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