ELJ Editions

11/25/2025

Pleased to welcome our 1st release of 2026, Primal House by Emily Koss! Due out in late-January, you can reserve your copy today! https://elj-editions.com/primal-house/ via

When our narrator’s house is reclaimed by the wilderness, she embarks with her Pooch on a rambling and rollicking journey. She meets undead deer and living skeletons, travels through dream worlds and deserts of longing, and untangles truths from the messy web of life.

11/24/2025

Reminder: are now open for this exciting new project! Picture your work in a tear-away desk calendar. Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. US subs only. $5 acceptance International. $3reading fee. More here: https://eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/341169/your-daily-micro-2027

11/24/2025

Releasing May 2027. opening 1st Quarter 2026. Stay tuned! Edited by dianegotauthor

11/21/2025

Also, today, EBSCO reached out to open an account to get ELJ’s titles into libraries, & our titles are available via Ingram beginning w/our March 2025 titles. Thanks to everyone that stood by us as we moved forward to bigger & better things. The future is now, & we will be announcing our first 2026 title next week.

11/21/2025

Great news! All ELJ Editions books published after March 2025 are now available on Amazon, BN.com, and Bookshop.org, as well as ELJ’s website! Pick yourself up a book this Holiday season!

11/17/2025

We don’t think it’s possible to go through life without experiencing trauma. Some experiences of trauma begin with a small “t,” while others are undeniably of the uppercase variety. Either way, trauma has a way of settling in our bones, impacting how we see and move in the world, often in ways that may not best serve us or those we love.

And yet, we at ELJ Editions strongly believe in the power of resilience and the possibility of post-traumatic growth. We’d love to hear—and publish—the stories of your challenges and pathways forward in a new anthology titled Digging Up Bones: Reflections on Trauma and Recovery.

If you’d like to come dig with us and share your reflections on recovery from trauma, here are the guidelines:

Creative non-fiction only.
Essays must be no longer than 1500 words.
Essays must be previously unpublished.
Contributors who reside in the US will receive one copy of the anthology and a $30 honorarium. Contributors outside the US will receive a PDF and a $30 honorarium.

Submissions open 1/1/26.
Edited by Diane GottliebDiane Gottlieb

11/06/2025

are now open! Response time will vary. Please submit up to 2 micros/250 word max/2 per sub. Payment 1 calendar. $3 reading fee. More here: https://eljpublications.submittable.com/submit/341169/your-daily-micro-2027

11/05/2025

A Desktop Calendar Experience. opening soon.

11/04/2025

Our Afternoon Shorts series is returning with revamped word counts (10k-25k). ebook & print publication. Varying response time up to 60 days. today.

"A story is a complete dramatic action..." ~ Flannery O'Connor ELJ Editions appreciates the difficult writers have in placing longer stories. We want quality fiction that grabs us and doesn't let go. Stories we wish we had written. We're looking for characters, plot, stories, etc. Keep us engaged by...

09/18/2025

Submissions open 2/1/26.

09/17/2025

Press editor Diane Gottlieb interviews author Bill Hollands about his poetry collection, Mangrove. Mangrove recently received an outstanding review over at The Adroit Journal. Check out the interview!:

I use the writing to help me figure it out, to come to some understanding, and perhaps some resolution.

09/17/2025

The Be Well Series is returning in January 2026 as Be Well: a Series on Craft, Writing, and the Art of Healing, hosted by Diane Gottlieb. Save the date: 1/11/26