Experimental Writing Links
"I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained." John Hawkes
Articles on Experimental Literature
Matt Bell: My two favorite stories of 2011 so far are by Darby Larson, whom I'd honestly never heard of until being decked by his "Pulse" in >killauthor. Review by Jonathan Callohan.
"What is Experimental Literature?" by Christopher Higgs at HTML Giant
Interview with Tim Horvath
Interview with Christopher Higgs by Andrew Worthington at Thought Catalogue
"Experimental Fiction," an article about Ernst Weiss in The Tablet by Joshua Cohen
SF Site on Forrest Aquirre: Experimental Fiction by Trent Walters
Trends and Challenges in Modern Literature by Dusan Knezevic which includes a link to a writing community project.
The True World: When Consensual Reality is Not Enough in Margin Magazine, about Magical Realism
in Brad's Reader Thinking Outside the Page
JR Lennon's What's Experimental Fiction? And Do I Like It? in Ward Six
in The Reading Experience: contemporary literature and criticism Experimental Writing essays on authors
Ann Warren's lecture 1 for her Contemporary Literature Class online on trends in contemporary literature
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Interview with Tim Horvath
Interview with Christopher Higgs by Andrew Worthington at Thought Catalogue
"Experimental Fiction," an article about Ernst Weiss in The Tablet by Joshua Cohen
SF Site on Forrest Aquirre: Experimental Fiction by Trent Walters
Trends and Challenges in Modern Literature by Dusan Knezevic which includes a link to a writing community project.
The True World: When Consensual Reality is Not Enough in Margin Magazine, about Magical Realism
in Brad's Reader Thinking Outside the Page
JR Lennon's What's Experimental Fiction? And Do I Like It? in Ward Six
in The Reading Experience: contemporary literature and criticism Experimental Writing essays on authors
Ann Warren's lecture 1 for her Contemporary Literature Class online on trends in contemporary literature
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
The Death of the Absurd? in The Millions
The Valve articles on Experimental Fiction
Lucid Fiction--on Violence in Literature
Experimental Fiction vs Bizarro by Carlon Mellick
Articles on Experimental Fiction in Quarterly Conversation a great list, check it out!
Ten Theses on the Nature of Metafiction by George Fragopuolos
Articles on Post-Modern Fiction in Quarterly Conversation
Ergodic Literature defined
Wikipedia
Frames within Stories by Dory Lynch
on Cistern Tawdry by Eckhard Gerdes at Fugue State Press
Happy Endings, The Experimental Short Story as Metafiction
Reading the Short Story: The Experimental Short Story--
Metastories and Metaphories Review of Fiction 2008 by Becky Tuch
Conversation with Julio Cortazar by Evelyn Garfield
Experimental Literature by Fourth Wall
Lost in the Barthhouse John Barth, by Blair Mahoney
What's Experimental about Experimental Writing?
Science into Poetry on Raymond Queneau by Marjorie Welish in the Boston Review
Writing Consciousness in Contemporary Literature part 1 in Black Clock
Literary Cubism-- A Non Structured Structure for Twenty First Century Storytelling by Mohamed Mughal
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle. Big Other
How Avant is it?
Against the "Impossible to Explain": the Post-Modern Novel and Society
Experimental Fiction: Is it Making a Comeback?
behind-the-scenes/notes-for-teaching-tao-lins-eeeee-eee-eeee/
Brian Evenson on Destabilizing the Story
Brian Evenson interviewed by Chris Higgs
The Necessity of Vision in Experimental Literature
Mortara: a proposal for a new literary subgenre based on hypertext and electronic literature by Juan Pablo Plata
The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature
MFS issue on Avant-Garde
The Good Old Avant-Garde
The Return of British Avant-Garde
Experimental Fiction: Is it Making a Comeback?
Zadie Smith Looks at the Avant-Garde Novel
China's Avant-Garde Fiction
Chinese Post-Modernism
The Great Avant-Garde Hope
Lost Boat
The Last Avant-Garde
Difficult Reading Hour
It's Alive! The Advent of Experimental Fiction
The Reading Experience articles on Experimental Fiction
The Valve articles on Experimental Fiction
Lucid Fiction--on Violence in Literature
Experimental Fiction vs Bizarro by Carlon Mellick
Articles on Experimental Fiction in Quarterly Conversation a great list, check it out!
Ten Theses on the Nature of Metafiction by George Fragopuolos
Articles on Post-Modern Fiction in Quarterly Conversation
Ergodic Literature defined
Wikipedia
Frames within Stories by Dory Lynch
on Cistern Tawdry by Eckhard Gerdes at Fugue State Press
Happy Endings, The Experimental Short Story as Metafiction
Reading the Short Story: The Experimental Short Story--
Metastories and Metaphories Review of Fiction 2008 by Becky Tuch
Conversation with Julio Cortazar by Evelyn Garfield
Experimental Literature by Fourth Wall
Lost in the Barthhouse John Barth, by Blair Mahoney
What's Experimental about Experimental Writing?
Science into Poetry on Raymond Queneau by Marjorie Welish in the Boston Review
Writing Consciousness in Contemporary Literature part 1 in Black Clock
Literary Cubism-- A Non Structured Structure for Twenty First Century Storytelling by Mohamed Mughal
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle. Big Other
How Avant is it?
