Notes on Attention
Linked essays on what we pay attention to, and how that shapes the stories we tell and remember.
About the project Vol. 24 No. 3
Stories that
matter.
Reporter and essayist writing about work, technology and the people who live with both.
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Current Project
A long-form investigation into how automated systems are reshaping labour, power, and privacy.
Read moreVance finds the human pulse inside the systems stories everyone else skips.
— Editor, The Meridian
Bylines.
Reported features, essays and criticism, placed with magazines and journals I admire.
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Four long-running projects on storytelling, print craft, and how we read now.
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The Printkeeper Interviews
Extended interviews with small-press printers and publishers about their craft and why print still matters.
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Forthcoming Collection
An edited volume of essays and conversations on where storytelling goes next, drawing on both seasoned and new writers.
About the projectAbout Me.
Elliot Vance writes and edits from New York, where he reports on labour, technology and reading culture. He makes narrative nonfiction and criticism, trained through an MFA in Creative Writing, and has been supported by a national arts fellowship and an independent press foundation.
As an editor he shapes long-form manuscripts for independent and established presses, and he is drawn to voices that rarely get a hearing and stories that unsettle the usual account.
Away from the desk he is usually in a Brooklyn archive, secondhand bookshop or cafe, following the next lead.
Elliot Vance
Published in
The Meridian
Award winner
National Press Fellow
Expertise
Literary Nonfiction
Education
MFA Creative Writing
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Commissions, pitches and manuscripts are all welcome; a clear brief makes for the best work.