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


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  • Universal Joy

    Jacqueline W. is a Black collage artist residing in Philadelphia, PA. Her work focuses on surreal scenes and dreamlike states that feel new, yet somehow familiar. Her goal in any work she creates is for the viewer to rest their eyes on the image and get lost in a new world for a spell. 

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  • AN ALIEN’S GUIDE TO GETTING OUT OF HERE

    “An orange sky, a rounded landscape, the architecture familiar and comforting. Everything you touch there touches you back”

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  • Errands Vivid

    Originally from New York, Emily Zweibel is a self-taught analog collage artist based in Mexico City. Her work explores the surreal landscapes that exist just beneath the surface of the everyday. She juxtaposes dualities — whimsy and foreboding, fragmentation and synthesis, mundane and extraordinary — to create a strange familiar, inviting you to find the…

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