Epiphany
@epiphanylit.bsky.social
Epiphany is a literary magazine and independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that has supported writers at every stage of their careers for over 20 years.
We're hosting an open mic night for our volunteers and staff! Come hear the thoughtful readers of *your* submissions share their own work!
N.B. the only people reading (this time!) will be Epiphany staff + volunteers. Space is limited, so arrive on time to guarantee a seat.
N.B. the only people reading (this time!) will be Epiphany staff + volunteers. Space is limited, so arrive on time to guarantee a seat.
January 30, 2026 at 10:06 PM
We're hosting an open mic night for our volunteers and staff! Come hear the thoughtful readers of *your* submissions share their own work!
N.B. the only people reading (this time!) will be Epiphany staff + volunteers. Space is limited, so arrive on time to guarantee a seat.
N.B. the only people reading (this time!) will be Epiphany staff + volunteers. Space is limited, so arrive on time to guarantee a seat.
Happy holidays from the Epiphany community!
January 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Happy holidays from the Epiphany community!
Looking forward to celebrating with you all tonight at Von Bar! Featuring readings by @joannahershon.bsky.social, Wah-Ming Chang, Edidong Uzoma Essien, and @jweirdo.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Looking forward to celebrating with you all tonight at Von Bar! Featuring readings by @joannahershon.bsky.social, Wah-Ming Chang, Edidong Uzoma Essien, and @jweirdo.bsky.social.
After nearly 25 years, it was time for an Epiphany refresh! Explore our new website at epiphanymagazine.org.
While our mission remains the same—championing boundary-pushing writers at all stages of their careers—the new site opens up new ways to discover the work we feature.
While our mission remains the same—championing boundary-pushing writers at all stages of their careers—the new site opens up new ways to discover the work we feature.
December 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
After nearly 25 years, it was time for an Epiphany refresh! Explore our new website at epiphanymagazine.org.
While our mission remains the same—championing boundary-pushing writers at all stages of their careers—the new site opens up new ways to discover the work we feature.
While our mission remains the same—championing boundary-pushing writers at all stages of their careers—the new site opens up new ways to discover the work we feature.
Issue 35 cover art reveal! "Solitude" by digital collage artist Evans Akanyijuka. The issue will be available for purchase next week.
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Issue 35 cover art reveal! "Solitude" by digital collage artist Evans Akanyijuka. The issue will be available for purchase next week.
Thank you New York State Council on the Arts for your support of Epiphany. This grant allows us to keep cultivating (and paying!) writers across genres, countries, and generations.
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Thank you New York State Council on the Arts for your support of Epiphany. This grant allows us to keep cultivating (and paying!) writers across genres, countries, and generations.
Epiphany is hiring a Digital Marketing Manager + Media Strategist! To learn more and to apply, click here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Epiphany is hiring a Digital Marketing Manager + Media Strategist! To learn more and to apply, click here docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Announcing our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees!
You can read Ananya and Mazi's stories in Issue 35: Desire & Dread epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany.... The rest of our noms will feature in our upcoming issue, out in December!
You can read Ananya and Mazi's stories in Issue 35: Desire & Dread epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany.... The rest of our noms will feature in our upcoming issue, out in December!
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Announcing our 2025 @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominees!
You can read Ananya and Mazi's stories in Issue 35: Desire & Dread epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany.... The rest of our noms will feature in our upcoming issue, out in December!
You can read Ananya and Mazi's stories in Issue 35: Desire & Dread epiphanyzine.com/buy/epiphany.... The rest of our noms will feature in our upcoming issue, out in December!
Announcing our 2025 Best of the Net nominees!
You can read all the pieces on our website epiphanyzine.com
You can read all the pieces on our website epiphanyzine.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Announcing our 2025 Best of the Net nominees!
You can read all the pieces on our website epiphanyzine.com
You can read all the pieces on our website epiphanyzine.com
Subs are now open for our next issue. Send us your best work, now through December 15!
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Subs are now open for our next issue. Send us your best work, now through December 15!
