Electric Literature just opened a very brief submission window for personal essays. The topic: Novel gazing.

According to their submission guidelines:

For the new Novel Gazing, Electric Lit’s personal essay series about the way stories shape our lives, we’re asking: What’s a book that almost killed you? This could mean the book whose ideas landed you in physical danger, or the book that fell on your head and gave you a concussion (assuming that you can tell the latter story in a fully-realized way). If you had a run-in with the Necronomicon, if you risked your life mimicking the exploits of your favorite heroine, if you misunderstood a mycology manual, if you once vowed to eat every page of Moby-Dick and almost choked, now’s the time to tell your story. It’s okay if the “book” in question isn’t strictly a book—movies, TV, and other narrative media will do.

They pay $60 per accept piece. The length should be between 800 and 4,000 words.

The deadline is September 21st, 2018.

To learn more, read their submission guidelines.