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brittlepaper.com /2 weeks ago

Electric Literature Is Launching Its First-Ever Emerging Writers Contest | $1,000 Prize, Publication, and a Residency |...

Electric Literature, the nonprofit literary platform that has spent seventeen years dedicated to uplifting emerging writers, has launched its very first Emerging Writers Contest, w...

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bookriot.com /2 weeks ago

Essential American Literature, According to PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Publishers Weekly picks 15 essential works of American literature, Barnes & Noble announces this year's Discover Prize winner, and more.

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

A Meaningful Chapter in a Continuing Story

For the last several years as Electric Literature’s Managing Editor, grant writing has been a component of my job description. For those unfamiliar with the work, it is almost enti...

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electricliterature.com /6 days ago

The Small Press Titles You Don’t Want To Miss This Summer

Small presses have long been the home of the debut short story collection. I absolutely love short stories, and even I sometimes am overwhelmed by the number of debut story collect...

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theparisreview.org /1 month ago

The Vanishing Library: Timothy Ely’s Odd Little Book from Outer Space

“The few words it contains are indecipherable, of no language. (The letters look Hebrew—if you don’t know Hebrew and have never seen Hebrew letters before.)”

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

A Serial Killer Walks Into a Bookstore

The Last Reader I’m just sitting down at a table at the back of the bookstore café with a stack of books and an iced coffee, and the woman at the next table, thirtyish, dreadlocks,...

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electricliterature.com /3 weeks ago

Andrew Sean Greer Refuses to Kill His Darlings

Like so many others (including the Pulitzer Prize committee), I read Andrew Sean Greer’s Less in 2017 and was endlessly charmed by the singularity of Greer’s voice. Rollicking thro...

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vulture.com /1 month ago

How Lit Mags Are Dealing With AI-Slop Submissions

“You don’t have to be an AI booster to think ‘catching people out’ is a poor use of the literary community’s energy.”

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futurism.com /1 month ago

Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story

Nothing is sacred. The post Top Literary Magazine Offers Bizarre Response to Accusations That It Published an AI-Generated Short Story appeared first on Futurism.

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electricliterature.com /3 days ago

Being a Novelist Only Costs Romantic Compromises and Debilitating Debt

An excerpt from Famous Men by Julie Buntin At the Selden Awards, you’re Nathaniel’s guest, with your own seat at the best table. Two years and change, you say to the woman who asks...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

A Stunning New Romantasy Set in New Orleans

Plus, Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams shares his favorite books, a Black speculative lit magazine goes on hiatus, and more.

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oxfordstudent.com /1 month ago

Reading poetry in acid rain

“NO GREAT FUTURE AWAITS YOU ON A DEAD PLANET”. When I first came across this line in Paul Ewen’s Lessons, it encapsulated a response unique to our time. It bluntly acknowledges our...

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mashable.com /1 month ago

Literary devices: What BookTok content creator Ayman keeps in her bag

Content creator AymansBooks on her favorite books, e-readers, and the gear she relies on as a BookTok regular

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

I Store My Demons Next to the Pickled Beets

Ball Jar Demon The demon lasted a good month, emitting low moans and sandpaper coughs into her ear, before Celia found an old Ball jar in the cellar, plucked the being off the cutt...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

The Best Latine Books of 2026 So Far

The best Latine books of 2026 so far include a meditation on the power of poetry, two Gothic horror reads, a Peter Pan retelling set in WWI, and more.

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wired.com /1 month ago

Literary Prizewinners Are Facing AI Allegations. It Feels Like the New Normal

Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

The Buzziest Summer Reading Books of 2026

In today's literary headlines: the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards, the buzziest summer reading books, and an adaptation cancellation.

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electricliterature.com /1 month ago

The Gothic Is a Gateway to Literature’s Most Enduring Themes

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...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

Where the Extraordinary is Ordinary

The supernatural is mundane in these must-read magical realism and fabulism novels, from historical fantasy inspired by Taino mythology to anticolonial spec fic.

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omanobserver.om /4 weeks ago

Lights Out: The poetry community bringing writers together in Oman

After graduating from university in the United States, poet and author Qais al Habsi found himself missing the writing spaces he had grown used to.“I used to participate in open mi...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

The Most Popular Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of the Past 3 Years

What will be the Great American Novel in 250 years? Plus, the most popular recent sci-fi and fantasy novels, Romancing the Vote, and more.

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theparisreview.org /1 week ago

Hélène Bessette and the Novel as Arc Lamp

“Though a novel, the book can also be read as a cacophonous speech-collage-turned-philosophical-investigation of crime and punishment.”

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addisonindependent.com /2 weeks ago

Curated article

“The pace of the sonnets just pulls you through along with the narrative arc."

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theparisreview.org /4 weeks ago

Announcing Our Summer Issue

Featuring interviews with Harryette Mullen and Yan Lianke, prose by Lucy Ellmann and Chigozie Obioma, poetry by Frederick Seidel, and a cover by Alex Da Corte.

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