Literature. Literati. Libation. In Scranton, Pennsylvania, Jack’s Draft House serves its patrons a bi-monthly reading series called Prose in Pubs. The recipe for this stellar event is quite simple: “No microphones. No stage. No fancy cheese.” The organizers declare this on their Facebook page. “Just prose…oh, and beer.” I’m heartbreakingly in. Unlike those ‘normal’ readings …
Last month, Eckleburg Gallery featured Mark Posey’s paintings. We interviewed Posey to understand more about his creative process, what role art plays in his life, and how these utterly intriguing paintings help him to communicate with the world. What inspires you to paint? One of the reasons why I enjoy painting so much is because …
Queen B’s real name is Bianca. But she likes to be called Queen B, and so that is what I call her. Queen B has a wife who is a lesbian stud and who likes to be referred to as “he.” Queen B calls him her wife. I do not know his name. What I …
That’s me there. The girl in the brown and white saddle shoes. Clunky. Out of place even at her own desk. Worried that she doesn’t belong. Eager to please. Working her little fingers to nubbins trying to copy the cursive handwriting she is taught to do. Always wondering, watching for the weather of the classroom …
On the starting line I have an excellent view of Sean McNulty’s armpit — sandy tufts of hair wedged between upper arm and torso. The top of an intensely freckled shoulder. Around us, runners pat each other on the back and exchange jokes. The sun over my hometown of West Windsor, New Jersey is dry …
This is where I am: Excited by: David Foster Wallace, Jefferey Eugenides, Gene Wilder, Sloane Crosley, Harold Brodkey, Susan Orlean, Tim and Eric, smart television writing and the art of sitcom, Bea Arthur, all things Cleese (Python, Fawlty Towers), Joan Didion, mentor Blanche Boyd and the host of brilliant professors and teachers I …
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I shy away from mentors anymore. Once I had one—he stood tall and shaggy-haired handsome and thought that I, like him, should be a writer. I was a voracious reader of anything that could keep me from making eye contact with strangers on public transportation or in the study area of the Cathedral of Learning. …
Small town. Texas. Cows. And a random Liberal Arts University in the middle of all those endless pastures. Southwestern University. Georgetown, Texas. You have never heard of it. Barely 1000 students and, to my delight, 750 of them are female. Move-in day. My mom and dad load up the huge trunk of my dad’s black …
I have a gay ankle. That is not a typo. It is not supposed to read as “I have a gay uncle.” I don’t even have an uncle. So, no, there is no gay uncle. But my ankle is very, very gay. How this happened: I’m seventeen and know, like really know, that I am …
The lesbians surround me. Swarms of them come in every day through the heavy glass door and want to pick at my brain. “Are there any transgender books for children? “I want to introduce my sister to feminism, but she doesn’t like to read. Is there a novel or something that would be good to …
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Essay and Other Nonfiction Workshops at Eckleburg
Personal Essay
Lyric Essay
Body Narrative
Modern Memoir
Submit Your Nonfiction
We accept polished creative nonfiction/essays up to 8,000 words year round, unless announced otherwise. Preferences veer toward shorter works under 1500 words with an arts and culture focus. If you wish to include a bio, keep it short, under 200 words. Submit your nonfiction.
Essay Collections and Memoir Manuscripts
We publish short works at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. At this time, we do not publish novel, long memoir, essay collections, story collections or poetry collections at The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. We do offer manuscript workshops at The Eckleburg Workshops. If you are looking to place a manuscript, we can suggest several excellent small and large presses whose excellent books are promoted through our Eckleburg Book Club — i.e., Random House, Graywolf Press, Coffeehouse, Tinhouse, St. Martins Press and more.