by Variant Lit Team | Feb 7, 2026 | press news, Variety Pack
Variant Literature is excited to announce The Weight of Small Moments: A Jane Kenyon Study, a free poetry workshop led by Ashley Kim. Register here. This workshop centers on the poetry of Jane Kenyon, whose work reminds us that lives are made not of spectacle, but of...
by Variant Lit Team | Jan 19, 2026 | Book Reviews, Variety Pack
Review of The Divide: Stories by Evan Morgan Williams Book release: February 17, 2026 from Cornerstone Press Evan Morgan Williams’ latest book, The Divide (Cornerstone Press February 2026), is a collection of short fiction rooted in the Mountain West. The stories...
by Variant Lit Team | Jan 18, 2026 | Interview, Variety Pack
Sharon Kennedy-Nolle is the author of the chapbook Black Wick: Selected Elegies (Variant Literature, 2021), which was a semifinalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest and a 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press. Her full-length...
by Variant Lit Team | Oct 11, 2025 | News
We’re thrilled to announce Variant Lit’s 2026 Best of the Net nominees! Michael Agunbiade — “the new testament” Erica Dawson — “On Craft” griffin epstein — “well-adjusted” Isaiah Gardner — “To the Gay Man at My Little Brother’s High School Graduation” Mara Lee...
by Variant Lit Team | Oct 8, 2025 | Book Reviews
Our Human Shores (Black Ocean: 2025) is a dense yet lyrical examination of the limits and imperatives of human agency during the anthropocene. The book’s sprawling, kaleidoscopic mass of untitled poems features cyclical variation in form (left-aligned lines in...