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
Submissions for issue 36 open in three days, and we are delighted to announce that the poetry for this issue will be edited by esteemed poet @camillerankine.bsky.social. So poets, send us your best!
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Submissions for issue 36 open in three days, and we are delighted to announce that the poetry for this issue will be edited by esteemed poet @camillerankine.bsky.social. So poets, send us your best!
We are having a fall reading and you're invited!
Please join us on Thursday, October 16th, 8pm at Liz's Book Bar (315 Smith Street, Brooklyn) featuring Emily Skillings, Ananya Pandya, June Glass, and Alice Liang
Please join us on Thursday, October 16th, 8pm at Liz's Book Bar (315 Smith Street, Brooklyn) featuring Emily Skillings, Ananya Pandya, June Glass, and Alice Liang
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We are having a fall reading and you're invited!
Please join us on Thursday, October 16th, 8pm at Liz's Book Bar (315 Smith Street, Brooklyn) featuring Emily Skillings, Ananya Pandya, June Glass, and Alice Liang
Please join us on Thursday, October 16th, 8pm at Liz's Book Bar (315 Smith Street, Brooklyn) featuring Emily Skillings, Ananya Pandya, June Glass, and Alice Liang
Please join us in welcoming Sara Lippmann as Epiphany’s new Editor-in-Chief! A longtime teacher, editor, writer, and literary co-conspirator, Sara shares our passion for collective work and championing bold, original voices.
As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”
As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”
June 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Please join us in welcoming Sara Lippmann as Epiphany’s new Editor-in-Chief! A longtime teacher, editor, writer, and literary co-conspirator, Sara shares our passion for collective work and championing bold, original voices.
As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”
As she says: “We are better in conversation, in collaboration.”
We’re still riding the high from this year’s Fête!
Endless thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, or cheered us on from afar—we raised a record-breaking amount that will help keep us going strong into next year.
We truly couldn’t do it without you 💛
Endless thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, or cheered us on from afar—we raised a record-breaking amount that will help keep us going strong into next year.
We truly couldn’t do it without you 💛
June 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We’re still riding the high from this year’s Fête!
Endless thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, or cheered us on from afar—we raised a record-breaking amount that will help keep us going strong into next year.
We truly couldn’t do it without you 💛
Endless thanks to everyone who attended, contributed, or cheered us on from afar—we raised a record-breaking amount that will help keep us going strong into next year.
We truly couldn’t do it without you 💛
Why do we fête? To celebrate artists like Lucille Whittier—assistant managing editor at Epiphany, lover of survival stories and warm drinks, with work published in Love & Squalor and The Nowhere Girl Collective.
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Why do we fête? To celebrate artists like Lucille Whittier—assistant managing editor at Epiphany, lover of survival stories and warm drinks, with work published in Love & Squalor and The Nowhere Girl Collective.
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social—Epiphany editor, writer of fiction and drama, visual storyteller, and NYU Tisch grad whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Carolina Quarterly, and Rolling Stone.
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social—Epiphany editor, writer of fiction and drama, visual storyteller, and NYU Tisch grad whose work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Carolina Quarterly, and Rolling Stone.
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support emerging talents like Lexi Byers—Epiphany editorial intern, reader, and freelance editor with dual degrees in English & Creative Writing. Her work is forthcoming in Bridge’s Fall 2025 issue.
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support emerging talents like Lexi Byers—Epiphany editorial intern, reader, and freelance editor with dual degrees in English & Creative Writing. Her work is forthcoming in Bridge’s Fall 2025 issue.
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us on June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @sidneylogan.bsky.social—Epiphany’s 2025 Fresh Voices Fellow, 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, short story writer (Bodega, Minerva Rising), and debut novelist in the making.
Support writers like Sidney: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Support writers like Sidney: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like @sidneylogan.bsky.social—Epiphany’s 2025 Fresh Voices Fellow, 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, short story writer (Bodega, Minerva Rising), and debut novelist in the making.
Support writers like Sidney: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Support writers like Sidney: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
✨ Cover reveal time ✨
Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue is almost here—and a limited supply will be available at the Fête! Our last issue sold out, so don’t sleep on this one.
