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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Poems live on @electricliterature.com The Commuter today! Thank you to @kellyluce.bsky.social for giving this work on desire and longing and memory and video games and problematic pop music and expensive soft felted snails a home. ✨ electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

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The Delicious Hell of a New Jersey Sex Dungeon - Electric Literature

Two poems by Nat Mesnard

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Will VanDenBerg @wvandenberg12.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New fiction at The Commuter today! Many thanks to @kellyluce.bsky.social and the team at Electric Lit for picking this one up.

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Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Hugely grateful to @kellyluce.bsky.social for publishing this one in The Commuter!

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

If you can get to Rome over Thanksgiving, for $550 you can do a writing retreat in a Tuscan monastery including room, board, & transport. 6 days. $550. I’m teaching fiction, Chuck Carlise poetry. Program thru Ashland U but you need not be affiliated. #amwriting #writingretreat

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

any literary agents here near Cleveland or Columbus, OH?

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Today in @texasmonthly.bsky.social, @dgachman.bsky.social writes about THE SLIP, about the real gym that inspired it, and how a gay Massachusetts twentysomething with artistic aspirations (me 👋🏼) ended up there. 🥊

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Just finished reading a collection of Van Gogh's letters and loved the peek into his mind. What other collections of letters by artists, writers, or otherwise fascinating people do you love?

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 06/05/2025

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🕴️

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 01/05/2025

Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae

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Why Electric Literature Is Leaving Twitter - Electric Literature

X has become a dystopian shadow of itself—and a very bad place for literature

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Monica Iyer @monicavisalam.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hey friends, just in case this is useful information for anyone, bookshop.org is doing a special sale on climate and community organizing books for the next couple of days, there's some very cool stuff for 20% off.

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Wish weather apps alerted us about rainbows and not just rain

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

📢 It's free to submit, and we pay! 📢

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The first assessment of THE SLIP has arrived, and it’s a starred review from Kirkus. I won’t play it cool—this was definitely on the writer bucket list! Grateful for their kind words. THE SLIP comes out 6/3 from @simonbooks.bsky.social!

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 31/03/2025

Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility by revisiting our Both/And essay series, filled with stories of invisibility and hypervisibility, sexy stories, dreams and love and grief, told fearlessly and honestly by trans and gender nonconforming writers of color.

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Both/And

An new limited essay series centering the voices of trans and gender noncomforming writers of color

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 26/03/2025

Two poems about the tense relationship between a queer person and his less-than-accepting mother. (@mickiepoet.bsky.social)

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Mom Can't Bribe Me Out of My Queerness - Electric Literature

Two poems by Mickie Kennedy

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

gotta hand it to @electricliterature.com for taking a stance and not applying for nea funding under this administration. here's part of their reasoning from today's email -- this is a MUST-READ for writers.

Screenshot from Electric Literature's email: "Earlier this year, the NEA released new compliance guidelines that, pursuant to an executive order that seeks to “restore biological truth to the federal government,” require applicants to certify that their programs do not promote “gender ideology.” Federal funding is contingent on this certification. The ACLU is challenging this requirement, but as of this writing, the case is unresolved.

Frustrated and uncertain, I found myself, along with other editors, asking insidious questions like, “Does publishing trans writers constitute promoting gender ideology?” But to pursue this line of questioning is in itself a moral compromise. The term “gender ideology” is not only condescending, but like so much fascistic vocabulary, it is also unintelligible. I may not know what “gender ideology” means, but I do know that Electric Literature stands with trans writers and readers, and will continue to fiercely advocate for their rights, protection, and the full expression of their humanity. "

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

A hardcover copy of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone. The black cover features a vertical strip with the title and a photo of Atlanta’s skyline.

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

🙏🙏 The editorial process with CRAFT was maybe the best I've ever experienced. They accepted my piece within 24 hours of submission, gave me a pub date and stuck to it, had the best edits, were always professional and kind. The finished piece looks great. Writers, put them at the top of your list!

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 12/03/2025

It’s only March. 290 days left for a history-defying reversal.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This is so embarrassing to say out loud but as a new(-ish) parent it’s honestly been striking to realize how much the practice of being a good parent is analogous to the practice of being a good government

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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy pub day to @elongreen.bsky.social, whose brilliant new book, THE MAN NOBODY KILLED, is out today. "Green’s grimly vivid telling of this story and its aftermath...is part elegy for Stewart himself, part portrait of the city that failed him...Swift, unsparing." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

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Book Review: ‘The Man Nobody Killed,’ by Elon Green

Elon Green’s telling of the life and death of the artist Michael Stewart is filled with heartbreaking echoes of the present.

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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

At today’s protest in Hartford @50501movement.bsky.social

A protest sign reads “No Kings! Only Prince” and features an image of Prince, as in Purple Rain.

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Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Outlive these fucking ghouls

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Narrative Magazine: 1) kept $20K+ in contest entry fees but didn't choose (or pay) winners 2) calls itself a religious org to avoid taxes 3) pays its founders $150K and $144K a year 4) charges $26 for subs They're a scam. Great reporting here from Becky Tuch litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-we-t...

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Q: Can we talk about Narrative Magazine?

"I know this magazine has taken a lot of heat over the years."

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Narrative Magazine has been a scam since it was founded in 2003

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

These beauties by Appalachian and Palestinian-American writer Mandy Shunnarah have been scheduled for months; the timeliness of their publication given recent news feels uncanny

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

God has not forsaken us yet.

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Erin Entrada Kelly @erinentrada.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

📝 If you’re interested in escaping into craft this year, I have LOTS of workshops coming up and I’d love to see you there! Sign up for my workshop mailing list for updates. Link in bio. XO

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20/11/2024

Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Every so often I think of the karaoke place in Austin where it shows the lyrics as “I guess it rains down in Africa”

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is the story of a marriage, told through an email being drafted in real time. It takes about five minutes to read/experience. Huge thanks to genius Matthew Baker and CODE Lit, a magazine dedicated to digital-dependent literature. codelit.com/between-the-...

Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"I’ve always loved insanity narratives. As a kid, I was like, “Well, that place honestly sounds kind of nice.” And all your friends are there!" I will take one thousand copies please.

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Kelly Luce @kellyluce.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Cannot stop thinking about how the fire burned everything else, including what was concealing the mural. “I don’t know how, but the fire took away the stucco, took away the sheet rock, & has left this mural undamaged,” Harris said. “Nothing else in this entire [area] is left except for that mural.”

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From the ashes of a Pasadena synagogue, a powerful discovery is made

The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center burned down in the Eaton fire. But on a remaining wall, Mmembers discovered a hidden treasure.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/01/2025

This is the good shit

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 13/01/2025

Now that congestion pricing has kicked in, I get where I’m going more quickly, and am disappointed by whatever I’m doing earlier and for a longer time.

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