Barbara Lock MD, MFA
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I tweet about writing, editing, doctoring, teaching, feminism, and spirit. I support bodily autonomy and the right to self-determination.
New York
Joined March 2009
At some point the life of a stranger has to have value for you. When you cherish the life dwelling within the stranger, you kindle your own life. If you dismiss or extinguish another's life, your own life dies. Don't you want to feel good? What is this indiscriminate killing?
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Rhetorical Convergence The rapid collapse of stylistic variance as AI-assisted communication gravitates toward a single orthodoxy of clarity, conciseness, and civility. This is already happening in subtle ways: emails now read like press releases, short essays like complete
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More staff spotlights! Teddy is a production assistant and poetry reader at Variant and an editorial fellow at A Public Space. His poems have been featured or are forthcoming in Hobart, ExPat Press, Poet’s Row, and elsewhere.
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Last night our 4-year old told us that everyone has a ghost inside their bodies and the ghost keeps us alive.
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Meet Prose Editor, Brandon Ahmad Haffner! He received his MFA from UNC Greensboro. His fiction appears in the Sewanee Review, New Orleans Review, Harvard Review, Carolina Quarterly, & other journals. He teaches creative writing at Longwood University and lives in Richmond, VA
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The 2 questions we're most asked at the food ministry I volunteer at: 1. What hoops do I have to jump through for food? 2. Do I have to go to church for food? To which we answer: 1. As few as we can get away with. 2. No.
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Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10
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Meet Tori Walters, Managing Editor of Flash Prose and Micros! "I am looking for work that dives deeper, goes a shade more vulnerable—and does so in a way that feels fully realized within the constraint of flash prose."
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I've been giving away books, but keeping sci-fi, myths, fables, legends, and fairy tales.
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I’m thinking about hosting a Zoom meetup for poets & writers who also freelance in marketing, project management, or adjacent creative work. Would love to discuss how to balance integrity, art, and client work. Does this sound interesting to anyone?
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I'd like to see some fiction in the @variantlit queue about this. Or maybe I'll write some myself.
🚨NASA Quietly Activates Planetary Defense Network for 3I/ATLAS Without Saying a Word Buried in tonight’s official MPEC (2025-U142) the Minor Planet Center’s internal bulletin is an editorial notice that says it all: “Announcement of IAWN Comet Astrometry Campaign Nov. 27,
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You know what's really real? Asking grok "Is this real?"
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🔔 Submissions open! 🔔 Channel is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish for Issue 14. We can’t wait to read your work - get it to us before the deadline of 20 November 📝🌿🌼 https://t.co/YSReE2PVdi
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Send your poetry & stories to @VariantLit ! Open Oct 21st to Dec 4th. No fee to submit. Pays $10 per acceptance.
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I have a new poem in The Baltimore Review today
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Megan Nichols is the author of the chapbook Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, Plume, and elsewhere. She was a finalist for…
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