Kelly Luce
@kellyluce.bsky.social
author of THREE SCENARIOS IN WHICH HANA SASAKI GROWS A TAIL (A\SO) and PULL ME UNDER (FSG). Radcliffe fellow. Editor of Electric Lit's The Commuter
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
September 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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
any literary agents here near Cleveland or Columbus, OH?
June 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
any literary agents here near Cleveland or Columbus, OH?
Happy pub day, Lucas!!
One more day till THE SLIP hits shelves from @simonbooks.bsky.social. Sharing a few excerpts from Ron Charles’s extremely generous review in the Washington Post. Hope you’ll consider checking out THE SLIP 🥊🥊🥊
June 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy pub day, Lucas!!
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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. 🥊
June 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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. 🥊
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?
May 31, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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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🕴️
Kicking things off with Zendaya x "Beloved" by Toni Morrison🕴️
May 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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🕴️
Kicking things off with Zendaya x "Beloved" by Toni Morrison🕴️
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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
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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May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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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@dennemichele.bsky.social highlighted Mac's Backs and @kellyluce.bsky.social The Bottom
April 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@dennemichele.bsky.social highlighted Mac's Backs and @kellyluce.bsky.social The Bottom
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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.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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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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.
April 20, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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.
Wish weather apps alerted us about rainbows and not just rain
April 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Wish weather apps alerted us about rainbows and not just rain
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A story about being the only person in your family who hasn’t blossomed yet.
Waiting to Blossom In a Family of Golden Children - Electric Literature
“Late Bloomer,” flash fiction by Valentine Sargent
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April 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A story about being the only person in your family who hasn’t blossomed yet.
📢 It's free to submit, and we pay! 📢
The Commuter and Personal Narrative are opening for submissions on April 21! Send us your flash pieces, your poetry your graphic narratives, and your longform creative nonfiction. We can't wait to read your work!
Head to our Submittable for more details: buff.ly/1nd67zJ
Head to our Submittable for more details: buff.ly/1nd67zJ
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📢 It's free to submit, and we pay! 📢
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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!
April 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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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An irreverent — and illustrated! — riff on Mary Oliver’s iconic poem “Wild Geese.” (@miriamjayaratna.bsky.social, @amandalehr.bsky.social, Jenny Kroik)
Unfortunately, This Is What the Soft Animal of Your Body Loves - Electric Literature
A graphic narrative by Miriam Jayaratna, Amanda Lehr, and Jenny Kroik
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April 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
An irreverent — and illustrated! — riff on Mary Oliver’s iconic poem “Wild Geese.” (@miriamjayaratna.bsky.social, @amandalehr.bsky.social, Jenny Kroik)
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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.
Both/And
An new limited essay series centering the voices of trans and gender noncomforming writers of color
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March 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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Two poems about the tense relationship between a queer person and his less-than-accepting mother. (@mickiepoet.bsky.social)
Mom Can't Bribe Me Out of My Queerness - Electric Literature
Two poems by Mickie Kennedy
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March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Two poems about the tense relationship between a queer person and his less-than-accepting mother. (@mickiepoet.bsky.social)
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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.
March 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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.
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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.
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.
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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.
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.
Stand with us!
The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15.
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Why Electric Literature Isn't Applying to the NEA - Electric Literature
The NEA’s new compliance requirements are anti-trans, so we aren’t applying
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March 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Stand with us!
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This small, beautiful essay by @kellyluce.bsky.social: "Mary, remember when it snowed during dinner last week and you screamed? I would like to be more that way." SAME. www.craftliterary.com/2025/03/12/m...
Mary Ruefle Drives Me to the Dentist by Kelly Luce - CRAFT
Peterborough, New Hampshire We get lost and it’s my fault. I think I know a shortcut. Mary knows only the long way around. I have an appointment for a man to look into my mouth and tell me my…
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March 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This small, beautiful essay by @kellyluce.bsky.social: "Mary, remember when it snowed during dinner last week and you screamed? I would like to be more that way." SAME. www.craftliterary.com/2025/03/12/m...
🙏🙏 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!
Love this flash by @kellyluce.bsky.social in CRAFT. Love it!
That time @macdowell1907.bsky.social when my face ballooned up and poet Mary Ruefle gave me a lift...
March 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🙏🙏 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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My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭
March 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My child just asked if the x in SpaceX stands for explode. 😭
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Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
March 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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It’s only March. 290 days left for a history-defying reversal.
Becoming abundantly clear that @colsonwhitehead.com nailed in on January 2, 2025…
March 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It’s only March. 290 days left for a history-defying reversal.