"I may have said some inflammatory statements that made you uncomfortable. Inflammatory statements about race — I know, I know, who talks about race in a creative writing MFA program?" (via @McSweeneys.net)

The survival of literary magazines like Electric Lit—an independent, nonprofit publication that is completely free to read—is far from guaranteed. Help us meet our fundraising goal so that we can keep people reading!

Me and SLIME LINE author Jake Maynard discussed humor that risks, the line between community and authority, and the significance of bears for The Southern Review 🧸Check it! thesouthernreview.org/blog/a-write...

National Book Award finalist and renowned middle child Alejandro Varela tells us about being gay while heartbroken (@drovarela.bsky.social) buff.ly/oW5GR6Q

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Anyone else feeling newly #hopeful this week? 💡 📖 💕🧠

Interviewed Brandon Taylor for Electric Literature! 💡 Very fun very fast electricliterature.com/brandon-tayl...

Jalen Giovanni Jones (@jalengjones.bsky.social) interviews Brandon Taylor ahead of his latest novel, “Minor Black Figures,” where they discuss books with talking animals, the best and worst writing advice, and how more people need to realize when a novel should be a short story.

My best friend just got a new poem published and it’s glorious :,) read it here! www.blush-lit.com/journal?fbcl...

Halloween costume ideas for your favorite writer trio friend group 🎃 👻 ‼️ Who are you going as?

This insane crossover of my worlds — Claire from UCI and Josh from LSU 🛸

The creator of this meme also writes short stories and shows no signs of stopping soon

Electric Lit as iconic summer albums past and present 💡 ⚡ 🌞 What album covers should we do next? 👀

There's kinda no better feeling tbh 🐬💖🌈

White passing and white presenting are mistakenly used interchangeably in modern parlance, when in fact historically there was a clear distinction. buff.ly/zcVG5oa

buff.ly/1P4fsHK These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)

“A time to recognize the literary translators whose intense, sustained work has led to the publication of these and other brilliant works of literature, which otherwise would remain unknown to a wider, international audience.” (@ilzeduarte.bsky.social)

www.npr.org/transcripts/... Loved this

Books that embrace a literary archive of shared colonial histories, currents of Black Atlantic world-making, and diasporic relations to the continent of Africa. buff.ly/Pg0csAv

“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social) buff.ly/eMTrpBt

Join us for the launch of the greatly anticipated "Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color," featuring editor Denne Michele Norris and contributors Denny Burhan, Edgar Gomez, and Meredith Talusan! ⚡💡

Now on shelves wherever you buy books, Both/And is edited by Electric Lit’s own Denne Michele Norris, and features 17 eclectic essays by trans and gender non-conforming writers of color from all walks of life, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery. buff.ly/pbjaYzn

The anthology you’ve all been waiting for is almost here! Read Denne Michele Norris's (@thedennemichele.bsky.social) introduction to “Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color” — available for preorder now, and hitting shelves August 12th! buff.ly/ectABao

We write to share the tragic news that Electric Literature's former Deputy Editor, Jo Lou, passed away on July 8, 2025. What she meant to our community cannot be measured. To memorialize Jo, we have gathered tributes from EL staff and contributors. Please join us in remembering her buff.ly/ZmOEUDR

We're thrilled to announce our 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop NONFICTION scholars! We're proud to know them, and to be able to celebrate them. We can't wait to read whatever they write next!!! Please give these wonderful folks their flowers! #thsw ⁠🥳🥳🥳

A sweet story in two parts :) 💡 🐕 🐾

"Every work of art is the wreck of a perfect idea... I have found when I plot things out too clearly, when I know too much, I lose interest or a desire to continue working. Perhaps this is because the idea is already too perfect and I can see more clearly how I am wrecking it."

Join us in supporting Bookshop's anti-prime sale, by visiting our bookshop page and checking out our staff picks! Every purchase made will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires. And through to tomorrow, Bookshop will be offering FREE shipping! Act fast: buff.ly/rX8cnha

Check out some of my fav books! Let me know if you pick up any today :) bookshop.org/lists/jalen-...

“I wanted you to will the earth to swallow the cop at my door.”

"I was sort of bored of disability poetics... and became fascinated [by] how visual art could both be about disability, yes, but could also be made accessible in experience. I felt like I needed something like that for disability poetics, that I hadn't encountered yet."

We won't back down in the face of artistic suppression, but we need your help. EL needs to raise $25,000 by the end of this month to protect our literary future and continue publishing voices this administration wants to silence. Donate now: buff.ly/rZ09QQ1

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Don't you just love summer trips to the pool? 😊

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A story about longing for connection, and finding it with the Wordle bot.

"Reading through Rob’s debut collection, there’s this perpetual feeling that all is accounted and cared for." @jalengjones.bsky.social talks to Hardly Creatures' author Rob Macaisa Colgate for @electricliterature.com! electricliterature.com/the-poems-in...

Jalen Giovanni Jones (@jalengjones.bsky.social‬) speaks with Rob Macaisa Colgate about his debut poetry collection “Hardly Creatures,” meeting the needs of your readers, and why he’s bored of the current state of disability poetics. buff.ly/ncagxjb

Read Jalen Giovanni Jones’s (@jalengjones.bsky.social) essay on the Met Gala, and how this year’s theme embodies the revolutionary spirit of the Black dandy. buff.ly/Vae2g9X

Met Gala looks as book covers thread! ✨ How'd we do? Did your favorite make the cut? Kicking things off with Zendaya x "Beloved" by Toni Morrison🕴️

First post on bsky! Today I had a short essay published in @electricliterature.com, commenting on the utter coolness of this year’s Met Gala theme🤵🏽📸✨ Give it a read if you’re cool too! Also, plz retweet (re-sky?) to help me find my people on here! 🤩 electricliterature.com/the-met-gala...