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Mangrove
Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems both narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multilayered, Hollands explores what it was like to grow up gay in the late twentieth century, to deal with grief, and to create a family of one’s own.
Bone Valley Hymnal
Bone Valley Hymnal arrives from the molten core of Utah’s arid landscapes. Here, with the fossils mothers pass down to their daughters Franson-Thiel weaves hymns of heritage and gender performativity.
Make a Wish
If you could have one wish granted, would you ask for another? Make a Wish would. Childhood cancer, the aftermath of divorce, sexual violence, and a teenage girl’s disappearance haunt these poems, while desire and love and the sweetness of simple mornings triumph.
Twang
Set inside a crumbling rural landscape where preachers don’t do as they say and men die by violence, neglect and strange new viruses, the poems in Twang revisit and reconfigure narratives about Appalachia and the AIDS Crisis years of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Grieving Hope
Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie powerfully weave the seemingly incongruent into deeply moving and incredibly inspiring tapestries of meaning.
Magical Objects
Magical Objects is a weirdo collection of flash and short fiction drawing from fabulism and the magical power of metaphor. It's genre-bendy, queer, dark, whimsical, and ridiculous. It is a fairy tale of growing up with books and fairy tales. It is about words, identity, and broken, smart-assy girls learning how to draw strength from their scars.
NO OFFENSE: A Memoir In Essays
When Jackie "came out" in 2014, right as the Trump era was revving up, she began paying closer attention to the questions, uncomfortable reactions, and pointed assumptions about sexuality and gender she was witnessing and now experiencing.
Lightning Is a Mother
Within these lyrically rich poems, Appalachia is a kind of Eden, a paradise spoiled by humanity. Eve, the first mother, becomes a starting point for the speaker’s exploration of what it means to be a mother, an earth-dweller, a self.
Afternoon Shorts
Definition
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 continue to define her, or whether she will finally define herself—before the government uses them both for human experimentation.
The Trouble with Sweetheartz
If it were anyone else calling, Jamie would not have heard the phone ring. But it’s his ex-girlfriend, Micah, and she needs a ride home from Florida, almost ten hours away. On a rollicking midnight ride from Tennessee to Daytona Beach and back, Jamie turns over his relationship with Micah, his friends, and even God, as he tries to do the right thing and save her. One last time.
Hearty Little Beasts
A thoughtfully beautiful, eerie meditation on loneliness and addiction. Catherine evokes the starkness of Cormac McCarthy's prose with a little more soul, a little more yearning.
The Wendigo of Wall Street
Juliette is an Anthropology professor in New York City. Cole is a self-professed “Crypto Bro” who makes a killing on Wall Street. After their disastrous first date, Juliette never expects to hear from Cole again. But when Cole texts her late one night, she finds herself caught up in a sordid plot of money, mythology, and murder.
The Time Golem
In 2001, unknown artist and Holocaust survivor David Klein unveils The Time Golem, a massive sculpture inspired by the legendary protector of the Jews. At the opening, he performs a forbidden kabbalistic ritual—one not attempted in 400 years—to bring it to life.
The Fair Day
There’s something different about this county fair: a certain rush in the air each time you ride a ride, a certain sizzle in your blood. After a teenager nicknamed Electricity had her innocence stolen from her ten years ago at the county fair, she returns prepared to steal it back—not realizing all the forces at play, then and now, each chasing after innocence and power.
Em’s River
Vera, Em, and Stefan live intertwined, entangled in the damp sheets and the complexities of life under the oppressive gaze of their government. Employing lyrical prose, Em’s River explores the fall of the Weimar Republic and rise of fascism during Germany’s Third Reich through the lens of personal turmoil and privilege as it explores class, compulsive heterosexuality, and nationalism.
Calvin Klein
For twenty years, Sam has lived in fear, controlled by his father—while Cal, his brazen, chain-smoking best friend, hides in his closet. Now, with Cal facing a terminal illness, the two must race against time to break free from the expectations that have kept Sam paralyzed.
About ELJ Editions
Be Well. Write Well. Read Well.
ELJ Editions was founded in 2013 dedicated to emerging writers, however they may define that parameter, regardless of age, background, or how they identify. We want to amplify fresh voices to audiences excited to support their growth.
What’s emerging, you ask? Emerging doesn’t necessarily mean new to writing, but a jumping off point to publishing or sharing work with a broader audience; emerging is writers figuring out their voices, experimenting with style, exposing work that is raw and vulnerable. Whether you’re a new writer, a writer new to publishing, or a writer with experience experimenting with their style of work, we dedicate ourselves to you. Where do you and your work fall? You decide.
We at ELJ Editions believe that collectively, our differences make us stronger, enrich our lives, and bring innovation and creativity across the literary community.
We commit to cultivating a culture of inclusion and belonging where all authors know that their voices and perspectives will make a difference. We realize we have work to do to reach this goal. We welcome writers of every race, color, culture, religion, belief system, gender identity, gender expression, age, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, education, ability, health, neurotype, marital/parental status, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, and those identities and experiences not specified here. ELJ Editions is passionate about supporting diversity, equity and inclusion in wider society through publishing and amplifying diverse content. We are committed to building an inclusive small press. Diversity is one of the cornerstones of a vibrant, literary culture, and we are working hard to build a press that is more equitable and representative of the evolving community we serve and of which we are a part.