Bitter is an indie literary magazine that seeks out experimental and visceral work.


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  • Death of Dreams

    Monica Funk is a mixed-media collage artist based in Eudora, Kansas. She draws on her education and experiences in these ecologically and socially unprecedented times to contemplate, critique, joke, and acknowledge where we’ve been and where we’re headed.

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  • Female Rage

    Kyndel Whiteford is a multidisciplinary artist from New Jersey. She commonly uses self portraiture and still life scenes to discuss themes of gender, attraction, and consumption. She is currently working to earn her BFA in photography at Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston, MA.

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  • There Are Coyotes in Graceland

    “The cut is wide across her palm. A butcher’s kiss. The guilty knife lies at the bottom of the sink. A chef’s knife. There is nothing on the counter it could have been cutting.”

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