by Variant Lit Team | Apr 25, 2026 | press news, Variety Pack
Variant Literature is excited to announce Trusting the Image: List Poems, a free poetry workshop led by writer Ashley Kim. Register here. The list poem is a form built on uniquely trusting that images placed in sequence will create meaning. At heart, this is what all...
by Variant Lit Team | Mar 21, 2026 | press news, Variety Pack
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. Congratulations to all of this year’s incredible shortlisted titles. What an honor to be in such brilliant company:...
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 | Dec 22, 2025 | Book Reviews, Variety Pack
Court Ludwick’s debut collection, These Strange Bodies (2024, ELJ Editions), presents a hybrid assemblage of texts that is two parts fragmented memoir of early adulthood, one part poetic exploration of embodiment. Ludwick’s unflinching archaeology of self results in a...
