Writers in Residence at Porter Porter Square Books began its Writers in Residence program back in 2019, awarding nine-month residencies to two writers, one writing for adults and one for children, and applications are open now for the 2025 edition, running Feb. 1 to Oct. 31 of next year. Residents receive a 40 percent discount […]
The first time I heard the phrase Tell it to me singing , I was in college. I called my best friend Tony, who, like me, is Cuban American and grew up in Miami, and he answered the phone, “Tell it to me singing!” “Huh?” I said. “It means ‘¡Dímelo cantando!’” I knew what it […]
This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. Read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction from previous years, here . To please his mother, a writer attempts a children’s story. The mother doesn’t usually read fiction but will read a children’s story and, if it’s good, show it to all […]
Credit…Rebecca Clarke By the Book Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to me.” Credit…Rebecca Clarke What books are on your night stand? I’m neck-deep in […]
Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of The Rose by Ariana Reines, a poetry collection which will be published by Graywolf Press on April 15th 2025. You can pre-order your copy here . In The Rose , award-winning poet Ariana Reines explores the intersection of rage and surrender. Drawing on the lineage of […]
When I was in the early days of my MFA program, I listened to instrumental music while I was writing. Explosions In the Sky, maybe something classical if I was feeling particularly sophisticated. But then around six or seven years ago, I began listening to music with lyrics while I wrote. I don’t really remember […]
