On Mangrove by Bill Hollands by Tyler Truman Julian The pleasure derived from reading narrative, deeply personal poems rests somewhere between voyeuristic enterprise and intimate dinner date. Some...

ELJ  Editions is creating a beautiful tear-away desk calendar for 2027, featuring one powerful piece of micro fiction or nonfiction daily. We’d love you to be part of it!  Guidelines:  Send u...

by Charlotte Hamrick I’m sitting in the carport of my childhood home sometime in the 1970s. I’m barefoot because it’s summer and I’m often barefoot in summer, the soles of my feet toughened from wa…

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

by Rachel M. Hollis I’d never believed in ghosts, at least not the translucent, floating kind. But there he was on a Tuesday morning, folding my shirts in the laundry room. The instant he saw me, h…

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

by Claudia Monpere You meet the eight-year-old girl and her mother who live next door when they dash through your back yard chasing their escaped chickens, the clucking chaos a golden spiral spinni…

Emerge Literary Journal: 2026 Editor’s Note Welcome to Emerge Literary Journal’s Issue 36! What a joy and honor it has been to put together this gorgeous collection of fiction and creative no…

by Mikki Aronoff and Kathryn Silver-Hajo And she’s whole again. Sassy. Play with me! Play! Poppy’s lying at my feet, splaying her front paws out on the rug, mouth stretched wide, tongue lolling. Is…

When our narrator’s house is reclaimed by the wilderness, she embarks with her Pooch on a rambling and rollicking journey. She meets undead deer and living skeletons, travels through dream worlds and ...

Scrap: Salvaging a Family is a hybrid flash memoir tracing the long shadow of childhood fear and the complexities of forgiving a dying parent. As a daughter uncovers her father’s painful origins, she ...

Not to exceed 120,000 words. "A story is a complete dramatic action..." ~ Flannery O'Connor   We want quality fiction that grabs us and  doesn't let go. Stories we wish we had written. We're looking  ...

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by Elizabeth Rosen The only sounds as we sat on the dock, mother and daughter, our backs to the rising sun and bare legs dangling over the weathered boards of the pier, were the occasional splashes…

by Elena Zhang Yes, enough to follow the boy my age down to the church basement, enough to forget our parents singing to God with their arms up as we go below, enough to ignore the desks stacked ag…

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Review: Bill Hollands’ Mangrove By Evan Green Bill Hollands’s debut collection, Mangrove (published by ELJ Editions, 2025), takes readers through poems of nostalgia, grief, and family, primarily se…

When our narrator’s house is reclaimed by the wilderness, she embarks with her Pooch on a rambling and rollicking journey. She meets undead deer and living skeletons, travels through dream worlds and ...

"A story is a complete dramatic action..." ~ Flannery O'Connor ELJ Editions appreciates the difficult writers have in placing longer stories. We want quality fiction that grabs us and doesn't let g...

Adeline Song is on the run. The US government has started to hunt down people like her. But when Adeline crosses paths with mechanic Finley Reyes, she must decide whether she will let other people con...