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== Bibliography ==  
== Bibliography ==  
=== Books ===
=== Books ===
Works composed collaboratively, with no strict boundaries between the contributions of individuals.
* ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra'' (2014) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/6/62/The-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra-hardcover-edition/hardcover/product-14mz8rm7.html print]
* ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra'' (2014) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/6/62/The-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/anonymous/the-legacy-of-totalitarianism-in-a-tundra-hardcover-edition/hardcover/product-14mz8rm7.html print]
* ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra II: Miami'' (2015) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/c/cb/The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_In_a_Tundra_II_Miami.pdf PDF]
* ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra II: Miami'' (2015) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/c/cb/The_Legacy_of_Totalitarianism_In_a_Tundra_II_Miami.pdf PDF]
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=== Anthologies and periodicals ===
=== Anthologies and periodicals ===
Works which took individual submissions, ''e.g.,'' by email or thread replies, and composed them into larger documents.
* ''Zine Writers Guild'' (ZWG) (2010)
* ''Zine Writers Guild'' (ZWG) (2010)
* ''The April Reader'' (TAR) (2011-2013)
* ''The April Reader'' (TAR) (2011-2013)
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* ''The Lit Quarterly'' (2019-2020)
* ''The Lit Quarterly'' (2019-2020)
* ''Flash Fiction Anthology'' (2021), a.k.a. ''FFA''
* ''Flash Fiction Anthology'' (2021), a.k.a. ''FFA''
* ''&amp'' (2021-2023, 2025)<ref>Highly sporadic releases.</ref>
* ''&amp'' (2021-2023, 2025)
* ''Magnum'' (2024) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/8/80/Magnum_vol01_rev01.pdf PDF]
* ''Magnum'' (2024) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/8/80/Magnum_vol01_rev01.pdf PDF]
* ''/lit/ winners club'' (2025-)


=== Compilations ===
==== Compilations ====
Works containing previously published /lit/ writing.
* ''A Short Fiction Anthology'' (February 2024), selected from the three ''FFA'' releases — [https://www.lulu.com/shop/lit/a-short-fiction-anthology/paperback/product-65qqyzd.html print]
* ''A Short Fiction Anthology'' (February 2024), selected from the three ''FFA'' releases — [https://www.lulu.com/shop/lit/a-short-fiction-anthology/paperback/product-65qqyzd.html print]
* ''&amp: the best of issues 001-014'' (November 2024) — [https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/assets/the_best_of_amp_digital.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/lit/amp-the-best-of-issues-001-014/paperback/product-v846vq6.html print], [https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/ site]
* ''&amp: the best of issues 001-014'' (November 2024) — [https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/assets/the_best_of_amp_digital.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/lit/amp-the-best-of-issues-001-014/paperback/product-v846vq6.html print], [https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/ site]
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=== Miscellaneous ===
=== Miscellaneous ===
* ''Moby-Dick: A /lit/ Annotated Classic'' (2020) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/3/3a/Moby-Dick_-_A_lit_Annotated_Edition_by_Herman_Melville.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html print]
* ''Moby-Dick: A /lit/ Annotated Classic'' (2020) — [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/3/3a/Moby-Dick_-_A_lit_Annotated_Edition_by_Herman_Melville.pdf PDF], [https://www.lulu.com/shop/herman-melville-and-anonymous/moby-dick/paperback/product-7wgny7.html print]
* ''Lit Writing Contest (/lwc/)'' fka ''/lit/ Short Story Writing Contest'' (2024-)


=== Unfinished works ===
=== Unfinished works ===
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== Notable Works ==
== Books ==
=== ''The April Reader'' ===
The most prolific, publishing 30 total issues on a bi-monthly schedule, and from issue 8 onward offered a cash prize ($10 from each editor, for a total between $20 and $40) to a single author from each release. The magazine was hosted from two websites: https://www.theaprilreader.org/ between issues 11 and 16, and https://theaprilreader.wordpress.com/ from issue 17 on. The magazine had a Twitter presence since the second issue,<ref>[https://x.com/theaprilreader]</ref> and a Tumblr pressence since the 22nd.<ref>[https://theaprilreader.tumblr.com]</ref>
 
=== ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra'' ===
=== ''The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra'' ===
Per the Lulu blurb:
Per the Lulu blurb:
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:A postmodern collaborative writing effort containing Slavoj Žižek erotica, top secret Donald Trump emails, poetry, repair instructions for future cars, a history of bottles in the Ottoman empire; actually, it contains everything since it takes place in the Hypersphere, and the Hypersphere is a big place; really big in fact.
:A postmodern collaborative writing effort containing Slavoj Žižek erotica, top secret Donald Trump emails, poetry, repair instructions for future cars, a history of bottles in the Ottoman empire; actually, it contains everything since it takes place in the Hypersphere, and the Hypersphere is a big place; really big in fact.
Included in the [https://printedweb.org/ Library of the Print Web],<ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/post/138547495789/anonymous-4chan-lit-hypersphere]</ref><ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/post/165423630979/soulellis-library-of-the-printed-web-collected Library of the Printed Web: Collected Works 2013–2017 (p68-9)] [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gufyu2n8woy5kt6p2z9vr/LotPW-MoMA_design_final_lo.pdf?rlkey=o3tfpsro5gj4v0l8kj3xl307a&e=1&dl=0 PDF]</ref>; the Museum of Modern Art Library acquired this collection in January 2017<ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/about Library of the Printed Web, About]</ref>, and a copy of Hypersphere remains available there.<ref>[https://search.worldcat.org/title/993707113 Hypersphere at WorldCat]</ref>
Included in the [https://printedweb.org/ Library of the Print Web],<ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/post/138547495789/anonymous-4chan-lit-hypersphere]</ref><ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/post/165423630979/soulellis-library-of-the-printed-web-collected Library of the Printed Web: Collected Works 2013–2017 (p68-9)] [https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gufyu2n8woy5kt6p2z9vr/LotPW-MoMA_design_final_lo.pdf?rlkey=o3tfpsro5gj4v0l8kj3xl307a&e=1&dl=0 PDF]</ref>; the Museum of Modern Art Library acquired this collection in January 2017<ref>[https://libraryoftheprintedweb.tumblr.com/about Library of the Printed Web, About]</ref>, and a copy of Hypersphere remains available there.<ref>[https://search.worldcat.org/title/993707113 Hypersphere at WorldCat]</ref>
== Anthologies and Periodicals ==
=== ''The April Reader'' ===
The most prolific, publishing 30 total issues on a bi-monthly schedule, and from issue 8 onward offered a cash prize ($10 from each editor, for a total between $20 and $40) to a single author from each release. The magazine was hosted from two websites: https://www.theaprilreader.org/ between issues 11 and 16, and https://theaprilreader.wordpress.com/ from issue 17 on. The magazine had a Twitter presence since the second issue,<ref>[https://x.com/theaprilreader]</ref> and a Tumblr pressence since the 22nd.<ref>[https://theaprilreader.tumblr.com]</ref>
=== ''Pinecone'' ===
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! colspan="2" | Issues and downloads
|-
| Pinecone 00000 (online) || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/a/a5/Pinecone_00000%2C_online.pdf PDF]
|-
| Pinecone 00000 (print) || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/c/c4/Pinecone_00000%2C_print.pdf PDF]
|-
| Pinecone 10000 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/4/42/Pinecone_10000.pdf PDF]
|-
| Pinecone 420 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/5/53/Pinecone_420.pdf PDF]
|}


