Electric Literature

Electric Literature is a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.It is 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. It is particularly interested in writing that operates at the intersection of different cultures, genres, and media.

Electric Literature began as a quarterly journal in 2009 and became a non-profit in 2014. In addition to the essays, criticism, and literary news on this site, you’ll find our acclaimed weekly literary magazines: Recommended Reading, which publishes short story and novel excerpts with personal recommendations, and The Commuter, its home for flash fiction, poetry, and graphic narrative. Recommended Reading launched in 2012 and will publish its 400th issue on New Year's Day, 2020. Work published by Electric Literature and our literary magazines has been recognized by Best American Short Stories, Essays, and Comics, the Pushcart Prize, Best Canadian Short Stories, and The Best of the Small Presses.

Everything published by Electric Literature is available to readers for free, and as a non-profit, it relies on contributions from those readers to survive. To support its work and our mission, readers are encouraged to consider becoming a member or making a one-time contribution. All gifts are tax-deductible. Electric Literature monetizes some book links on our site. If readers click on a link and make a purchase, the publisher may receive a commission, which goes towards paying writers. These commissions do not influence what books it features or how it chooses to cover them.

Electric Literature is grateful for the support of the Amazon Literary Partnership, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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=References= The Electric Literature website:.