Join Eckleburg, Gargoyle and Boudin at AWP 2026 for an evening of readings, food and drink at The Lord Baltimore on Friday, March 6, 2026 from 6 to 9. Readers TBA.
Eckleburg and Emerald Coast Storytellers present Jessica Lanay, Michael Martone, Richard Peabody and artist Rania Moudaress at Distillery 98 in Santa Rosa, Florida on August 21, 2025 for a literary evening celebrating "the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.... “Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg ...
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A big thank you to Sara Lippmann and Danielle Harms for making Eckleburg's 15th Anniversary celebration at AWP 2025 in Los Angeles a very special success. Also a big shout out to 7.13 Books, Rare Bird Books, Leland Cheuk and Tyson Cornell for their talented readers. Truly enjoyed. Last but ...
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DJ Mylia at Attack of the Book People III AWP 2025, LA Eckleburg 7.13 Books Rare Bird Books Hotel Per La Mezzanine West 649 S. Olive Street Los Angeles, CA 90014 Featuring Marilee Albert Rae Cline Rosa Kwon Easton Danielle Harms Chip Jacobs Sara Lippmann Sameer Pandya Jim Ruland Hugh ...
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Join 7.13 Books, Rare Bird Books and Eckleburg for Attack of the Book People III at AWP 2025 in LA on Friday, March 28th, 6 to 10 pm. Food, drinks, DJ and a fantastic lineup of readers including Marilee Albert, Rae Cline, Rosa Kwon Easton, Danielle Harms, Sara Lippman, Chip Jacobs, Sameer Pandya, Jim Ruland and Hugh Sheehy. Find copies of Eckleburg No. 22 at the ...
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Join 7.13 Books, Rare Bird Books and Eckleburg for Attack of the Book People III at AWP 2025 in LA on Friday, March 28th, 6 to 10 pm. Food, drinks, DJ and a fantastic lineup of readers including Marilee Albert, Rae Cline, Rosa Kwon Easton, Danielle Harms, Sara Lippman, Chip Jacobs, Sameer ...
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I want to call Luke Temple a disciple of Hank Williams and Roger Miller. I want to call him an avant-garde traditionalist. I want to say he’s got an unmatched intuition for the askew. I want to say his only real contemporary peer is another master songsmith named Cass McCombs ...
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I want to call Luke Temple a disciple of Hank Williams and Roger Miller. I want to call him an avant-garde traditionalist. I want to say he’s got an unmatched intuition for the askew. I want to say his only real contemporary peer is another master songsmith named Cass McCombs ...
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Quinn is an Athabaskan and Inupiaq songwriter who was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. Quinn addresses his childhood and his role as a transgender individual navigating Alaska's social landscape through his music ...
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Early one morning in May of 2016, Jesse Marchant came to on a street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, entangled with himself and his bicycle, after a crash on his way to work. He had been attacked by an irate school bus driver who knocked him speeding off his bicycle into a parked ...
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Being a good lit citizen means supporting lit pubs. Donate. Buy. I’m going to show some #AWP17 mags that you need to support…. @NoTokensJournal, @EckleburgReview, @open_letter. —Meakin Armstrong (Guernica) We are so sorry to announce that Eckleburg will not be attending AWP this year. We simply don't have the budget ...
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About Realizing River City by Melissa Grunow Tumbleweed Books Purchase "A deeply rich meditation on what it means to be a woman in a sometimes uncertain and complicated world, in relationship to men, but ultimately, and more importantly, to oneself. Melissa Grunow's REALIZING RIVER CITY raises just as many questions as ...
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About Puzzle Pieces by Bernard Grant Paper Nautilus Press Purchase PRAISE Like the identities he addresses in each of his essays, Bernard Grant’s Puzzle Pieces is full of shifts and movement. Whether he’s looking at gender, race, class, or ability, Grant uses language in an honest and fierce way to engage ...
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About Bomb by Ashley Inguanta Ampersand Books Purchase "You will feel chills throughout your entire body. Read this book." -- Francesca Lia Block "Ashley Inguanta's Bomb explodes across the page, rendering to rubble what we think we understand about love, loss, and the self. Calling out to the ghost of Amelia ...