=== ''The Lit Quarterly'' ===
=== ''The Lit Quarterly'' ===
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! colspan="3" | Issues and Downloads
! colspan="3" | Issues and downloads
|-
|-
| Geneses || Fall 2019 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/a/aa/1_Fall_2019_-_The_Lit_Quarterly_FINAL.pdf PDF]
| Geneses || Fall 2019 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/a/aa/1_Fall_2019_-_The_Lit_Quarterly_FINAL.pdf PDF]
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=== ''&amp'' ===
=== ''&amp'' ===
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! colspan="3" | Issues and Downloads
! colspan="3" | Issues and downloads
|-
|-
| &amp 001 || January 2021** || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/1/17/Lamp001.pdf PDF]
| &amp 001 || January 2021** || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/1/17/Lamp001.pdf PDF]
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| colspan="3" | *photo books
| colspan="3" | *photo books
|-
|-
| colspan="3" | **true releases the month prior
| colspan="3" | **true release dates the month prior
|-
|-
|}
|}
==== ''&amp: the best of issues 001-014'' ====
An unofficial compilation selected broadly by consensus on /lit/ following the release of &amp issues 014, organized and edited by a former contributor to the magazine. From the website:
:Over fifty pieces of writing were winnowed down from the span of &amp, selected based on their calibre as well as for their representation of the magazine and the board. For their appearance in the best-of, these pieces of writing have been fully edited and re-illustrated, stripped back from their original presentation in &amp to appear here in austere greyscale.<ref>[https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/]</ref>
According to the editor, two print copies are possessed by the office of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on account of an agreement to licence his photo ''Breezewood, Pennsylvania'' for the anthology.<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23997997#p24000482 >>>/lit/24000482]</ref>


=== The Flash Fiction Anthologies ===
=== The Flash Fiction Anthologies ===
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
! colspan="3" | Issues and Downloads
! colspan="3" | Issues and downloads
|-
|-
| Gifts Evil and Good || March 2021 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/e/eb/FFA_01_Gifts-Evil-and-Good-Generic.pdf PDF (generic)]
| Gifts Evil and Good || March 2021 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/e/eb/FFA_01_Gifts-Evil-and-Good-Generic.pdf PDF (generic)]
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The table of contents was not posted in the release thread, and the compilation is available only in print.
The table of contents was not posted in the release thread, and the compilation is available only in print.


=== ''&amp: the best of issues 001-014'' ===
=== ''/lit/ winners club'' ===
An unofficial compilation selected broadly by consensus on /lit/ following the release of &amp issues 014, organized and edited by a former contributor to the magazine. From the website:
{| class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"
:Over fifty pieces of writing were winnowed down from the span of &amp, selected based on their calibre as well as for their representation of the magazine and the board. For their appearance in the best-of, these pieces of writing have been fully edited and re-illustrated, stripped back from their original presentation in &amp to appear here in austere greyscale.<ref>[https://the-best-of-amp.github.io/]</ref>
! colspan="3" | Issues and downloads
According to the editor, two print copies are possessed by the office of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on account of an agreement to licence his photo ''Breezewood, Pennsylvania'' for the anthology.<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23997997#p24000482 >>>/lit/24000482]</ref>
|-
| August 2025 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/f/f4/Lit_winners_club_august_2025.pdf PDF]
|-
| September 2025 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/4/43/Lit_winners_club_2025-09.pdf PDF]
|-
| October 2025 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/9/97/Lit_winners_club_2025-10.pdf PDF]
|-
| November 2025 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/a/a9/Lit_winners_club_2025-11.pdf PDF]
|-
| December 2025 || [https://lit.trainroll.xyz/images/1/1f/Lit_winners_club_2025-12.pdf PDF]
|}
The winners of each ''Lit’s Writing Competition'' (/lwc/) and (for a time) ''Writing Inspired by Art Challenge'' (/wibac/), compiled into monthly releases by a third party, so far comprising the contests since August 2025. /lwc/ has run since February 2025<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S24225083 >>>/lit/24225083]</ref>, although it is a continuation of the ''/lit/ Short Story Writing Contest'' that happened twice, in December 2024<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S24067424 >>>/lit/24067424]</ref> and January 2025<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S24121691 >>>/lit/24121691]</ref>; entries are required to incorporate certain elements stipulated in each month's contest, and winners are determined by a popular vote. /wibac/ was a brief off-shoot of /lwc/, aimed at flash fiction prompted by a single image, with winners determined by a closed cast of judges, often /lwc/ entrants and winners<ref>[https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S24640140 >>>/lit/24640140]</ref>.


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 05:03, 3 February 2026

A successor to Original Content.

/lit/ has produced various collaborative works, most often in the form of books or periodicals. This page particularly pertains to those that were open to outside submissions, i.e., not exclusively the work of an individual or closed group. Books by /lit/ have been collectively written via public Google Docs, with an admin who manages revisions and sometimes edits the final book for print by services such as Lulu. Periodicals and anthologies have accepted discrete submissions by emails, threads, and websites, largely without pay but publishing the works in free PDFs.

