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 A Passage North, the protagonist, Krishan, grapples with the legacies of the tragic Sri Lankan civil war between the Sinhalese and
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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. Save me, I’ve been feeling so aloneI keep waiting for you, but you never comeIs this in my head? I don’t know
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 suppose an unmarried woman just over thirty, who lives alone and has no apparent ties, must expect to find herself involved
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. Everyone has something to say in Jaime Cortez’s debut collection of short fiction, Gordo. There’s Raymundo, the town’s openly gay hairdresser who
Finding First Love Under a Beach Blanket Reena Shah 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. “Chowpatty Beach” by Reena Shah Naren was in sixth standard when Velinda
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Photo by Steven Taylor / Flickr The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s first novel, is textually connected to the works of Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison, to name a few. Forthcoming from HarperCollins on August 24, the novel recounts
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. Yoon Choi’s debut short story collection has a striking cover: two figures, simply and starkly outlined in solid colors, embrace amidst darkness.
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. Silvia Moreno Garcia’s latest novel Velvet Was the Night takes us to Mexico City in the ’70s where we meet Maite, a
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. Over the last decade there has been a push towards better representation in visual media. While movies and television have provided more
A dizzying debut with something to say and a story to tell, David Heska Wanbli Weiden’s Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020) takes crime novel conventions and recasts them in a fresh, uniquely Native context. Named after the pictorial calendars of Lakota tradition, Winter Counts is narrated in the voice of vigilante-for-hire Virgil Wounded Horse as he
Postcard for One City One Book Hong Kong 2020, which featured Xi Xi’s My City The Shanghai-born Hong Kong writer Xi Xi (b. 1937) was the 2019 winner of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and Sweden’s Cikada Prize. A selection of her poetry translated by Jennifer Feeley from Chinese into English, Not Written Words, won
One Lotto Ticket Away From Living the Dream 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. WHEN MY DAD CALLS Set for Life I’m scratching tickets right now I won
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. Campus novels are nostalgic. The historic brick buildings, the quiet libraries, and the green quads create a romantic setting, one that’s usually
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 never planned on becoming a home mixologist, or a mixologist of any kind. In fact, for much of my early drinking
Who You Are Lives Within You The best experiences we have in life have been created in our hearts, with the help of our imaginations… Genre: Nonfiction, Self-Love, Self-Help, Empowerment, Spiritual, Reinventing Date Published: August 8, 2021 In a time of emotional upheaval, change, and uncertainty, The House offers us a story of hope, with
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 stories in The Rock Eaters often have an elastic relationship with reality, familiar political landscapes or emotional struggles warped by the
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. You might be fooled from the opening of Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020) that this is a Black woman’s story. The film opens
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. Nawaaz Ahmed has a particular talent for fiction that captures the spaces in between distant bodies. When we were both MFA students