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About An Instrument for Leaving by Monika Zobel Sippe Editions Purchase "Just as the Bertolt Brecht the book invokes, Monika Zobel's AN INSTRUMENT FOR LEAVING sings to us of the dark and abundant pain of living, the very sadness of being, the wonder of the colorful objects of life, and everything ...
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About The Bear Who Ate the Stars by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach Split Lip Press Purchase "There's a wonderful range to Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach's poems, rendered all the more remarkable by their consistent depth and polish. These poems feel meticulously crafted, despite a certain primal, sometimes sensual quality often falsely seen as ...
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About An Animal I Can't Name by Raegen Pietrucha Two of Cups Press Purchase Book “Raegen Pietrucha’s devastatingly moving chapbook, An Animal I Can’t Name, is a collection of well-crafted and language-rich poems. ... Pietrucha’s work is graphic and gorgeous without falling over the cliff of sentimentality.” —Lori Desrosiers, publisher ...
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About Apocalypse All the Time by David Atkinson Literary Wanderlust Purchase [Apocalypse All the Time] combines absurdism, science fiction, and sly commentary on our current neuroses induced by the twenty-four news cycle, to create something reminiscent of Orwell, Kafka, and Swift, while being entirely its own animal. - Joseph Hirsch, ...
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About The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle Black Lawrence Press Purchase Book “In these dark and edgy stories, Jacqueline Doyle has made a dispassionate study of the degradation of girls and the twisted hearts of those who harm them. Most chilling is the ease with which these characters fall prey to ...
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About The Hummingbirds by Ross McMeekin Skyhorse Purchase “With sly wit and piercing intelligence, Ross McMeekin’s novel traverses the classic terrain of California noir and manages, almost miraculously, to render it anew. Echoes of Cain, echoes of West, and yet even as the lush, light-struck world of swimming pools and starlets ...
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About Millard Salter's Last Day by Jacob M. Appel Simon and Schuster Purchase In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation that comes with old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter decides to kill himself by the end of the day—but first he has to tie up some loose ends. These ...
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About Post-High School Reality Quest by Meg Eden California Coldblood / Rare Bird Books Purchase "Entertaining yet thoughtful look at figuring out who you are. The format and concept behind this book is refreshingly unique. It’s told as a command-based video game, but the story is a contemporary coming of age ...
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2/9/17 9:00:00 AM Jacob Appel 2/9/17 10:00:00 AM Bradley Babendir 2/9/17 10:00:00 AM David Atkinson 2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Laurie Foos 2/9/17 11:00:00 AM Philip Dean Walker 2/9/17 1:00:00 PM Sandi Sonnenfeld 2/9/17 2:00:00 PM Sheila McMullin 2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Melissa Grunow 2/9/17 3:00:00 PM Shanee Stepakoff 2/9/17 4:00:00 PM Julia ...
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Frederick News Post: Open mic nights often take place in coffee shops or book stores amid patrons chatting over coffee or browsing through books. But what would it be like to read flash fiction or play a song in an intimate setting designated exclusively to literature readings and music performances? ...
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Join Eckleburg & Cherry Tree for words and drinks at Busboys & Poets on February 9th, 2017 from 9-11 pm for an AWP 2017 celebration. What others are saying about Eckleburg… The most exciting and adventurous and gutsiest new magazine I’ve seen in years.” Stephen Dixon Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire ...
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I'm having a party to celebrate the launch of my novella, How to Travel With Your Demons (an Eckleburg Book Club selection!), published by Spuyten Duyvil Press-- and I've invited some of my favorite writers to join me: Laurie Stone, Stephanie E. Dickinson, Deborah Oster Pannell and Christen Clifford. Books, ...
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Get the full and FREE AWP Survival Guide| How to Have Fun without Making a Complete Idiot of Yourself √ Water Hydration is very important, especially if you are attending off-site events where drinking and merriment is plentiful. Make sure to take care of yourself and replenish throughout the evening. Your ...
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JULY 26TH, 11AM THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY FESTIVAL GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, NYC The Rue De Fleurus Salon & Reading Series will present readings by: Sarah Bridgins is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in Sink Review, InDigest, Monkeybicycle, Two Serious Ladies, Thrush, and Bone Bouquet among other ...