Bibliography

Books

Works composed collaboratively, with no strict boundaries between the contributions of individuals.

  • The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra (2014) — PDF, print
  • The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra II: Miami (2015) — PDF
  • The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra 3: Tokyo Drift (2015) — PDF
  • Hypersphere (2015) — PDF, print
  • Pictures of DFW; or, C:\Users\Anon\Pictures\DFW (2016) — print
  • Dreamscape; or, My Diary Desu (2017) — PDF
  • L'Anomie ou le tumulte des tapirs (2018) — PDF
  • The Complete Works of God II (2018) — PDF
  • Coronameron (2020) — PDF

Anthologies and periodicals

Works which took individual submissions, e.g., by email or thread replies, and composed them into larger documents.

  • Zine Writers Guild (ZWG) (2010)
  • The April Reader (TAR) (2011-2013)
  • The Metric (2013-2014)
  • Pinecone (2015)
  • Ideology (2015-2016)
  • The Lit Quarterly (2019-2020)
  • Flash Fiction Anthology (2021), a.k.a. FFA
  • &amp (2021-2023, 2025)
  • Magnum (2024) — PDF
  • /lit/ winners club (2025-)

Compilations

Works containing previously published /lit/ writing.

  • A Short Fiction Anthology (February 2024), selected from the three FFA releases — print
  • &amp: the best of issues 001-014 (November 2024) — PDF, print, site

Miscellaneous

  • Moby-Dick: A /lit/ Annotated Classic (2020) — PDF, print

Unfinished works

Works that at least collected material or received submissions but never saw a true release.

  • The Quagga Project (2015)
  • &non (2023)[1]
  • For (you) (2024)[1]
  • The Lit Book of Cocktails (2023-2024)
  • Picturesque: or, Meeting the Masters (2024)


Books

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra

Per the Lulu blurb:

/lit/ Approved Epic Fantasy
As featured in: Harold Bloom’s Shiterary Canon - The Best and Worst of Postmodernist Literature Donetsk Times Best Selling Author
An insight into the spook-conscious
Enter the toxic post-ironic internet culture of /lit/

Included in the Library of Artistic Print on Demand[2][3], with the collection being moved to the Bavarian State Library in November 2023[4]. A series of unfinished recordings of readings from the book was made.[5]

Hypersphere

Per the Lulu blurb:

Hypersphere, written by Anonymous with the help of the 4chan board /lit/ (of The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra fame) is an epic tale spanning over 700 pages.
A postmodern collaborative writing effort containing Slavoj Žižek erotica, top secret Donald Trump emails, poetry, repair instructions for future cars, a history of bottles in the Ottoman empire; actually, it contains everything since it takes place in the Hypersphere, and the Hypersphere is a big place; really big in fact.

Included in the Library of the Print Web,[6][7]; the Museum of Modern Art Library acquired this collection in January 2017[8], and a copy of Hypersphere remains available there.[9]

Anthologies and Periodicals

The April Reader

The most prolific, publishing 30 total issues on a bi-monthly schedule, and from issue 8 onward offered a cash prize ($10 from each editor, for a total between $20 and $40) to a single author from each release. The magazine was hosted from two websites: https://www.theaprilreader.org/ between issues 11 and 16, and https://theaprilreader.wordpress.com/ from issue 17 on. The magazine had a Twitter presence since the second issue,[10] and a Tumblr pressence since the 22nd.[11]

Pinecone

Issues and downloads
Pinecone 00000 (online) PDF
Pinecone 00000 (print) PDF
Pinecone 10000 PDF
Pinecone 420 PDF

The Lit Quarterly

Issues and downloads
Geneses Fall 2019 PDF
Hearthside Winter 2019 PDF
Asterism Spring 2020 PDF
Heres and Nows Summer 2020 PDF
Tiptoe Winter 2021 PDF

The only /lit/ magazine to offer payment for every accepted submission, at $100 each, and the only to charge for digital copies, at $5, with limited-run print copies available by inquiry. After the third release an influx of submissions from outside /lit/ began, overwhelming the editors and diluting the presence of writing from /lit/. The editors discussed the magazine in an interview for the blog Six Questions For . . . in November 2020[12].

