Ashley Kim 김다운

Cognitive Science alumna @ucla. Work in @stirringlit, @hyphenmag, @autofocuslit, @feedlitmag. Reader for @variantlit. Korean American. Soli deo gloria!

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Free workshop on May 21st! Hosted by @VariantLit, taught by @ashlogophile! Write some list poems with us!

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Thank you to everyone who came to write with us yesterday. Your poems were incredible and the discussion was so good!
And huge thanks to @ashlogophile for teaching!

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Not to be dramatic but submissions close April 5th and we really want to read your poems, short stories, and flash fiction!

[megan nichols @mgnchols]

Friendly reminder that @VariantLit is accepting poetry & prose submission until April 5th and won't open again until November. We're only doing two issues a year, so please please send us your surprising, strange, incredible work!

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

love, love, love this moment from an interview with Mary Ruefle

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

OMG I LOVED THIS! Congrats Megan :)

[X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag]

we have a great story by Megan Nichols @mgnchols !! '

House Fly' is about a couple that gets an insanely bad drain fly infestation. this story has one of the best first & last sentences that i've read in awhile. definitely do not miss it !

https://t.co/0rwV9HDIdp

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@mgnchols OMG CANNOT WAIT ❤️

[londemere lit — issue iv out now!! 💌 @londemerelit]

@ashlogophile

[megan nichols @mgnchols]

Submission are open! Fiction, flash, poetry!
https://t.co/FDyoeIAy86

[megan nichols @mgnchols]

New poetry from @ashlogophile

On good days

I read classics about

the circular nature of time

or womanhood

without understanding what they mean.

Read "To the Suicide Hotline Operator I Called in High School"

https://t.co/TceEbNfvxk

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

New poem by editor @ashlogophile ♥️ https://t.co/JCT7fxR8aq

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

We're aiming to publish issue 18 next week-ish

AND THEN

the mag will take a two month hiatus during which we will reconsider our model for social media, nominations, the press distribution model, finances, and the mag pub frequency.

[megan nichols @mgnchols]

Variant Lit is now open for poetry. Poetry subs close Feb 29th. https://t.co/SV1X1458Dg

- No fee to submit
- We pay a $10 honorarium
- We respond within 2 months
- We're eager to read a variety of perspectives and styles. Send us the pieces you're most excited about!

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@chenchenwrites Either my mom and grandma’s kkori gomtang or Han Bat’s seoleongtang 🥲

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@CatHoang_ I want writer friends too! email me [email protected] hehe

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@KristyJHoyle Hi Kristy! I would love to be friends :) My major at UCLA was CogSci & I write poems/short stories/CNF! Let's call sometime if you're free!

[Trivarna Hariharan @TrivarnaH]

…I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.

Remembering the immortal work of Louise Glück.

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@jessnirvanapoet @HoneyLiterary Hi! I have a chapbook coming out in November— can I submit a review for it?

[Variant Literature @VariantLit]

Variant Editor Spotlight ✨ @ashlogophile has a new cnf piece out with *82 review https://t.co/YsP60A9UIB @TRossiWriter has new work in invisible city lit https://t.co/IVZM2nuqXo and @mgnchols two poems in On The Seawall https://t.co/yRJPQq0pWv

[Ashley Kim 김다운 @ashlogophile]

@TRossiWriter

https://t.co/B1zX4Su61C

Read this stunning piece ASAP 😭🤩

“I thought at first that I was to him a table, a piece of furniture, in this tableau, but later came to see it was a vessel of sorts that he required, the open reception of my shell-like ear.”