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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Sweet Sixteen, BIG OTHER!

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Sixteen years ago, I launched Big Other, introducing it as “an online forum of iconoclasts and upstarts focusing its lens on books, music, comics, film, video and animation, paintings, sculp…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 1d

Stay tuned for a new short story by Terese Svoboda in BIG OTHER! In the meantime, read the superb quintet of Svoboda poems we published in 2019!

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Five Poems, by Terese Svoboda

Ark-Shaped Plus Neck She walks the shore, kempt and clipped, just-so wings, a lion’s glance across the blue savannah, no sand gritting her double lids, her etcetera’s a dance of known…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 2d

Published today: "Four Hours," a new short story by Yannick Murphy!

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Four Hours, by Yannick Murphy

Salt from his margarita sat on his lips. A grain had wound up on his face, sitting in one of the many round acne scars that pocked his skin. Tara looked around the restaurant and noticed dus…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 2d

Read the Levinson poems in BIG OTHER:
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Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

“Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Patmos” wrench lateral carapace bleed rowel from which turbulent fathom this tremor, this blush foment, t…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 2d

Buy CROSSFALL:
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Crossfall

Check out Crossfall - <b>Crossfall Considered Two</b><br>I began writing Crossfall poems before I knew what the word meant. Then: <br>Crossfall = "The transverse sloping of a roadway toward the gutter...

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 2d

Received today: an inscribed copy of BIG OTHER contributor Heller Levinson's CROSSFALL (Black Widow Press), which includes the five Levinson poems we published in 2024!

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations, László Krasznahorkai! In 2020, we awarded Krasznahorkai’s BARON WENCKHEIM'S HOMECOMING the 2019 BIG OTHER Book Award for Translation. IN 2024, we awarded Krasznahorkai a BIG OTHER Lifetime Achievement Award! Kudos, Maestro!

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Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 5d

Stay tuned for a superb quartet of poems by Paul Stubbs in BIG OTHER!

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Paul Stubbs, poet Paul Stubbs is the author of five poetry collections and of two books of poetical and philosophical essays.

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 6d

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading "A Way to Go," which we published in 2019!

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From the Archives: A Way to Go, by Roberta Allen

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Roberta Allen! Celebrate by reading “A Way to Go,” which we published in 2019! I see my sister, Eugenie. She’s just a child. I’m a child too…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 6d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Yannick Murphy in BIG OTHER!

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Yannick Murphy – Author

Publication Date: November 4, 2025 by Skyhorse Publishing

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 8d

Published today: a marvelous short fiction by Martine Bellen!

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The Doctrine of Notions, by Martine Bellen

Left alone, an empty jug will replenish, so it has been written; mirrors will cast flashes from one’s past; an apple will bleed; an acorn will swell into a giant. How dependable is the behav…

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Aimee Parkison @aimeeparkison.bsky.social · 10d

Cover Reveal. #WritingCommunity @unboundedition.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social @fictioncollective2.bsky.social @bigothermag.bsky.social Pre-Order: ueplit.short.gy/BodyofEvidence

Body of Evidence | Aimee Parkison | Short Fiction - Unbound Edition Press

Body of Evidence crosses boundaries between story and confession in a haunting speculative collection that confronts the aftermath of gendered violence by blurring the divide between fiction and nonfi...

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 8d

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New work by Joanna Ruocco in @bigothermag.bsky.social
Have you read her book ANOTHER GOVERNESS / THE LEAST BLACKSMITH: A DIPTYCH ? Now is the time: fc2.org/authors/ruoc...

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 10d

Published today: eight superb microfictions by Joanna Ruocco!

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Eight Microfictions, by Joanna Ruocco

iDeath My father was driven to Drink and Despair in a donkey cart. Other men had died there, and the driver pointed them out, jumbles of bones for the most part, but one man had eaten a beehive, an…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 10d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Martine Bellen in BIG OTHER!

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday, BIG OTHER contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which we published in 2024!

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From the Archives: Five Poems, by Heller Levinson

Happy birthday, Big Other contributor Heller Levinson! Celebrate by reading these five Levinson poems, which we published in 2024! “Yet where danger lies, Grows that which saves.” —from Frie…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 11d

Stay tuned for new fiction by Joanna Ruocco in BIG OTHER!

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 12d

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.

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Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovat…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 19d

Enter your book[s] published in 2025 for a chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is December 31, 2025.

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Announcing the Deadline and Guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards!

We are excited to announce the deadline and guidelines for the 2025 Big Other Book Awards! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature and to promote and support the work of innovat…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 20d

Published today: two marvelous poems by Antonio Gamoneda, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez!

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Two Poems from Erroneous Song, by Antonio Gamoneda

Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez I have seen hearts settled by ants, and carnal masks, and a snake stroked by an indecisive executioner, and imprisoned larks in r…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 24d

Published today: a folio of poems by Hungarian poets Virág Erdős, Dezső Kosztolányi, Ottó Orbán, and Anna Terék translated by George Szirtes!

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Hungarian Poetry Folio

Translations by George Szirtes A Dream of Colored Inks By Dezső Kosztolányi Yellow is my favorite. How many letters Might I write to a sweetheart with such ink, To the girl that I love of ro…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 25d

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams!

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William Carlos Williams on Language, Writing, Reading, Poetry, and More

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the Puerto Rican writer: “beauty is a defiance of authority” “And if when I pompously annou…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 26d

R.I.P., Dan Wickett, small press hero and literary citizen extraordinaire. Founder of the Emerging Writers Network, co-founder of the Dzanc Books, strong supporter of BIG OTHER, Dan supported many artists in innumerable ways. Big thanks to Dan. We will miss him.

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 27d

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Scintillant, by Arthur Sze

Scintillant Trudging uphill, I turn onto a deer path then follow the switchbacks you marked with orange streamers until I arrive at a cairn and overlook where I view the gold run of cottonwo…

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Big Other @bigothermag.bsky.social · 27d

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Blackcap, by Arthur Sze

V E R G E: she sets type by hand and loves how the spaces between letters and between words are of the same type-metal the letters themselves are cast from: o p e n w a t e r : standin…

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