&amp

Issues and downloads
&amp 001 January 2021** PDF
&amp 002* February 2021 PDF
&amp 003 February 2021 PDF
&amp 004 March 2021 PDF
&amp 005 April 2021 PDF
&amp 006 May 2021 PDF
&amp 007 June 2021 PDF
&amp 008 August 2021 PDF
&amp 009 September 2021 PDF
&amp 010 October 2021 PDF
&amp 011 November 2021 PDF
&amp 012 May 2022 PDF
&amp 013* June 2022 PDF
&amp 014 July 2022 PDF
&amp 015 March 2023 PDF
&amp 016 June 2023 PDF
&amp 017 July 2023 PDF
&amp 018 August 2023 PDF
&amp 019 December 2023 PDF
&amp 020 July 2025 PDF
&amp 021 January 2026** PDF
*photo books
**true release dates the month prior

&amp: the best of issues 001-014

An unofficial compilation selected broadly by consensus on /lit/ following the release of &amp issues 014, organized and edited by a former contributor to the magazine. From the website:

Over fifty pieces of writing were winnowed down from the span of &amp, selected based on their calibre as well as for their representation of the magazine and the board. For their appearance in the best-of, these pieces of writing have been fully edited and re-illustrated, stripped back from their original presentation in &amp to appear here in austere greyscale.[13]

According to the editor, two print copies are possessed by the office of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky on account of an agreement to licence his photo Breezewood, Pennsylvania for the anthology.[14]

The Flash Fiction Anthologies

Issues and downloads
Gifts Evil and Good March 2021 PDF (generic)
Rags and Bones April 2021 PDF (generic)
Simian Deluxe November 2021 PDF (generic)

Each piece is based on a prompt in an OP, forming the titles as they appear within the anthologies, with entries coming via thread replies. Beyond adhering to a prompt, the requirements were generally:

1,000-word maximum. No porn, extreme abuse or gore, anything that would cause the book to be taken down, etc. Original fiction written for the anthology.

Posters were also encouraged to provide new prompts.

A Short Fiction Anthology (FFA compilation)

Selected from the three FFA releases, presumably by the original editor, with the original releases being removed from print. From the release thread:

Forty stories from those anthologies have been selected, re-edited, and formatted for paperback purchase at the lowest possible no-profit price. It was done because the stories are excellent and worthy of fresh publication.[15]

The table of contents was not posted in the release thread, and the compilation is available only in print.

/lit/ winners club

Issues and downloads
August 2025 PDF
September 2025 PDF
October 2025 PDF
November 2025 PDF
December 2025 PDF

The winners of each Lit’s Writing Competition (/lwc/) and (for a time) Writing Inspired by Art Challenge (/wibac/), compiled into monthly releases by a third party, so far comprising the contests since August 2025. /lwc/ has run since February 2025[16], although it is a continuation of the /lit/ Short Story Writing Contest that happened twice, in December 2024[17] and January 2025[18]; entries are required to incorporate certain elements stipulated in each month's contest, and winners are determined by a popular vote. /wibac/ was a brief off-shoot of /lwc/, aimed at flash fiction prompted by a single image, with winners determined by a closed cast of judges, often /lwc/ entrants and winners[19].

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Submissions were reused in Magnum
  2. ↑ Library of Artistic Print on Demand
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
  5. ↑ The Egostist (sic) on YouTube
  6. ↑ [3]
  7. ↑ Library of the Printed Web: Collected Works 2013–2017 (p68-9) PDF
  8. ↑ Library of the Printed Web, About
  9. ↑ Hypersphere at WorldCat
  10. ↑ [4]
  11. ↑ [5]
  12. ↑ Six Questions for Kyle Diduck and Jay Miller, editors of The Lit Quarterly
  13. ↑ [6]
  14. ↑ >>>/lit/24000482
  15. ↑ >>>/lit/23118213
  16. ↑ >>>/lit/24225083
  17. ↑ >>>/lit/24067424
  18. ↑ >>>/lit/24121691
  19. ↑ >>>/lit/24640140
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