Literature

Creative Capital supports artists for the creation of bold, risk-taking, and genre-stretching projects in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels—including Percival Everett, Maggie Nelson, Sabrina Mark, Legacy Russell, Cole Swenson, Rebecca Solnit, and Nathan Schafer.

Featured Literature

A map pf the United States with a triangle and the text

CAConrad

Resurrect Extinct Vibration

Resurrect Extinct Vibration is a (Soma)tic poetry ritual in nine maneuvers, including lying on the ground across the US to saturate their body with recordings of recently extinct animals and strategically placing index cards in public with email correspondences for each animal, to result in a total of 108 poems.
Amerikan Woman

Johanna Fateman

Amerikan Woman

Amerikan Woman is a book-length work of experimental nonfiction that merges the artist's biographical research about radical feminist writer and antipornography activist Andrea Dworkin with her own memoir.
The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

The Argonauts

The Argonauts is a book that combines autobiography and theoretical inquiry to address issues of gender, queerness, family-making, identity and the limitations and possibilities of language.
Eadweard Muybridge, Horses. Gallop; thoroughbred bay mare (Annie G) with male rider, from “Animal locomotion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements”, 1872-1875.

Legacy Russell

Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us

In Black Meme, Legacy Russell explores the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to the present, mining both archival and contemporary media.
The Sellout

Paul Beatty

The Sellout

The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality—the black Chinese restaurant.
Telephone

Percival Everett

Telephone

A deeply affecting story about the lengths to which loss and grief will drive us, Telephone  will shake you to the core as it asks questions about the power of narrative to save.
Happily: A Personal History — With Fairytales

Sabrina Orah Mark

Happily: A Personal History — With Fairytales

Sabrina Orah Mark expands her monthly column, Happily, into a collection of essays on fairy tales and motherhood, using the fairy tale to shed light on the here and now.
From Book Two, the story of the CSS Shenandoah, the boat that fired the last shots fired in the American Civil War in the Diomede Islands.

Nathan Shafer

Wintermoot

Wintermoot incorporates social practice, augmented reality, graphic novels, and digital humanities to form a series of interconnected epic tales of supernatural people from all over Alaska, spanning several generations.
White Magic

Elissa Washuta

White Magic

White Magic is a personal essay collection about heartbreak, sexual violation, and the artist’s process of becoming a powerful witch.
Genuine Herstory: Documythographies

Marcia Douglas

Genuine Herstory: Documythographies

Genuine Herstory: Documythographies is a three-volume, hybrid, and cross-genre writing project culminating with a performance installation.