About Us

Epiphany is a semiannual print and online literary journal and an independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that supports practicing writers at every stage of their careers. During our open reading periods we consider every submission seriously. With our Breakout contest and Fresh Voices Fellowship we honor both student writers and writers of color. We also publish online essays, fiction, and poetry on a rolling basis. For 20 years we have published work that transcends convention and demonstrates literary mastery.

Our name derives from the Joycean idea that an epiphany is the moment when “the soul of the commonest object… seems to us radiant.” Like the semicolon in our logo, an epiphany is a pause followed by a shift. Like the semicolon, an epiphany can consist of a confluence between two ideas. Like the semicolon, an epiphany is both a part of language and outside of it.

So send us your best work. Work that both resists and embraces language. Work that draws connections where we never thought to look. Work that evokes or examines or simply mirrors for us this strange condition of being human. Fill us up; leave us wondering.

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PUBLISHER
Willard Cook

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Noreen Tomassi

WEB EDITOR
Jose Diego Medina

PROSE EDITOR
Chris Leslie-Hynan

CONTRIBUTING FEATURES EDITOR
Jamie Kahn

READERS
Steve Bargdill, Violeta Orozco Barrera, Julia Blume, Andrea Bryan-Campos, Julia Carpenter, Jon Chopan, Devlin Cooper, Manasi Diwakar, Aimee Griffin, Blue Guldal, Michele Lent Hirsch, Brady Huggett, Scott Hunter, Michael Juliani, Jamie Kahn, Daniel Kuo, Cyrena Lee, Beth Ann Mastromarino, Anastasia McClendon, Hannah Meyer, Whitney Porter, Peter Prokesch, Maggie Riggs, Ashley Rubell, Kandala Singh, Rachel Hinkel Wang

PATRONS
Justin Alvarez, Una Baker, The Eric and Barbara Carle Foundation, John & Brooke Cook, The Cook Family Fund, Counterpoint Press, Alexandra Dell, Louise Eastman, George Franklin, Stephen Henderson & James LaForce, Elizabeth Grey,Literary Hub, Sarah Lutz & John van Rens, Deborah McAlister, Karen Rosenkrantz, Vijay Seshadri, Dorothy Spears, Laura Stone, Kristin Vukovic

FRIENDS OF EPIPHANY
Elsie Aidinoff, Christopher Baker, Sallie Bingham, Vicky Bijur Literary Agency, Kenneth & Nina Bryant, Vicky Bjur Literary Agency, Heleny Cook, Rebecca J. Cook, Warren & Brammie Cook, Don Cummings, Lisa Dierbeck, Elizabeth England, Marian Fontana, Yoko Fukuda, Haruko Fukuda, Eiko Fukuda, Ann Goldstein, Jeffrey Gustavson, Odette Heideman, Michele Herman, Edward Hirsch, Lisa Kaufman, Etgar Keret, Andre Lockwood, Elizabeth Macklin, Wendy Mark, Susie Marples & Nelson Young, Domingo Martinez, Jerry & Naomi Neuwirth, Mary Norris, Edith Pearlman, Whitney Porter Monica Racic, Roxana Robinson, Halee Sage & David Friedman, Vicki Scher & John Hecht, Philip Schultz & Monica Banks, Jay & Bonnie Stockwell, Wendy Weaver, Cynthia Weiner, John Edgar Wideman, Bennett Windheim, Oliver Will & Kim Beck.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Justin Alvarez, Gaby Chaiban, Willard Cook, Alexandra Dell, Zack Graham, Brittney Inman, Yoojin Na, Arys Nogueron, Teresa Toro

MAGAZINE ADVISORY
Vicky Bijur, Elizabeth England, Susie Marples, Dorothy Spears

WEB DESIGN
Rachel Lyon

Contact Us

To submit to Epiphany,
or to apply for an internship,
please visit our Submittable page.

For all other inquiries,
use this form.