An always-leveling-up list of the wonderful contributors to Cartridge Lit.
Abrahams, Terrence — notes on a new life — October 2018
Acosta, Angela — Four Poems — May 2024
Adams, Ashely — Quantum Entanglement — October 2018
Alvarez, Ana Cristina — Deleted Scenes from a World You Can’t Forget — March 2021
Amico, Brandon — 2 Poems: “Eve of the Carnival” & “Gunpowder Mask” — August 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Brandon Amico — January 2015
Aponte, Elena M. — The Princess Wishes for Her Own Ending — February 2022
Ardis, James — Patch Notes — October 2018
Arrand, Colette — “Rattata” & “Cubone” — December 2014
— Mad Science, Dying Worlds: A Conversation with Colette Arrand — February 2017
Baker, Jenni B. — Five Erasures from ‘Mastering Pac-Man’ — January 2016
Baltazar, Mae — Country Trash Proud — February 2024
Banks, Emily — FIFA — May 2021
Bell, Matt — Paper Dolls (an excerpt from Baldur’s Gate II) — June 2015
Bellas, Georgia — How Not to Win at Big Buck Hunter — June 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Winner
Bender-Murphy, Ryan — Split-Screen and other poems — June 2015
Best, B.J. — on ______ — June 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
Bingham, Riley — The Last of Us — April 2016
Blankenbiller, Tabitha — The Zelda Cut — January 2016
Bodnar, Chelsea — Three BioShock Poems — December 2019
Boucher, Jacqueline — Mysterion — February 2018
Bossé, Haley — The Computer Imagines Me a Boy — May 2024
Bowers, J. — A Horse Draws Near — October 2016
— Unconditionally on Your Side: A Conversation with J. Bowers — March 2017
Brandl, Margaret Emma — Noopy — October 2016
Bratten, April Michelle — Three EverQuest Poems — May 2019
Broadwall, Catherine — Becoming Summoners — April 2016
— Save Point — Airship Column
— The Turtle in the Deep — June 2023
Brouckaert, Justin — When my dad & I played Tecmo Super Bowl — July 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Justin Brouckaert — August 2014
brown, dezireé a. — cackler bridge. — July 2017
— Two Poems — June 2023
Brown, Dylan — Cobra Commander — July 2017
Bryan, Sammi — I’m fragile but not that Fragile — December 2020
Buchanan, Lydia C. — War — March 2022
Burnside, Matthew — Twelve Classic Poems Rewritten by Twelve Classic Video Games — June 2014
— Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost — April 2016
— Secondhand Heavens — December 2019
Byrds, Andrew — Becoming Mammoths, Becoming Trafficlights — November 2021
Celt, Adrienne — The Weight — October 2016
— To Defeat the Devil: A Conversation with Adrienne Celt — March 2017
Chan, Dorothy — Recipe for My Valentine’s Day Lunch Special — December 2019
Chatti, Leila — …Erm, What Is His Name Again? — November 2014 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Chazaro, Alan — Two Poems — October 2018
Childs, K. Jane — Retreat from Battle Now? — November 2014
— Tender Glories — February 2017 — Our Third Chapbook
— Seek Tender Glories: A Conversation with K. Jane Childs — October 2017
Chong, Joyce — RPG in Six Parts — December 2014
Ciccarello, Lisa — Everything Makes a Noise When It Reveals Itself — May 2017 — Our Fifth Chapbook
Clarke, Cassandra — Heavy Rain, Or How I Learned to Play with Life — January 2015
Cook, Imogen — The Farmer on Strike — October 2022
Coons, Mary — A Farmer’s Book of Omens — February 2018
Coryell, Tasha — This Isn’t Really About Fishing — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Tasha Coryell — June 2014
Cox, Reilly — Poem with Kennings and Nuka Cola — December 2019
Crabtree, Jamison — Downpour — November 2014 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
— “we replaced the universe with many tiny things” and other poems — June 2015 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
