Photo by Geran de Klerk on Unsplash Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal […]
The following is from Veronica Raimo’s Lost on Me . Raimo is the author of four novels, the most recent of which, Lost On Me (Niente di Vero) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega Prize and won the Strega Off Prize, the Strega Giovani Prize and the Viareggio Rèpaci Prize. Her 2019 novel The Girl […]
Leopoldine Core’s aura photo, courtesy of the author. For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. Leopoldine Core’s “ Ex-Stewardess ” appears in our new Summer issue, no. 244. How did this poem start for you? Was it with an image, an idea, a […]
As owner and music educator at her Songwriting for Kids studio in Brunswick, Maine , Josephine Cameron takes her students through different musical genres and eras, teaching them how to play instruments, write songs, and embrace their creativity. When she’s not teaching, singing, playing the piano, or writing songs and poems, Cameron writes novels about […]
The beautiful is always bizarre. —Charles Baudelaire A SUI GENERIS strangeness suffuses the work of Thomas Ligotti, lingering like an ancient air—odd or archaic choices of vocabulary; prose set to an uncommon rhythm and canted cadences to keep you unsettled; a pervasive chill of nihilism; and ambiguities, awful and awesome, creeping along the caliginous corridors […]
Bodily functions rarely get the spotlight in fiction and poetry. But for some writers, they drive action and help create indelible characters. The infamous men’s room at the now-defunct music club C.B.G.B. in Manhattan.Credit…GODLIS June 26, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut he wanted to make a film that would examine […]
In This Body I Wore, I’d set out to write a pre -transition literary memoir, which in my case meant capturing the lived reality of being trans and not knowing it, for fifty years. Capturing an experience is very different from explaining it. To explain it would be to impose a current understanding onto a […]
Bodily functions rarely get the spotlight in fiction and poetry. But for some writers, they drive action and help create indelible characters. The infamous men’s room at the now-defunct music club C.B.G.B. in Manhattan.Credit…GODLIS Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut he wanted to make a film that would examine a city entirely through food and, […]
A robot at a typewriter University students, virtually everyone agrees, ought to learn to write well. Writing is an essential skill for academic and professional life, and so, across disciplines, we teach students to compose essays, reports, research papers and literature reviews. We want them to develop a command of language, an understanding of structure […]
Photo courtesy of the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference (SBWC) By Bonnie Carroll The long awaited 50th Anniversary Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference came back bigger and better than ever, attracting a record number of participants from around the U.S., including members who have attended for over thirty years, as well as many first timers. The 2023 […]
