If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. My partner was late coming home from work, again, and my daughter was flopped on the floor sobbing because she had asked
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If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. It is midday, and table girls are just getting into the flow of their shift as punters come in, loosening their ties.
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. The Indian Government decriminalized queer sex a little over two years ago. The law— section 377 of the Indian Penal code, a
Improvisational Parenting in Rural Oklahoma Savannah Johnston Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. “Shells I” by Savannah Johnston Tommy wasn’t ready to go home. It had
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In our series “Can Writing Be Taught?” we partner with Catapult to ask their course instructors all our burning questions about the
Best Selling Author, Rhonda Swan is taking her book Women Gone Wild, ‘The Feminine Guide to Fearless Living’ where 22 conscious Female Leaders shared stories of transcending their pain into pure purpose and intentionally abundant lives, into an International Women’s Summit. September 28th kicks off the 4 Day Journey of Live Interactive Sessions broadcasting direct
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. As a Filipino American immigrant, I’ve been aware of my invisibility from the time I set foot in the United States. I
I Love to Hate My Gilmore Girls Obsession If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. There is No Chocolate Ice Cream in Stars Hollow or On Getting Help for
Winnowing down to essentials during a pandemic, a writer with too much time to think cleans out her closet and immediately regrets letting go of a sweater. We’ve all been there, right? When a sweater isn’t just a sweater and our most rigorous tasks can’t bring the relief we seek. Within weeks the plague had
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. I don’t want to read about mangoes. Their freshness, their sweetness, their broadleaf trees with laden boughs. I don’t want to read
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Books and tattoos have one major thing in common: ink. Maybe that’s why book-lovers like getting literary tattoos so much. A few
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Dear Reader, Hi! With this note, I’m inviting all of you, our generous, thoughtful Electric Literature readers, to come with me on
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. Within the confines of a few hundred pages, it can be difficult for a character to be read as bisexual unless explicitly
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In Shruti Swamy’s lyrical debut novel, The Archer—a coming of age narrative set in 1960s and 1970s Bombay—Vidya’s formative years are upended
Series editor’s note: In this week’s poem, the speaker finds himself to be on the outside, looking in with an ever-watchful gaze, pondering all the water in the sky, as if he himself has been through fire and back, and somehow was made more alive than ever. But the implication here is not endurance out
If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be the first to know about upcoming submissions periods and virtual events. In 2012, upon the publication of my first novel, Flatscreen, I was asked to write a short essay about Jewish identity for
A Young Dancer’s First Glimpse of Her Future Shruti Swamy The winner of two O. Henry Awards, Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body. Share article If you enjoy reading Electric Literature, join our mailing list! We’ll send you the best of EL each week, and you’ll be
Photo by Connie Smothermon In the lead-up to National Punctuation Day (September 24), we asked writers and translators to comment on their favorite mark of punctuation. Is it the question mark? The semicolon? That quiet director of traffic, the comma? Read on and share your own ode to punctuation in the comments. Richard Blanco An