Eli Hastings
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Clearly Now, The Rain
A suspenseful, darkly funny, devastating journey, this nuanced memoir brings to life the troubled, decade-long relationship between Eli Hastings and his friend Serala.
"In electric, adventurous prose, Eli Hastings tells the story of loving one wrecked soul, and the rich, dark wonder of the joys to be found along the way."
- Paul Lisicky, Author of Famous Builder and Lawnboy
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Falling Room
Falling Room is the tale of how one man matures through the sometimes violent blessing of social change and finds himself--and a sense of purpose -through the loss of innocence and naiveté.
“Time and again I came across passages that just floored me…catapulted me...to some elemental truth about the way things are, the way people think and behave.”
- (RIP) Philip Gerard, Author of Cape Fear Rising
Selected Press
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"...Clearly Now, The Rain is '… a candid, bracing memoir of love, addiction and self-destruction … as elemental, lyrical and cringe-inducing a love story as they come.'”
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"Eli Hastings is the author of two memoirs and a team leader at the Pongo Teen Writing Project. He shares his story with Ross Reynolds..."
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“..Eli Hastings has written a more interesting thing, a self-effacing memoir that attests to the difficulty of knowing the truth of one’s own experience.”
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"There is nothing more important to me than knowing that the book has reached people in the way I hoped it would."
Colt 1911: A Partial Timeline, The Rumpus, July 25, 2013
Mixing Containers, HuffPost, Sep 16, 2013
The Cell I’m in, Flash Fiction online
Short Fiction & Essays
On Pongo, Seattle City of Literature Anthology, 2015
Ghost Train, in The Best of 10,000 Tons of Black Ink, 2012, PUSHCART NOMINATION
Café Racer, America: A Personal Reflection on Gun Violence & Mental Health, in Chautauqua Literary Journal, PUSHCART NOMINATION, 2013
Good, Alright, Fine, in American Lives: A Reader, 2010
Finding Shelter, in 580 Split, 2009
Gettin’ Up, in The Seattle Review, 2006
Falling Room (essay), WINNER CNF Contest, Alligator Juniper, 2005
Accidents Will Happen, in Lightship Anthology 2, INTERNATIONAL PRIZE WINNER, 2012
Crossing, in Pinyon, 2004
Moonfaced Man, in Tulane Review, 2003
Violation, Men Speak Out: View on Gender, Sex, and Power, 2009
Crafting CNF, Show & Tell: Writers on Writing, UNCW University Press, 2015
The Power of Pongo Poetry, Yes! Magazine, 2008
& something @ the awesome r.kv.r.y literary & Blood Lotus @ some point in the old days, and all the ones I forgot…..
Sky, in Third Coast, 2003, PUSHCART NOMINATION
Frog Hunt, Neutrons/Protons, 2008
Out of the Blue, in Whetstone, 2004
Dispatch, Rivendell, 2002
The Mouth of the Bull, Cimarron Review, 2003
I believe in the power of writing to heal so much that I co-created Shadow Work Writers to embrace writing that faces the unseen darkness, the discordant, the fever-dreamt, and the damned-up of humanity’s drives and impulses - not as an idle pursuit but as a path of consciousness.
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