We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Electric Book Award Longlist! From more than 400 manuscripts of all types, lengths, styles, and genres submitted to Alternating Current Press for the book prize, we’ve narrowed the first round of reading down to this longlist of semifinalists. Congrats to all of these authors, whose manuscripts have now gone on to the next round of readers to create a shortlist. From the shortlist, we’ll then select a winner to receive $1,000 and publication, and possibly several finalists who may also be offered publication to join our 2026 through 2027 publishing seasons. Congrats to these longlisters, and we’ll see you in the next round!

Novels & Novellas

• Ripped-Out Pages by K. L. Anderson
• The Dieter by Mark Connelly
• Weird Gods by Laura Eppinger
• Hidden Truth by John Erickson
• Meanwhile by Amalia Gladhart
• Recline and Fall by John Goodwin
• Delightmares by Martin S. Hemlock
• The Resplendent Quetzal by Lynn Horton
• Little Black Holes by Heather Harms Konstan
• I Dreamt We Spoke by Kelly Konya
• Sister Kenny and the Great Crippler by Patricia Kullberg
• It’s Going to Be Okay. It Will. by Michael Mackenzie
• Zarzamora by Simone Martel
• Dad’s Job Pisses People Off by Bill McCulloch
• The Synthetic Woman by Forrest E. Morgan
• Birds of Passage by Miriam Polli
• Elegy by Josh Rank
• The Pilgrims by Karl Roloff
• Trail of the Rogue by Andrew Valencia
• Spikers by Mark Wagstaff
• Unstitched: A Haunting by Allison Wyss

Short-Story Collections

• Lion Hunting by Michele Koh Morollo
• How We Deal with the Dead by Sam Ruddick

Nonfiction, Essays, Memoir

• An Eloquent Cortex: A Memoir of Epilepsy by Susan Hall
• Service Husband: A Caregiver’s Journey Through Disability, Suicide, and Recovery by Wayne Lee
• Wood and Nails by Wally Swist

Poetry

• Sentinel by Jay Brecker
• Orphan’s Antonym by Jennifer Brown
• Onesie by Charles Byrne
• Old Greer County by Ryan Clark
• Mock by Katie Cloutte
• A Hymn for Lily by Cody Chance Glenn
• The Life Cycle of Cruelty by Kai-Lilly Karpman
• Telling by Mary Paulson
• Just Earth by Larry Sherman Rogers
• Cleavage by Wendy Mannis Scher
• Every Single Beast of My Heart by Pamela Wax
• Seed to Bone by Marian Willmott

Hybrid

• He Who Dies with the Most Toys Wins! by Jason Anderson
• Love Is Where You Find It by F. David Bolton
• The Sunlight in Our Bones by Jayson Iwen
• What Comes Next; or, Meet the Dunnes by Laurence Klavan

Thanks to these authors for sharing their incredible work with us and for trusting us to share it with the rest of the world. Congratulations on the longlist selections, and we wish you the best of luck in the next round.

For the visually impaired or those using TTS reading aids: this is the end of the announcement.

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