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On Tuesday night, fans, staff, and writers for The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review gathered at the KGB Bar in New York City for a night of literature and camaraderie. Posters of socialist propaganda, some written in Cyrillic, hung on the walls of the one-room bar where we mingled on the ...
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ALSO FIND US AT... AWP Book Expo Exchange (NY) Conversations & Connections (DC) Mission Creek Festival (Iowa) Litquake (LA) The Poetry Festival (NY) Derangement of the Senses (NY) Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival (NY) The Johns Hopkins University (NY, Balt) ...
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Almost exactly one year ago, I was on my way to an interview with the Minneapolis Arts Council for a position on the board. It was a nonpaying position, but the possibility of being able to influence the direction and support of the arts community in my city, no matter ...
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Rue de Fleurus began in 2013 by Eckleburg so we could hang out with the authors, artists and musicians we love. Come join us. You might fall in love, too. The Rue de Fleurus Salon began in 2012, New York City, at Brazenhead Bookstore, owned by the always hospitable, Michael Seidenberg ...
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About The Eckleburg Reading Series
The Eckleburg Reading Series is a performance outreach by Eckleburg. The series and the journal began in 2010 and features authors, poets, artists and musicians such as Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Amber Tamblyn, Roxane Gay, Steve Almond, Ben Loory, Richard Peabody, Limestone Connection, Sun Parade and more.
The Eckleburg Reading Series also offers an open mic in support of local and new talent. Our mission is to build an arts and networking community that celebrates diversity of voices. The series has been held in New York, DC, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Portland, Iowa, Chicago, Cambridge, Frederick and more.
About Eckleburg
Refreshing… edgy… classic… compelling.” Flavorwire
Being a good lit citizen means supporting lit pubs. Donate. Buy. I’m going to show some
#AWP17 mags that you need to support… , , .”
Meakin Armstrong (Guernica)
The most exciting and adventurous and gutsiest new magazine I’ve seen in years.”
Stephen Dixon
Eye-grabbing… fun… bold… inviting… exemplary.” Sabotage
Literary Burroughs D.C…. the journal cleverly takes its name from the The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald….” Ploughshares
Proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.
Currently, Eckleburg runs online, daily content of original fiction, poetry, nonfiction, translations, and more with featured artwork–visual and intermedia–from our Gallery. We run annual print issues, the Eckleburg Reading Series (DC, Baltimore and New York), as well as, the annual Gertrude Stein Award in Fiction, first prize $1000 and print publication, guest-judged by award-winning authors such as Rick Moody and Cris Mazza.
We have collaborated with a number of talented and high profile literary, art and intermedia organizations in DC, Baltimore and New York including The Poetry Society of New York, KGB Bar, Brazenhead Books, New World Writing (formerly Mississippi Review Online), The Hopkins Review, Boulevard, Gargoyle Magazine, Entasis Press, Barrelhouse, Hobart, 826DC, DC Lit and Iowa’s Mission Creek Festival at AWP 2013, Boston, for a night of raw comedic lit and music. We like to promote smaller indie presses, galleries, musicians and filmmakers alongside globally recognized organizations, as well as, our local, national and international contributors.
Rarely will readers/viewers find a themed issue at Eckleburg, but rather a mix of eclectic works. It is Eckleburg’s intention to represent writers, artists, musicians, and comedians as a contemporary and noninvasive collective, each work evidence of its own artistry, not as a reflection of an editor’s vision of what an issue “should” be. Outside of kismet and special issues, Eckleburg will read and accept unsolicited submissions based upon individual merit, not theme cohesiveness. It is our intention to create an experience in which readers and viewers can think artistically, intellectually, socially, and independently. We welcome brave, honest voices. To submit, please read our guidelines.
Over the ashheaps the giant eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg kept their vigil, but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away. —The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Eckleburg Reading Series is a performance outreach by Eckleburg. The series and the journal began in 2010 and features authors, poets, artists and musicians such as Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Amber Tamblyn, Roxane Gay, Steve Almond, Ben Loory, Richard Peabody, Limestone Connection, Sun Parade and more.
