Flight: A Literary Sampler

A picture of four people, all wearing black shirts and AWP lanyards, standing in front of the troublemaker firestarter booth

Our (sibling) editor team of @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social with the sibling team from @troublemakerfire.bsky.social

Will, a white man with a dark beard in front of a blue car

Frances, a white person with dark hair and glasses smiling in front of an airport

Our editors are en route to AWP! If you see us around the convention, say hi!

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Authors at AWP getting ready to tell an editor "you rejected my work."

We would certainly consider an excerpt of 2500 words or less!

Our editors checking the submission folder:

Submission Guidelines Flight is a literary magazine that features four pieces in each issue: one poem, one story, one essay, and a “Brewer’s Choice” category, offbeat submissions, which will rotate genre by issue. Please s...

We have responded to all submissions in our queue, and could use a few more! We still need fiction, nonfiction, and brewer's choice for issue 5, and we're free to submit!

flight-literary.ghost.io/submission-g...

Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

This is so beautifully sad. Melancholy.

@carriganak.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social

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i wrote a collection with my bestie and it’s gonna be out in the world soooooon. like, actually.

The longer I sit with this piece, the more it gets me.

Right?! It’s almost hypnotizing how it unrolls

Multiple former contributors of ours in this issue, woohoo! Now it’s EXTRA worth reading!

Flight 3 is here with four works all related to the theme of art!

Let’s take a walking tour through this issue:

Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

This issue’s Brewer’s Choice is the first collaborative work we’ve featured in Flight, from @kathrynreese.bsky.social and @pleomorphic2.bsky.social

“ I ask for your birthdate as a way to name the time of you, though I hope it will become the time of us.”

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Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

“I am not the heart of anything but lists, chores, errands. You, you are the heart of a storm. The only still point in turbulence.”

We Rename Mondays and Rainstorms by @kathrynreese.bsky.social & @pleomorphic2.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

Paul Luikart- Fiction Rose Parade Some kid knocked and I opened up. Why? I never do that. He was raising money for the band. The band. They were off to Pasadena, he said, for the Rose Parade. I went into my pocket, hand...

Our fiction selection for this issue is the story “Rose Parade” by @paulluikart.bsky.social

“I went into all the reasons I never open my door and barely ever even go out. Chiselers, cheats, grifters, junkies, flunkies, landlords”

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Dominik Slusarczyk- Creative Nonfiction An Analysis of Transfiguration In this painting Jesus is floating near the top, He is surrounded by brightly lit clouds. I think this is a depiction of Jesus rising into Heaven. After he died he wa...

For creative nonfiction, we have work from Dominik Slusarczyk, with his essay “An analysis of Transfiguration”

“Nowadays, we do the Heimlich maneuver. I doubt they had that when Jesus was around but there must have been something else they did.”

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Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

Our poetry selection is “Ars Poetica: Tulips” from @carriganak.bsky.social

“Petals fall into your cereal, soaking in milk and staining Cheerios”

flight-literary.ghost.io/alex-carriga...

Flight 3 is here with four works all related to the theme of art!

Let’s take a walking tour through this issue:

Kathryn Reese & Sumitra Singam- Brewer's Choice Editor's Note: as part of the Brewer's Choice feature for Flight 3, we asked authors Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam to respond to interview questions about their collaborative process. This intervie...

"I want to give up this affinity for air, this habit of making myself light, this repeated way of disappearing and returning: sea, mountain, sea." Gorgeous collaboration in @flightlit.bsky.social b/w@pleomorphic2.bsky.social & @kathrynreese.bsky.social
flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

So chuffed to have a collab with @kathrynreese.bsky.social in @flightlit.bsky.social featuring names and storms, and also a super awkward neurodiverse interview in which I (cringe) say “more clearer or firmer” and that will now haunt me forever 😁 . flight-literary.ghost.io/kathryn-rees...

When you only publish one poem per issue it HAS to be a banger, and @carriganak.bsky.social really delivers

I love @carriganak.bsky.social’s work & the poem in Flight 3 is an absolute stunner.

Flight 3

And read the pieces themselves here!

flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3/

Flight 3 Now Live! Editor's Intro Where Flight 2 reflected the anxieties of the ongoing horrors, Flight 3 turns inward with pieces that focus on art and artistic processes. In Flight 2, we looked at all the submitted w...

Flight 3 is out today! This issue is all about...art!

We have pieces by @carriganak.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @pleomorphic2.bsky.social @paulluikart.bsky.social and Dominik Slusarczyk

Read our editor's note here: flight-literary.ghost.io/flight-3-now...

Flight 3 takes off tomorrow! Right now, our editors are working on preparing a very cool interview with Brewer's Choice feature artists @pleomorphic2.bsky.social and @kathrynreese.bsky.social all about their collaborative process

Flight The idea for Flight: A Literary Sampler, was born 30,000 feet above Los Angeles. One of the editors was hungover, flying back from AWP, still dreaming about the flight of beers they had at a sketchy b...

Hey! We're the featured listing of the day on @duotrope.com

Check us out, and thank you to everyone who has been reporting their submissions!

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First acceptance of 2026 yesterday and it's...not for poetry!
Here's to doing old things new while the world burns.

A few stats for the submission nerds out there!

During our quick response call we:

-received 48 subs
-accepted 3 (one fiction, one essay, one brewer’s choice)

This puts our current acceptance rate at 6%

And although the Paris Review has been silent on the issue, Flight will tell you if Paris is any good or not