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


  • Shooter Ready, Stand By

    “The clay is never where your attention should be—to look for it is to fire a shot long after your target has passed your barrel. Rather, you join a dance with it, keeping it just on the periphery of your focus but never fully acknowledging it.”

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  • Angelica

    “What about the time I laid against you like a ragdoll? My head to your chest, legs out, toddler-ish, my spine curved horribly and bent in two places like the doctor said it would be when I got to be all grown up.”

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  • Girls

    Olivia Murphy-Major is a writer living in Montreal, Canada. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Yolk Literary Magazine, Catamaran Literary Reader, Soliloquies Anthology, and pixie literary magazine. Author Olivia Murphy-Major

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