary.com ! Check out the line-up! Out soon! You can snag a physical copy or a PDF over here: www.epochliterary.com
- TOC for 72.1, headed to the printer next week. Featuring @adamoprice.bsky.social @mikemeginnis.bsky.social @tmcallister.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social @keemoart.bsky.social and many others
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- FYI, our free submission weekend is ongoing! Til midnight. And if you do have three bucks and want to help us (and incarcerated writers) out, the regular portal is still open...
- Reposted by EPOCHThis is a BANGER of a lineup. Keret and Tar Heels legend Adam O'Fallon Price in the same TOC? Incredible.
- TOC for 72.1, headed to the printer next week. Featuring @adamoprice.bsky.social @mikemeginnis.bsky.social @tmcallister.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social @keemoart.bsky.social and many others
- EPOCH contributor and former editor 👇🏼
- ✉️ this week's newsletter —> bradlisti.substack.com/p/a-consciou...
- TOC for 72.1, headed to the printer next week. Featuring @adamoprice.bsky.social @mikemeginnis.bsky.social @tmcallister.bsky.social @shimmer.bsky.social @keemoart.bsky.social and many others
- Reposted by EPOCHVery honored to have this painting on the cover of the March issue of @epochliterary.com put out by @cornellupress.bsky.social . Thank you to Epoch and Cornell for the opportunity.
- Getting a few emails about simultaneous subs. I suppose we should have a posted policy, but we just don't care enough to bother. You paid us three bucks! Do whatever serves your work. We promise to respond within a few months, and please withdraw if you're publishing elsewhere.
- Our guest editors this year are Michael Prior (poetry) and Téa Obreht (fiction). 72.1 will be out next month and features prose from Etgar Keret, Edmundo Paz Soldan, Juan Martinez, and Sarah Kokernot; and poetry from Hai-Dang Phan, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, and Jiawei.
- WE ARE OPEN for electronic submissions of poetry, essay, fiction, comics, and cover art, through the month of January! We are a print magazine and pay between $100 and $500. There will be a free submissions weekend later in the month. Mail subs are fine too.
- Reposted by EPOCH(I've been excited about essays this year — two more are forthcoming in @epochliterary.com and @barrelhouse.bsky.social, and I have a few out on submission right now)
- ...and editor Ngoc Pham, in "The Case for Self-Plagiarism," discovers hidden depths in their failed poems of the past. "Poems can continue to transform as the poet’s new experiences and insights reframe and reimagine old images and metaphors."
- We are closing out the year with two new craft pieces on the blog. The first is "On Surrealist Translation," by editor Em Setzer. "Perhaps the only things necessary for translating Surrealist poetry," they write, "are a Surrealist mindset and European passport."
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- 72.1 is now officially 🛌. Out in February, and featuring:
- Today on the blog, poetry MFA candidate Ella Shively interviews paranormal romance writer Paige LaVoie, author of MOTHMAN IN LOVE www.epochliterary.com/blog/intervi...
- (reposting b/c of a typo!) Our 2024 Pushcart nominees: Catherine Nichols, “The Middle Ages” Zahid Rafiq, “In Small Boxes” Chanda Feldman, “As a Side Note to a Side Note in the History” Ed Skoog, “Sestina: Last Days” Rosalind Margulies, “The Supervillain” Vivek Sharma, “Shree Ganeshaya Namah”
- New today on the blog, a review, by assistant editor Susanna Cupido, of the 1961 anthology THE DRUG EXPERIENCE! "It’s best to find a copy at the library, at a second-hand bookstore, at a thrift store, or—ideally—discarded in a dumpster somewhere."
