books
Until It Feels Right, Autofocus Books
non-fiction
“1998-1999,” Autofocus (June 2022)
“Friday, October 15, 2021,” Schuylkill Valley Journal (June 2022)
“Nobody Does It Better: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cover Bands, and Connection,” March Faxness (January 2022)
“Adam Duritz,” Complete Sentence (July 2021) *nominated for The Pushcart Prize
“Footstone,” No Contact (June 2021)
“On ‘Say It Ain’t So,'” March Plaidness (March 2021)
“Too Cool for This Planet,” March Plaidness (February 2021)
“When I Imagine Who Spray Painted Two Opposite-Facing Dicks on the Newly Paved Hill Near My House,” HAD (November 2020)
“Angus (1995),” Wig-Wag (June 2020)
“Ritual,” Hobart (April 2020)
“Chronic Pain Management,” Monkeybicycle (March 2020)
“Beepers,” CHEAP POP (October 2019)
“Make Up Your Mind,” Atticus Review (October 2019)
“One Perfect Episode / The X-Files: ‘The Post-Modern Prometheus,'” Drunk Monkeys (September 2019)
“Rescue,” Tiny Essays (August 2019)
“Cavities,” Pidgeonholes (July 2019)
“My First CD: Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 1,” Hobart (May 2019)
“January 2003,” Memoir Mixtapes (March 2019)
“On Here’s Little Richard,” The RS 500 (February 2019)
“Parts Unknown,” Barrelhouse (August 2018)
“An Open Letter to Limp Bizkit,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (June 2016)
fiction
“Kid gets hit with a basketball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Xmg62n8t8),” Rejection Letters (February 2023)
“Space Cat,” Wigleaf (February 2022) *nominated for Best Microfiction 2023; postcard was Mythic Picnic pick for the month
“Experiencers,” X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine (September 2021)
“We Are the Endangered Species Club,” Pithead Chapel (July 2021)
“Renee Ruins the Only Decent Bagel Place in Town,” Tiny Molecules (June 2021)
“Ethan Marino,” Maudlin House (June 2021)
“We’re All Going to Die Here,” Rejection Letters (December 2020) *Wigleaf Top 50 2021
“What Ever Happened to Glowstick Girl?,” Third Point Press (May 2020)
“Gavlik,” Crack the Spine (April 2020)
“August 1996,” MoonPark Review (September 2019) *nominated for Best Small Fictions 2020
“Cravings,” Taco Bell Quarterly (August 2019)
“Girl on Girl,” Hobart (November 2018)
“Dancing Girls,” Fiddleblack (January 2015)
poetry
“Shelly,” These Poems Are Not What They Seem: An Anthology of Twin Peaks Poetry (March 2020)
“Lists from Grief Counseling, 1993,” Unlost (Journal of Found Poetry & Art), Issue #17 (May 2019)
song recommendations
“Emily Recommends: “King of the Road” by Piebald,” Memoir Mixtapes (March 2020)
“Emily Recommends: ‘Tell Em All to Go to Hell’ by Ezra Furman,” Memoir Mixtapes (July 2019)
“Emily Recommends: ‘Feel the Pain’ by Dinosaur Jr.,” Memoir Mixtapes (June 2019)
“Emily Recommends: ‘We’re the Same’ by Matthew Sweet,” Memoir Mixtapes (May 2019)
Emily Costa 