Electric Literature's 2023 Spring Salon Series is presented by Mount Saint Mary's University.

All events are pay-what-you-want, and proceeds support Electric Literature, a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.

Electric Lit has long been known as a publisher of essays that blend personal narrative with analysis and critique. Books, television, film—even music and visual art—often find themselves discussed in our digital pages. But in a creative climate rife with the closure of prominent literary magazines, Electric Literature wants to do more.

Essayists have been recently impacted by the shuttering of publishers like Catapult, Astra Magazine, Bookforum, and Bitch Media. Electric Literature wants to fill that void. This summer we will open submissions for general nonfiction. Though we will continue to publish work that engages with culture and media, EL will now be a home for the most urgent, honest, and artful nonfiction we can get our hands on.

Tune in to this free salon to hear EL’s essay editors, editor-in-chief Denne Michele Norris, associate editor Wynter Miller, and contributing editor Michelle Chikaonda in conversation to learn more about our new submission guidelines, and the kinds of essays that will take our breath away.

Calling All Essayists: Announcing EL's New Creative Nonfiction Program