— please please get over here please — April 2017 — Our Fourth Chapbook
Crenshaw, Paul — Zork: a Treatise on Story — April 2016
Culpepper, Jackson — Epistemology.java — December 2014
— ‘Bozart’ Cohn’s Age of Tribes — October 2016
— ‘Bozart’ Cohn’s Don Quixote — July 2017
— This Atmospheric Weight: A Conversation with Jackson Culpepper — September 2017
— Peril and Hope on Road 96 — March 2023
Cunningham, P. Scott — There Is a Forward Motion in Old Video Games — April 2016
Dante, Joseph — The Dark Hour — July 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Joseph Dante — September 2014
Davis, James — Mega Man — December 2019
— High Scores — Airship Column
Day, Dalton — After Playing Fez For Three Hours, I Listen to My Grandmother Cough Into the Telephone — January 2015
DePass, Trace — ode to pokemon trainer Red — May 2019
Diehl, Dana — Forever Baby — May 2019
Dinsae, Stephanie — Two Poems — May 2022
Donaldson, Emrys — The Bone Desert — May 2019
Donovan, Andrew — Holy Shit (Applied Reverb) — June 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Andrew Donovan — August 2014
Dorneman, Stephen — The Mouth — January 2015
Drobnik, Łukasz — montezuma’s revenge — February 2018
Dunbar, Rachel Springer — Patch Notes — July 2014 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Duncan, Orlantae — Mother (Earthbound) — December 2019
Dutschmann, Jess — Four Poems — January 2016
Dutton, Alysandra — Log Off — March 2021
Eden, Meg — Shigeru Miyamoto Goes Spelunking — April 2016
— Pacman’s Ghosts — May 2019
Ellenberger, James — Monsters Among Us — January 2021
Ellingsen, Berit — Every Thought, Every Motion — July 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Berit Ellingsen — October 2014
— The Memory of Place — October 2016
Euteneuer, Jacob — The Immersive Experience — November 2014
Fissenden, Emma — “Vindicare” & “Tempestas” & “Inquisitio” — October 2016
Foreman, Robert Long — Surrogate Father Simulator 2 — July 2022
Franklin, Jordan — Vergil, Alone — November 2020
Friedland, Elana Lev — The Only Female Bird in the Game (or, Azami Koshiba Speaks) — February 2018
Gershwin, Jay — Japanese Atari Boy — December 2019
Giebel, Peter — The Angel of Myself Is Not Forgiveness — December 2019
Glady, Sarah — Look to the Angry Birds of the Air — August 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Sarah Glady — December 2014
Gonsalez, Marcos — Quest Items — Airship Column
Goodrich, Melissa — Stardew — July 2017
— Poems Need Weeding: A Conversation with Melissa Goodrich — August 2017
Gordon, Philip — democratic domes and anarchical gyres — July 2014
Grieg, Aiko — “Gotz” & “Gamification” — January 2016
Griep, Camille — The Perils of Rosella — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Camille Griep — June 2014
Guzmán, Roy G. — “The Fighter of Nortune” & “Jungian” — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Roy Guzmán — July 2014
Gzemski, Sarah — Playing Video Games during the Pandemic to Control the Uncontrollable — March 2021
Hahn, Kelsie — Donkey Kong Country D’eux — June 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Kelsie Hahn — September 2014
Hall, Hilary — Greenland — February 2018
Handy, Jeff — “Trail” & “Jockey Box Talks” — January 2015
Harris, Ashley — “If the hero was black” and Other Poems — July 2017
— Still My Ancestors: A Conversation with Ashley Harris — October 2017
Hazelton, Rebecca — In the Castle of No Satisfaction — July 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Rebecca Hazelton — September 2014
Hensley, Geramee — “Main Character Disease” and other poems — June 2015
Hillard-Hale, Donora — Erasure — January 2016
Hirsch, Aubrey — Odyssey² — January 2016
Hoffacker, William — Braid in Three Persons — June 2015
Hovda, Sara — Kaizo Block — December 2019
— How to Tank in Overwatch 2 — June 2023
