In Sweden in the twenty-first century, childlessness has emerged as a topic in literature across genres. These narratives take stories about non-motherhood, which are often invisible and abjected from mainstream society, and tell them in new and defiant ways. Moreover, this body of literature depicts a variety of ways of being a non-mother: through involuntary childlessness and infertility, through childlessness by choice and through childlessness by circumstance. This chapter explores a range of literary representations of women without children in twenty-first-century Swedish literature. This chapter discusses fiction, autofiction and personal essays that deal with childlessness and analyses how these representations reclaim the position of non-motherhood in various ways: by telling stories of failed fertility treatments, by embracing the abjected position of non-motherhood and claiming it as a liveable life, and by using laughter and failure to turn things around and propose alternative ways of living. The chapter brings together theories of abjection, laughter and failure to analyse stories that are usually expulsed from the public domain in order to uphold the fertility norm. It shows how abjection, laughter and failure are employed in these narratives to reclaim the position of non-motherhood, to criticise dominant discourses and to imagine different futures.