🎉 Starting today: Get 20% off Fête tickets with code PARTY
Come celebrate: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue is almost here—and a limited supply will be available at the Fête! Our last issue sold out, so don’t sleep on this one.
🎉 Starting today: Get 20% off Fête tickets with code PARTY
Come celebrate: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
✨ Cover reveal time ✨
Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue is almost here—and a limited supply will be available at the Fête! Our last issue sold out, so don’t sleep on this one.
🎉 Starting today: Get 20% off Fête tickets with code PARTY
Come celebrate: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Our Spring/Summer 2025 issue is almost here—and a limited supply will be available at the Fête! Our last issue sold out, so don’t sleep on this one.
🎉 Starting today: Get 20% off Fête tickets with code PARTY
Come celebrate: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Fête season means spotlighting the brilliant folks behind the magic—like photographer and storyteller Daniel Schwartz, whose lens has captured Cosmo, Forbes, Tasting Table, and more.
Join us June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
June 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Fête season means spotlighting the brilliant folks behind the magic—like photographer and storyteller Daniel Schwartz, whose lens has captured Cosmo, Forbes, Tasting Table, and more.
Join us June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us June 12th: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Meet Michele Lent Hirsch: writer of poetry and prose, author of Invisible (2018), contributing editor at Epiphany, and thoughtful teacher of craft at places like the 92nd Street Y.
She’s part of what makes Epiphany possible. Your ticket supports her and others: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
She’s part of what makes Epiphany possible. Your ticket supports her and others: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
May 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Meet Michele Lent Hirsch: writer of poetry and prose, author of Invisible (2018), contributing editor at Epiphany, and thoughtful teacher of craft at places like the 92nd Street Y.
She’s part of what makes Epiphany possible. Your ticket supports her and others: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
She’s part of what makes Epiphany possible. Your ticket supports her and others: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like Ashna Ali—poetry editor at Epiphany, author of The Relativity of Living Well (2024), PAIN BABY Substack creator, & MFA student at Randolph College.
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
May 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Why do we fête? To celebrate and support artists like Ashna Ali—poetry editor at Epiphany, author of The Relativity of Living Well (2024), PAIN BABY Substack creator, & MFA student at Randolph College.
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
This is who your ticket uplifts: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Singer, songwriter & composer Daphne Gale brings her stirring blend of folk, jazz, and art song to the Fête stage this year. Based between NYC, LA & Berlin, her intimate, genre-blending sound is not to be missed!
Join us June 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us June 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
May 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Singer, songwriter & composer Daphne Gale brings her stirring blend of folk, jazz, and art song to the Fête stage this year. Based between NYC, LA & Berlin, her intimate, genre-blending sound is not to be missed!
Join us June 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Join us June 12: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
We’re thrilled to welcome honored Fête guest: Emily Kirven, Executive Director & founder of READ 718.
Emily saw firsthand how inequitable access to literacy support impacted her Brooklyn students—and in 2015, she founded READ 718 to change that.
Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Emily saw firsthand how inequitable access to literacy support impacted her Brooklyn students—and in 2015, she founded READ 718 to change that.
Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
May 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We’re thrilled to welcome honored Fête guest: Emily Kirven, Executive Director & founder of READ 718.
Emily saw firsthand how inequitable access to literacy support impacted her Brooklyn students—and in 2015, she founded READ 718 to change that.
Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
Emily saw firsthand how inequitable access to literacy support impacted her Brooklyn students—and in 2015, she founded READ 718 to change that.
Grab your ticket: www.eventbrite.com/e/epiphanys-...
As we count down to the Fête, we’re thrilled to spotlight The Urbane Arts Club—Brooklyn’s literary gem and our Fête venue! Housed in a 1920s speakeasy, The Urbane is more than just a venue—it’s a cultural hub blending historic charm with a vibrant, community-first spirit.
May 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
As we count down to the Fête, we’re thrilled to spotlight The Urbane Arts Club—Brooklyn’s literary gem and our Fête venue! Housed in a 1920s speakeasy, The Urbane is more than just a venue—it’s a cultural hub blending historic charm with a vibrant, community-first spirit.