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    Alt Lit

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    The alt-lit names to look out for in 2016

    These are the writers and publishers that should have been on your holiday reading wish list

    Arts+Culture

    Dec 28, 2015

    Lucy K Shaw
    Arts+CultureMykki Blanco

    The LGBT writers to watch

    As the Polari Prize jury get ready to pick their literary debut of 2015, we pick out some of the most exciting new voices of the LGBT experience

    Arts+Culture

    Aug 03, 2015

    Dominique Sisley
    Arts+CultureMeggie Green Shabby Doll House

    The e-zine shaping alt lit’s future

    After the community was rocked by scandal, Shabby Doll House’s new e-zine is helping alt lit rise from the proverbial ashes

    Arts+Culture

    Mar 11, 2015

    Josephine Livingstone
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    Ten essential thoughts on rape in Alt Lit

    Allegations of abuse, sexual assault and misogyny have rocked the often ultra-emo literary online community. Where now for the scene?

    Arts+Culture

    Oct 09, 2014

    Lauren Oyler
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    Tao Lin accused of statutory rape and emotional abuse

    The alt lit novelist strongly denies the claims, saying he was in a ‘relationship that had problems’

    Arts+Culture

    Oct 02, 2014

    Zing Tsjeng
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    So you want to be a writer? Our guest editors tell you how

    From Kenneth Goldsmith to Gabby Bess, here’s the top ten things we learnt from this week’s State of Literature takeovers

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 25, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
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    Ana Carrete asks Why Fi?

    The alt lit poet and New Wave Vomit editor shares her new zine, feat. Dracula, bald Britney and plenty of skateboarding mermaids

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 25, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
    Arts+CultureOasa DuVerney Still from Post-Racial Watermelon Ea

    Jenny Zhang's sisterhood is stranger than yours

    Read an excerpt from the writer's new book that captures the awkwardness of adolescence and adulthood alike

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 25, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
    Arts+CultureFrozen park at midnight

    Meet Darby Larson's Tunk & Flut

    Read the enigmatic "story" from the daring writer turning novel form on its head – and who is ready to make yours ache

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 24, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
    Arts+CulturePic for Eugene Lim_Ursula Curse

    Eugene Lim is stranger than (science) fiction

    Read the writer's moving story about the end of the art world and, by the sounds of it, the human race

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 24, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
    Arts+CultureThe Atlas Review

    Meet the next generation of American lit mags

    From poetry to erotica, we chart the top ten mags set to keep you in the know

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 24, 2014

    Lauren Oyler
    Arts+CultureSad Girl House

    Ten US presses that don’t play by the rules

    Ten offbeat alt lit publishers from the US you need to know

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 23, 2014

    Lauren Oyler
    Arts+CultureScott McClanahan

    Scott McClanahan: Spitting in the face of Shakespeare

    Talking dirty about the ghetto of 'Crapalachia' with West Virginia's alt lit homeslice

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 22, 2014

    Lauren Oyler
    Arts+CultureDavid Daniels 4

    David Daniels' MS Word Poems

    Kenneth Goldsmith selects the outsider visual artist and his early Windows poetry

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 22, 2014

    Claire Marie Healy
    Arts+CultureMegan Boyle

    How to diet with Mira Gonzalez

    Counting those calories? Here's a poem from the alt-lit princess that might help

    Arts+Culture

    Jul 22, 2014

    Mira Gonzalez

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