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It Was Never Supposed To Be
by Ben Kline
Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance
by Todd Dillard
Love Letters from a Burning Planet
by MJ Gomez
A Pocket of Genesis
by Ernest Ògúnyẹmí
Glass Essays
by J. A. Bernstein
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It Was Never Supposed To Be Shortlisted for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award
We’re proud to share that It Was Never Supposed To Be by Ben Kline has been shortlisted for the 2026 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry.
Free Poetry Workshop Feb 26th: The Weight of Small Moments
Variant Literature is excited to announce the first event in our new workshop series, The Weight of Small Moments: A Jane Kenyon Study, a free poetry workshop led by Ashley Kim on Thursday, February 26 at 6:00 PM PT.
Review of The Divide: Stories by Evan Morgan Williams
Evan Morgan Williams’ latest book, The Divide (Cornerstone Press February 2026), is a collection of short fiction rooted in the Mountain West. The stories collected here center on characters who face divides not unlike a land punctuated by mountain ranges: couples quarrel over past lovers while facing present obstacles, sometimes to the detriment of their potential survival; men recall the ghosts of lovers of the past while the chasm between themselves and their current partners grows; a brother is reminded of his lost sister and all the girls who are not her. The mountainous, often frigid landscape plays a large role here, complicating events, providing opportunities for characters to prevail against natural odds, or serving as a reminder of the peril these characters face as they wrestle with specters of the past.
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