Jalen Giovanni Jones

This insane crossover of my worlds — Claire from UCI and Josh from LSU 🛸

The creator of this meme also writes short stories and shows no signs of stopping soon

Electric Lit as iconic summer albums past and present 💡 ⚡ 🌞 What album covers should we do next? 👀

There's kinda no better feeling tbh 🐬💖🌈

7 Books About Black People Who Pass as White - Electric Literature Kuchenga Shenjé, author of "The Library Thief," recommends stories that delve into race and identity in the U.S. and U.K.

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7 Debut Collections About Knowing a Place Across Generations - Electric Literature These authors capture the power and privilege of staying

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These books know how to treat place as a character known and loved across time. (@riggstah.bsky.net)

7 Books from Around the World to Read for Women in Translation Month - Electric Literature Don’t miss these translations by women authors writing in Arabic, Kannada, Latvian, and more

“A time to recognize the literary translators whose intense, sustained work has led to the publication of these and other brilliant works of literature, which otherwise would remain unknown to a wider, international audience.” (@ilzeduarte.bsky.social)

A Mixed Race Take On What It Means To Be 'Free' Danzy Senna's stories begin with the familiar, but quickly take subtle turns to reveal racial tensions lurking below the surface. As part of Tell Me More's Summer Blend Book Club series, host Michel M...

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7 African Novelists in Conversation With Their Literary Ancestors - Electric Literature These authors pay homage to the African-Atlantic writers who came before them

Books that embrace a literary archive of shared colonial histories, currents of Black Atlantic world-making, and diasporic relations to the continent of Africa.

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If My Mom Was So Angry Around Me, I Must Have Been the Reason - Electric Literature “Queen Bee” by Flavia R. Montiero

“I can only take so many apologies, she often said. Once I give up on a person, there’s no turning back.” (@flaviamonteiro.bsky.social)

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Join us for the launch of the greatly anticipated "Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color," featuring editor Denne Michele Norris and contributors Denny Burhan, Edgar Gomez, and Meredith Talusan! ⚡💡

Now on shelves wherever you buy books, Both/And is edited by Electric Lit’s own Denne Michele Norris, and features 17 eclectic essays by trans and gender non-conforming writers of color from all walks of life, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.

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The anthology you’ve all been waiting for is almost here! Read Denne Michele Norris's (@thedennemichele.bsky.social) introduction to “Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color” — available for preorder now, and hitting shelves August 12th!

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We write to share the tragic news that Electric Literature's former Deputy Editor, Jo Lou, passed away on July 8, 2025. What she meant to our community cannot be measured. To memorialize Jo, we have gathered tributes from EL staff and contributors. Please join us in remembering her buff.ly/ZmOEUDR

We're thrilled to announce our 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop NONFICTION scholars! We're proud to know them, and to be able to celebrate them. We can't wait to read whatever they write next!!! Please give these wonderful folks their flowers! #thsw ⁠🥳🥳🥳

A sweet story in two parts :) 💡 🐕 🐾

3 Debut Writers Discuss Frame Narratives and Namelessness in Their First Novels - Electric Literature Cora Lewis, Issa Quincy, and Katie Yee discuss the layers and choices behind their first novels

"Every work of art is the wreck of a perfect idea... I have found when I plot things out too clearly, when I know too much, I lose interest or a desire to continue working. Perhaps this is because the idea is already too perfect and I can see more clearly how I am wrecking it."

Join us in supporting Bookshop's anti-prime sale, by visiting our bookshop page and checking out our staff picks! Every purchase made will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires. And through to tomorrow, Bookshop will be offering FREE shipping! Act fast: buff.ly/rX8cnha

Check out some of my fav books! Let me know if you pick up any today :) bookshop.org/lists/jalen-...

I've Been Diagnosed With Blackness - Electric Literature Two poems from 2000 BLACKS by Ajibola Tolase, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Prize

“I wanted you to will the earth to swallow the cop at my door.”

The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature Rob Macaisa Colgate’s formally inventive collection creates a world of care and intimacy

"I was sort of bored of disability poetics... and became fascinated [by] how visual art could both be about disability, yes, but could also be made accessible in experience. I felt like I needed something like that for disability poetics, that I hadn't encountered yet."

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We won't back down in the face of artistic suppression, but we need your help. EL needs to raise $25,000 by the end of this month to protect our literary future and continue publishing voices this administration wants to silence. Donate now: buff.ly/rZ09QQ1

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The Wordle Bot Thinks I'm Hot - Electric Literature “My Phone Is the Supermoon,” flash fiction by Nathan Alling Long

A story about longing for connection, and finding it with the Wordle bot.

"Reading through Rob’s debut collection, there’s this perpetual feeling that all is accounted and cared for."

@jalengjones.bsky.social talks to Hardly Creatures' author Rob Macaisa Colgate for @electricliterature.com!

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The Poems in “Hardly Creatures” Take You Through an Accessible Art Museum - Electric Literature Rob Macaisa Colgate’s formally inventive collection creates a world of care and intimacy

Jalen Giovanni Jones (@jalengjones.bsky.social‬) speaks with Rob Macaisa Colgate about his debut poetry collection “Hardly Creatures,” meeting the needs of your readers, and why he’s bored of the current state of disability poetics.

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