PUBLISHER OF POETRY, FICTION, & NONFICTION

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.

Publishers and editors often ask for new and “surprising work they’ve “never seen before.” But how do we actually do that? Given marketplace pressure to write sellable fiction with clear comps and the antiquated traditions of many MFA workshops, it can be difficult to find the courage and the right tools to create truly surprising work.