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Somebody Please Dump Me Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year.  If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you,

Faking Membership in the Club of Mothers Allison Grace Myers Share article Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next

Stories by and for intersex people are sparse. Throughout history, stigma has prevented intersex authors from publicly sharing their identities, so we don’t have an extensive intersex archive. We don’t yet have an intersex “canon.” But we’re making one. We’re acknowledging and celebrating the legacies we do have. We’re creating legacies for future intersex folks. 

In Brynja Hjálmsdóttir’s first poetry book to be translated into English, women swim in radioactive pools, twist their hair into earthworms, and live in glass balls that are constantly being shaken by someone else. Invoking Old Norse mythology and Icelandic folklore, the poems in A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder satirize our modern society and

Bodies, Lakes, and Other Uninhabitable Places by AJ Romriell Teetering on the edge, I slip from my shoes and take a seat on the sand, surprised at how comfortable it feels. The Great Salt Lake shoreline is behind me, rocky and jagged. This sand is soft, a startling contrast as I wiggle my feet and

For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day (3.5 million per year), reading Electric Lit costs nothing. For the 1,500 writers who submitted their work to us this year, submission also costs nothing.  And yet Electric Lit is not free.  If you read Electric Literature, you already know what we are about: supporting

Florida is one the most diverse and fastest growing states in the United States. It is also, tragically, the epicenter of book banning in America. Thousands of books have been banned from public schools and libraries in an attempt to silence dissenting voices that explore the experiences of diverse, marginalized, and underrepresented communities. To be

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Have you ever read a story about women that was so horrible and so fantastic it made you cringe? Did you cringe because the story depicted a latent female horror, something that could emerge from the seams of our present moment, yet is packaged as fabrication?  You may have been reading a work of speculative

If you’ve read only one book about the Spanish Civil War, chances are it’s either Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls or George Orwell’s memoir Homage to Catalonia. And if you’ve read only two, as to what they might be, I’d confidently push all my chips into the center of the table.  Many

The Mystery of the Haunted Boarding School Bathroom Yáng Shuāng-zǐ Share article Tang-Kue-Tê / Winter Melon Tea by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King “Lí-ya!” A slur for Islanders, used by Mainlanders. Half a year into my time on the Island, Chi-chan and I found ourselves trailing behind F-sensei, a woman teacher and dormitory supervisor

Chill Subs is a lot of things: an intriguing name, a hip alternative to Submittable, and, most of all, a long-awaited disruptor in the literary publishing space. In the guise of a common-sense submission tool for the literary writer (overworked, aspiring, successful, confused, you name it, everyone’s welcome!) the company is quietly upending the way

“All academia is dark academia.” I said it without thinking, a knee-jerk reaction to a literary label that had been assigned to me but always felt ill-fitting. Until that moment—discussing my first novel, If We Were Villains, with the Folger Shakespeare Library book club—I hadn’t really understood why. It was the “dark” modifier I disliked.