Huey, Amorak — Boomshakalaka — December 2014
Jancewicz, Anna Lea — Play Again — January 2016
Jenkins, Jessica — Prepare to Die — September 2014 — Our First Chapbook
Jenkins, Marlin M. — Letter to Crash Bandicoot — April 2016
Jill, Anastasia — On: Asking a Gamer’s iPhone about the Meaning of Life — February 2018
Johns, Oli — Mega Man 2 — August 2014
Jones, Emma Thomas — Three Poems after Kentucky Route Zero — August 2023
Kaneko, W. Todd — Self Portrait as Flash Gordon — July 2014
Kelly, Tom — Congratulations, Computer! — October 2016
— The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time simulation of an after-school play date in a lawless backwoods commune — October 2018
Kinney, Benjamin — Words Fail Him — July 2017
— A Classic Quest: A Conversation with Benjamin Kinney — September 2017
Landrigan, Marissa — Mara — January 2016
Light, Wheeler — Three Poems — October 2018
Lin, Stephen — Two Skyrim Poems — October 2020
Longmire, Warren C. — Clump Soul. Katamari in 4 Parts. — May 2019
Lu, Fiona — in the language of flowers — August 2022
Luman, Douglas — Four Dungeon Songs — June 2015
Lynn, Julie — Missing Crooked — May 2023
Madden, Caolan — from VAST NECROHOL — April 2016
Madsen, Julia — Doll in Solitude — April 2016
Mancinas, Oscar — Collecting Chaos — April 2021
Marchant, Sarah — Two Poems: “The Masterpiece” & “The Stars” — April 2016
Martone, Sam — An Object You Cannot Lose — January 2015 — Our Second Chapbook
— Gameplaylist: An Object You Cannot Lose — February 2015
— One Player’s Guide: A Conversation with Sam Martone — February 2015
— One Player’s Guide, Act II: A Conversation with Sam Martone — February 2015
— Ten Years a Statue — October 2018
McCall, Jason — “When Your Madden Running Back Retires” and other poems — June 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
McCarthy, John — “Mr. Grey Plays The Sims…” & “Fox McCloud Loses…” — May 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: John McCarthy — July 2014
McKee, Anthony — Dodo Airlines — May 2021
Mesnard, Nat — The Life and Times of doomcock69 — August 2021
Miska, Amanda — FA6-DBB-4C1 — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
Moll, Anthony — You Cannot Save Here — December 2019
Morena, Anthony Michael — Janopolis — October 2018
Morris, Theo — Neoliberalism — May 2022
Morris Lakes, Elizabeth Deanna — Green Gamer — July 2017
— All Deviations and Explorations: A Conversation with Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes — August 2017
Neely-Cohen, Maxwell — Some Cities I Remember Building — October 2016
Nichols, Russell — Cruis’n Is Made for Love — May 2024
Nowak, Thomas — Flashcards — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Thomas Nowak — July 2014
Ojeda-Sague, Gabriel — Dream #6: Isaac — April 2016
— Instructions of the Impossible: A Conversation with Gabriel Ojeda-Sague — April 2017
Oliu, Brian — Goonies II — May 2014 — Best of the Net 2014 Nominee
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Brian Oliu — May 2014
— San Antonio Spurs and the Beyond Yet Under Our Control — June 2015
— John Cena Is the Only Thing That Is Left Here — October 2016
O’Neill, Emily — Sowing Season is Non-Competitive — December 2014 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Pailthorpe, Jordan — “>GET LAMP” and other poems — July 2014 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Pane, Salvatore — Stellaris: The Final Frontier of Late Capitalism — October 2017
Patrick, Jenne Hsien — Katamari Daddy — July 2021
Pearson, Jeff — Self-Portrait as Faris, ‘Bare’ — February 2018
Peck, Geoff — Timothy McVeigh Snared by Kobe’s Musecage — February 2018
Pittman, Rachel — Pelican Town Haibun — June 2021
Ranaraja, Lalini Shanela — Skin Deep — May 2022
Rathke, Edward — The Song of the Black Mages — May 2014
