Isle McElroy
@islemcelroy.bsky.social
Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide. 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.
Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
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The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.
The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, nonfiction that will change how you think about the color blue, a sexy memoir, and a vampire story that just may be horror’s ‘Moby-Dick.’
The Best Books of 2025 (So Far)
The best new books of 2025 (so far) include novels from award-winning authors, nonfiction that will change how you think about the color blue, a sexy memoir, and a vampire story that just may be horror’s ‘Moby-Dick.’
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November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The latest round of @nymag.com's Best Books of 2025 includes SAD TIGER! Thanks to @islemcelroy.bsky.social for their thoughtful writeup.
The Channel is a Publisher’s Weekly Book Deal of the Week!
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Channel is a Publisher’s Weekly Book Deal of the Week!
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Very excited to share that @islemcelroy.bsky.social has just sold their next novel and I can NOT wait!!!
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very excited to share that @islemcelroy.bsky.social has just sold their next novel and I can NOT wait!!!
Very excited to be publishing my 3rd novel, THE CHANNEL, with Lindsey Schwoeri at Viking!! Coming to you summer 2027.
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Very excited to be publishing my 3rd novel, THE CHANNEL, with Lindsey Schwoeri at Viking!! Coming to you summer 2027.
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My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps)
Last Sunday I spent hours at the Brooklyn Book Festival, a too rare occasion for me to pull myself away from the internet for an entire afternoon. As I looked around at the crowd on their way to pa…
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September 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...
Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!
September 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Loved writing the afterword for the reissue of Jacqueline Harpman’s ORLANDA, a brilliant leap of a body swap novel. A sexy, smart, and beguiling companion to her hit I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN. Pick up a copy on September 30!
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In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Published
Eleven writers weigh in. Plus, my book's sales: exposed!
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August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In which I share my books' sales and kind words of wisdom from @dannymlavery.bsky.social, @rumaan.bsky.social @mysoncool.bsky.social, @mattielubchansky.com, @jayasaxena.com, @islemcelroy.bsky.social, and @lydiakiesling.bsky.social meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/the-mortif...
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With this Isle McElroy announced themselves as a compelling writer who can write a stunning gender swap/mystery novel from multiple points of view. I think it’s a tour de force
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
With this Isle McElroy announced themselves as a compelling writer who can write a stunning gender swap/mystery novel from multiple points of view. I think it’s a tour de force
Some thoughts on Weapons and a lecture about empathy in fiction I delivered at Tin House
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Weapons Rips. Empathy Slips.
Zach Cregger's new film and my Tin House Summer Workshop lecture on the limits of empathy.
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August 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Some thoughts on Weapons and a lecture about empathy in fiction I delivered at Tin House
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I wrote about Sorry, Baby and some thoughts on teachers sleeping with students open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...
Loser Shit
On Sorry, Baby and The Loser Component
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August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I wrote about Sorry, Baby and some thoughts on teachers sleeping with students open.substack.com/pub/thescoop...
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Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. They wrote the Best Sex I've Ever Read Column for Vulture and taught a class on Desire and Sex Writing at the Sarah Lawrence MFA program.
June 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. They wrote the Best Sex I've Ever Read Column for Vulture and taught a class on Desire and Sex Writing at the Sarah Lawrence MFA program.
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Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. Their criticism and essays regularly appear in Vulture, The Atlantic, Esquire, and elsewhere. They are a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute and currently teach in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
June 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Isle McElroy is the author of the novels People Collide and The Atmospherians. Their criticism and essays regularly appear in Vulture, The Atlantic, Esquire, and elsewhere. They are a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute and currently teach in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
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At 34, writer Leah Rae Hulgin learned that being single and being widowed are not quite the same thing. She and her husband Evan met in their early 20s. After eight years of marriage, Evan was diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer at 30 years old. Seven months after his diagnosis, Evan died.
July 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
At 34, writer Leah Rae Hulgin learned that being single and being widowed are not quite the same thing. She and her husband Evan met in their early 20s. After eight years of marriage, Evan was diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer at 30 years old. Seven months after his diagnosis, Evan died.
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An e-mail from someone asking about my work sent me on a little trip down memory lane and I remembered this piece for Hazlitt that I still like for a short story by Isle McElroy
May 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
An e-mail from someone asking about my work sent me on a little trip down memory lane and I remembered this piece for Hazlitt that I still like for a short story by Isle McElroy
For @vulture.com, I anticipated some summer books www.vulture.com/article/new-...
28 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer
Whether you want to make sense of reality or escape it — through climate fiction, searing memoirs, and tight thrillers.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
For @vulture.com, I anticipated some summer books www.vulture.com/article/new-...
Excited to be named a 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. I’ll be living in Vegas for 9 months, working on my 3rd novel, I’m So Happy You’re Here. www.unlv.edu/news/release...
Black Mountain Institute Announces 2025–26 Fellows
UNLV’s literary institute launches two new fellowship programs.
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May 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Excited to be named a 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. I’ll be living in Vegas for 9 months, working on my 3rd novel, I’m So Happy You’re Here. www.unlv.edu/news/release...