We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Electric Book Award Longlist! From more than 300 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 will now go 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 2028 publishing seasons. Congrats to these longlisters, and we’ll see you in the next round!

Novels & Novellas

• Deplorable Young Ladies by Michael Apostolina
• Offenbach’s Menagerie by Eliza Factor
• Memory Stick by Mike Heppner
• Red Snapper by Fernanda Hong
• Genre Women by M. C. Schmidt

Short-Story Collections

• I Would for You by R. Renee Branca
• Where Do You Think You’re Going? Who Do You Think You Are? by Janis Bultman
• The Kind of Girl by Kim Henderson
• I Have Loved the Rain by Sophie Hoss
• Flood Covenant by Mackenzie Sanders
• Purebred Hustle by Evan Morgan Williams

Nonfiction, Essays, Memoir

• Art Becoming Becoming Art: A Recto/Verso Examination by Liz Asch
• Love in the Bardo by Jane Gerhard
• Survival Jobs: A Memoir of 63 Jobs in 13 Years by Laura O’Toole Morton
• Fool’s Gear: A Completely Devastating Thing I’ll Probably Do Again by Dylan Nigh
• Home Front by Adrienne Pine
• Malibu, 1978 by Zemeira Singer
• Just Writing This Is Killing Me: Tales of Love & Lung Disease by Laura Esther Wolfson

Poetry

• Couched by Suzette Bishop
• Deep, Blue Odds by Lane Falcon
• Spread by Jack Giaour
• Hex & Flesh: 35 Incantations of Queer Becoming by Wednesdae Reim Ifrach
• Shelter In Place by Laurie Kuntz
• On a Page Break by Bénédicte Kusendila
• Bowing Acacias by Leila Macbeth
• Advice from a Fathead Minnow by Kathryn Petruccelli
• God of Sea. God of Salt. by Kathryn Petruccelli
• In the Café of Mistaken Orders by David J. S. Pickering
• Moon Moth by Britain Powers
• Sharky by Andrew Rahal
• The Book of Knots by Pervin Saket
• Trans.mute by Beck Stevens
• OK, Desire by Elisabeth von Uhl
• Portrait Miniatures by James K. Zimmerman

Hybrid

• Forms & Fabulae by Matthew James Babcock
• Columbia in Its Second Day by B. de la Cuesta
• Star-Crossed by Stephanie Garrison & Andrea Watson (Play Script)
• Inhale: A Novel of Stories by Rajiv Kumra
• Cheap Copies by Nergal Malham
• Awake Through the Night: A Life in Stories by Robert McKean
• There Are Rivers in Our Veins by Jacqueline St. Joan

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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