— My Night with the Last of the Black Mages — August 2014
Reid, Bryan — doomyard — January 2015
Rhodes, Wesley Adam — Flying to the Moon — July 2017
Rich, Bobby — Play Manual for GlueMan — February 2018
Riekki, Rob — NV, 1979 — January 2016
Rock, Jeremy — Four Poems — September 2021
— Fabrication — May 2024
Romo, Daniel — Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare — June 2015
Rosen, Angel — A Portrait of Living — August 2023
Russell, Jayme — Mountain Simulator — June 2015 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
— Building a New Text: A Conversation with Jayme Russell — April 2017
Russell, Robert James — Get Over Here — June 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Robert James Russell — August 2014
Rydin, Brent — Moonkin — July 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Brent Rydin — October 2014
Sailor, Matt — New Game Plus — January 2015 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Salisbury, Mike — Blood Meridian for the NES — April 2016
Sanders, Justin — Retrogamer: On the Streets … of Rage — December 2016
Saylor, T. Dallas — Two Poems — February 2023
Schlitzmann, Malt — We Have Always Loved Kana — November 2021
Schultz, Matthew — Three Prose Poems — May 2024
Scott, JD — The Eternal Sadness of Murin and Reynard — October 2016
Shaw, M. — Pokémon Red Is a Kafkaesque Nightmare — February 2018
— Cookie Cutter Money Prison Online — May 2019
Shonkwiler, Eric — Vignettes from Final Fantasy VI — October 2016
Siebel, Pat — You Will Write Yourself All Over Again: A Los Santos Memoir — June 2015
Sinclair, Robin — Two Poems — February 2021
Smith, August — Night of Bush Capturing — July 2017
Southwick, Kimberly Ann — FREEDOM — February 2023
Spece, Joseph — Three Poems: “Albert Wesker” & “Experimental Facility” & “To Piers” — November 2014
— My Samus — June 2015
Spotswood, Phillip — harvest moon: summer solstice — January 2016
Stabley-Conde, Devin — It’s Dangerous to Go Alone — June 2015 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Stebner, Kevin — PLAYTEST — October 2018
Stephenson, Hannah — Whale World — October 2016
Stoll, Kim — Dead or Alive — October 2018
Stone, Jon — Two Poems: “Melting” & “Robot” — August 2014
Strosnider, Ashley — Our Hero, or Faith and Desire: A Voiceover — June 2014
Sullivan, Maggie — Ode to Oot — August 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Maggie Sullivan — January 2015
Sun, Gordon — Albatross — May 2019
Swanson, Liam — “Skull Kid’s Lament for the Dead” and other poems — April 2016
Swearingen-Steadwell, Laura — “Outer Space Love Letter” and other poems — June 2015
Tager, Michael B. — Retrogamer — Airship Column
Teal, Jason — Capable Monsters: An Interview with Marlin M. Jenkins — March 2020
Tedesco, Adam — Is a King of the Blues? — August 2014
— Writer/Gamer Q&A: Adam Tedesco — December 2014
Terhaar, Tim — Mad, as if in Prayer — February 2018
Timson, Rhys — Lights Out with a Click — July 2017
Turner, Alicia — Catherine (with a “C”) — January 2022
Villacres, Wyl — Rainbow Road — December 2014
Vince, Owen — Two Poems: “DRØNE” & “GLITCH” — November 2014
Vollmer, Matthew — Outlaw — May 2019
Wainstein, Nathan — 15 Kills: Solid Perry, The Phantom Pain, Performance — May 2023
Wang, Natalie — & the everblossom withers — October 2021
White, Mia — Retrogamer: Lesbian Everything — June 2016
Winter, Andy — Three Pokémon Poems — May 2019
Worthen, Joe — Cold Planet — June 2014
Xi, Jack — At Least There Is Sometimes a Momentary Sweetness — January 2021
Yaeger, B.R. — The Unauthorized Guide to Circles Drain — June 2015 — Best of the Net 2015 Nominee
Yam, Jerrold — Two Poems: “Pallet Town” & “Manual for Starter Pokemon” — January 2016
Zelesnick, Joshua — Five Poems — March 2021
Zimmerer, Josh — Words Drowned by Fireworks — March 2021