9+ hour, 27+ min ago  (238+ words) The Gothic is a genre with recognizable tropes: witches and vampires, haunted houses and cobwebby tombs. It's eerie, it's morbid, it's campy and over the top. When I was writing my novel Immersions, based on the fairy tale "Bluebeard," I…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (152+ words) But very quickly, the appearance of an ordinary road trip gives way to something else. At a pit stop, Derf walks into a Panera Bread and the narrator checks on Trunk Girl. That's how it happens, without preamble. In the…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (187+ words) The below books examine what it means for queer and trans people to weather coming of age, falling in love, finding and losing family and community, all on the Canadian prairies. They challenge the notion that community can only be…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1690+ words) " Kimberly Campanello Author of An Interesting Detail You should know that when I found the body I did not scream. On the phone, I feigned humanity. I performed the inflections of a person overwhelmed and confused, but the fact was…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (700+ words) I was eager to speak with Rachel about the many perspectives, vibrant characters, and not-so-miserable city at the heart of the novel. I was terribly grateful she met me at Pig Mind Brewing (which I can confirm is incredible) to…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (68+ words) A poem by M. Lopes da Silva I felt hunted by him, but legally, his routine was treated as a hobby, like birdwatching These books are filled with deaths, exiles, and the terror of seeking truth in a culture that wants…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1734+ words) Three years ago I broke my brain. Or, I should say, my brain was broken by grief. That summer my graduate mentor, the writer Aurelie Sheehan, died after a swift and truncated battle with terminal brain cancer. I first learned…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago  (203+ words) Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of Distortion by Kathryn Bromwich, which will be published on March 9, 2027 by Two Dollar Radio. You can pre-order your copy here. A knife-sharp, deliciously sexy story about a young actress and the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (478+ words) At age 12, Sara Novi" went deaf, but not all at once. First, she lost the wind, then the dripping of a leaky faucet, and then certain consonants. She writes in her memoir, "What is a mother tongue, and how do…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (110+ words) Electric Literature Russell Brakefield is the author of the collections Field Recordings, My Modest Blindness, and Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program and is an Assistant Professor…...