The Southern Literary Review recommends Hellions in their “2025 SLR Holiday Gift Guide.” “In Hellions Julia Elliott disturbs and bewitches her readers. This collection defies conventional story telling blending Greek and Roman mythology, mysticism, fairy tales and folklore, as well as allusions to the Old Testament and nursey rhymes. Her female characters are formidable. They reject the maiden, mother, and crone archetypes to introduce a new feminist narrative. And on top of that, Elliott’s prose is transcendent.”
