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Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. That one-sentence descriptor is how you sell the book to publishers, readers, and big Hollywood producers willing to shell out megabucks.

Site designed in collaboration with CMYK. Just find the first letter of your name in column A, the second letter in column B, and so on, and plug them into the pitch letter provided. We Need More Books Without Romance Why it’s so hard to find fiction that doesn’t focus on love and sex—and why that’s a problem

With our handy chart, you can finally figure out the personal essay you were born to write. Electric Literature Submission Manager Powered By Submittable - Accept and Curate Digital Content Welcome to Electric Literature's submissions hub!

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Enjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter on Mondays, absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading on Wednesdays, and a roundup of our best work of the week on Fridays. We are committed to publishing work that is intelligent and unpretentious, elevating new voices, and examining how literature and storytelling can help illuminate social justice issues and current events. We have a number of categories, including Essays, Novel Gazing, Recommended Reading, and The Commuter.. Our mission is to amplify the power of storytelling with digital innovation, and to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture by supporting writers, embracing new technologies, and building community to broaden the audience for literature.

Powered by WordPress and hosted by Pressable. If you run out of letters in your first name, move on to your last—so, for example, Vin Diesel would write “a passionate story about an unlucky mother’s failure to explore her writer’s block.” Or you could just spell out whatever word comes to mind.

The Electric Literature auto-publicist pitch generator does all that work for you—and it’s easy to use! Please support our work by, Going to AWP? Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009.

Site designed in collaboration with CMYK. The trouble is figuring out what to write about. Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009.

We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven't read yet. Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009.

Enjoy strange, diverting work from The Commuter on Mondays, absorbing fiction from Recommended Reading on Wednesdays, and a roundup of our best work of the week on Fridays.

"Not a Foodie," a comic by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, An excerpt from "Pink Mountain on Locust Island" by Jamie Marina Lau, recommended by Chaya Bhuvaneswar. So for instance, if you’re Joan Didion, you’d look for J in column A, O in column B, A in C, N in D, and D (for Didion) in E—for the result “Dear whoever, please consider my multimedia essay about how writing about a horrible goose taught me the value of family.” Ms. Didion: we’ll take it.

Play Electric Lit’s AWP Bingo, INFOGRAPHIC: The Author Behind the Pseudonym. But how do you generate a killer pitch—especially when you don’t have a novel yet? Second of all, you would look up “b” in column A, “e” in column B, “y” in column C, “o” in column D, and so forth, and then plug them into the sentence below. Our mission is to amplify the power of storytelling with digital innovation, and to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture by

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If you’re Beyoncé, for instance: first of all, welcome, we’re glad you read the site.

Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009. The result: “A keenly observed war epic about an overbearing mistress’s quest to grapple with her sexless marriage.” We can’t wait to read it, Ms. Carter-Knowles!

Get lit twice a week with strange, diverting writing from The Commuter every Monday, and immersive fiction introduced by your favorite writers every Wednesday in Recommended Reading. Electric Literature is a nonprofit publication committed to making literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. They have deadlines associated with some of their calls for specific types of stories, so look at their submission guidelines for thorough details on everything they’re looking for. Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009. The Electric Literature auto-publicist pitch generator does all that work for you—and it’s easy to use!

Electric Literature is a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009. Our mission is to amplify the power of storytelling with digital innovation, and to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture by supporting writers, embracing new technologies, and building community to broaden the audience for literature. Specifically, it was hidden in the letters of your first name.

Who Needs an MFA When You Have This Literary Fiction Trope Checklist?

(If you run out of letters in your first name, move on to your last—or throw your middle name in there, do what you want, we’re not your dad.) (The first seven letters of “Electric Lit” give you “an erotic noir about an agoraphobic daughter’s expedition to circumvent her political apathy.”).

Whether you’re promoting a novel, shopping a memoir, or simply trying to get your first byline, it seems like everyone wants to write personal essays.

Personalize your subscription preferences here. In speculative fiction, I can center the disabled experience in a way that feels more real than realism, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, author of "Children of the Land," on recording his family history, "Advice for the Haunted" by Rachel Swearingen, recommended by Caitlin Horrocks, Agustina Bazterrica's novel "Tender Is the Flesh" uses cannibalism to raise questions about the ethics of meat, Emily Hashimoto, author of "A World Between," on who gets to tell the stories of women in love. Like the victims of Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey," we are trying to forge connections as we stare down the abyss, Ten questions about teaching writing with the James Beard Award-nominated essayist, Six extraordinary emerging writers will receive grants of $30,000 each, Adam Wilson recommends books that push us out of complacency and force us to stare at our ugliest selves. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. Get new fiction, essays, and poetry delivered to your inbox. Our mission is to amplify the power of storytelling with digital innovation, and to ensure that literature remains a vibrant presence in popular culture by supporting writers, embracing new technologies, and building community to broaden the audience for literature. INFOGRAPHIC: What age do writers publish their most famous works. Powered by WordPress and hosted by Pressable. Support our mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
Kacen Callender’s "Queen of the Conquered" faces issues of oppression, privilege, and complicity head on, If you're lost for ideas, spend some time with the world's foremost archive of fart performers, toddler eaters, and Go-playing ghosts, Include all 25 tropes and you'll probably get a Pulitzer, Start with “Aren’t we all essentially alone?”. If you’re Beyoncé, for instance: first of all, welcome, we’re glad you read the site.

Well, your best bet might be to pay a professional publicist. Support our mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Who came up with this, and why do they hate me? Support our mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. How to Write Your Debut Book’s Acknowledgments Section.

Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. Second of all, you would look up “b” in column Electric Literature is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009.

It’s the elevator pitch.

We publish your favorite authors—even the ones you haven't read yet. Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Well, we have good news: the answer was in you all along. Electric Literature had a piece on this a couple years ago about non-binary characters and how we need more non-binary characters who aren’t aliens or robots. Electric Literature publishes content surrounding the influence of storytelling (literature, film, television, art) in culture, including critical essays as well as personal essays.