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Thanks Reactor Magazine and Tobias Carroll for anticipating Hellions in “Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for March and April 2025”: “Elliott has a penchant for blending lived-in settings with big conceptual flexes.”

This fantastic review from Booklist nails what I’ve cooked up with Hellions. Arriving April 15 (Tin House).

Dawson Baker of Free Times covers Hellions in “A Columbia Author Is Releasing a Short Story Collection for ‘Weirdos with a Sense of Wonder.'”

I love the psychedelic book cover and layout that the brilliant Beth Steidle designed for my story collection Hellions (Tin House). Fonts in Use notes the “vibrating color tones” and eye-catching use of Neulis Cursive.

Thanks Liberty Hardy for including Hellions in Book Riot‘s “The Best Remakes of Sci-Fi Films—and More SFF Links.” 

Read about a girl named Cujo who hexes people with otherworldly trampoline stunts. Now live at Reactor Magazine.

Hellions got a great review from Publisher’s Weekly: “A stultifying rural South Carolina provides the backdrop for these intoxicating, fantasy-tinged stories. . . . Elliott’s rich and magical landscape will pull readers in.”

My second short story collection, Hellions (Tin House, April, 2025) is featured in “Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025.”

I love Tin House so much. Look at this beautiful animation they made to feature my Hellions cover (book lands this April). Cover by the amazing Beth Steidle, TH Director of Design and Production.

Check out Advance Reading Copy for a great interview with Jon Mayes and a wonderful review of Hellions by Erin Butler-Mayes.