Website:
Genres Published:
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres:
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Historical, Humor, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Micro-poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Political, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, Visual Poetry, War, Young Adult
Formats:
Online, Digital, Audio, Video
Submission Guidelines:
Reading Periods:
May 1 to Jun 15
Sep 1 to Oct 15
Temporarily closed to submissions
Response Time:
Less than 3 months
Charges Reading Fee:
Yes
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:
Yes
Payment:
Cash
Issues per Year:
2
Issue Price:
Free
Subscription Price:
Free
Circulation:
Less than 1,000
Editorial Focus
Variety Pack tries to live up their namesake! A bedrock of diverse voices, expressing a variety of arts & letters. Open to both genre and literary. Sure there’s an aesthetic, but it’s a broad atlas rather than a narrow stream!
Tips From the Editor
Please read our guidelines carefully! Read previous issues, but also feel free to send us something that we haven’t published yet. Note: reading periods will be subject to change.
Contact Information
Jared Benjamin, Founding Editor and Interim Visual Arts Editor
447 Prospect Avenue
Apartment #2
Buffalo
NY
14201
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Last updated: Apr 14, 2026