Against the "Impossible to Explain": the Post-Modern Novel and Society
Experimental Fiction: Is it Making a Comeback?
behind-the-scenes/notes-for-teaching-tao-lins-eeeee-eee-eeee/
Brian Evenson on Destabilizing the Story
Brian Evenson interviewed by Chris Higgs
The Necessity of Vision in Experimental Literature
Mortara: a proposal for a new literary subgenre based on hypertext and electronic literature by Juan Pablo Plata
The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature
MFS issue on Avant-Garde
The Good Old Avant-Garde
The Return of British Avant-Garde
Experimental Fiction: Is it Making a Comeback?
Zadie Smith Looks at the Avant-Garde Novel
China's Avant-Garde Fiction
Chinese Post-Modernism
The Great Avant-Garde Hope
Lost Boat
The Last Avant-Garde
Difficult Reading Hour
It's Alive! The Advent of Experimental Fiction
The Reading Experience articles on Experimental Fiction
Experimental Writing Books
American Experimental Fiction
Rebel Yell by Lance Olsen
Avant-Post
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Writing
Three Boys who Thought Experimental Fiction was for Pussies
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead DeNiro
Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec
Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec by Karen Gould
Snail Gun by Michael Woods
The Laundromat Essay by Kyle Buckley
Overnight to Many Distant Cities, by the famous experimental fiction writer, Donald Barthelme
Transgressions: The Iowa Journal of Innovative Fiction
Novel Beginnings: Experimentls in Eighteenth Century English Fiction
We Who Love to be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America
Allegories of Transition and Transformation: Experimental Fiction by Women Writing Under Dictatorship
Groundworks
an interview with Eckhart Gerdes by David Hoenigman at Word Riot
Race and the Avant-garde
The Reading Experience essays on Experimental works
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing
Another South Experimental Writing in the South
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
What Could Small/Micro/Indie Learn from the Concept of Transmedia Storytelling by Christopher Higgs
The Novel: an Alternative History
Experimental Summer's End
Rebel Yell by Lance Olsen
Avant-Post
Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction
Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Writing
Three Boys who Thought Experimental Fiction was for Pussies
Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead DeNiro
Kelly Link's Magic for Beginners
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Feminist Authors and Experimental Fiction in France and Quebec
Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
Writing in the Feminine: Feminism and Experimental Writing in Quebec by Karen Gould
Snail Gun by Michael Woods
The Laundromat Essay by Kyle Buckley
Overnight to Many Distant Cities, by the famous experimental fiction writer, Donald Barthelme
Transgressions: The Iowa Journal of Innovative Fiction
Novel Beginnings: Experimentls in Eighteenth Century English Fiction
We Who Love to be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics
Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America
Allegories of Transition and Transformation: Experimental Fiction by Women Writing Under Dictatorship
Groundworks
an interview with Eckhart Gerdes by David Hoenigman at Word Riot
Race and the Avant-garde
The Reading Experience essays on Experimental works
Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing
Another South Experimental Writing in the South
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
What Could Small/Micro/Indie Learn from the Concept of Transmedia Storytelling by Christopher Higgs
The Novel: an Alternative History
Experimental Summer's End
Then, there's this
Experimental Writing Page on Facebook
Experimental Write, a playlist of videos of great authors in the genre.
Safety Pin Review
Barnes and Noble Avant-Garde books
David Schneidrman's Videos
Go to the Literary Scene in Exclusive Magazine to find some literary related unusual finds linked. They're great!
Experimental Write, a playlist of videos of great authors in the genre.
Safety Pin Review
Barnes and Noble Avant-Garde books
David Schneidrman's Videos
Go to the Literary Scene in Exclusive Magazine to find some literary related unusual finds linked. They're great!
photo by Thomas Jarrell Bensko
Magazines of Experimental Literature
Conjunctions Magazine
The Valve
Coe Review
Whistling Fire
Gone Lawn Journal
Berkeley Fiction Review
10,000 Tons of Black Ink
Review of Contemporary Fiction
New Letters
WheelHouse Magazine and Press
580 Split
REM
Writing Disorder
Contrary
Streecake
Out of Nothing
Innovative Fiction
Websites on Experimental Writing
Gone Lawn Excavation Project
Cut "N" Mix has pages on postmodernism and experimental writing and a method to generate cutups.
Experimental Fiction/Poetry
Multimedia Theory and Experimental Fiction by Glenn Kurtz with a focus on hypertext
Dead City Library
A Collage of Citations
A Question of MFA Experimental classes David Hebblethwaite's blog
The Modern Word
Haruki Murakami Resources
Nobody Here
Reconstructing Mayakovsky
The Literary Underground
Cut "N" Mix has pages on postmodernism and experimental writing and a method to generate cutups.
Experimental Fiction/Poetry
Multimedia Theory and Experimental Fiction by Glenn Kurtz with a focus on hypertext
Dead City Library
A Collage of Citations
A Question of MFA Experimental classes David Hebblethwaite's blog
The Modern Word
Haruki Murakami Resources
Nobody Here
Reconstructing Mayakovsky
The Literary Underground
Featured Individual Writers
Lists
Library Thing
Eckhard Gerdes' list of Innovative Literature with Heart
Mandatory Experimental Fiction
Barnes and Noble titles
If you were teaching a class in......
Literature: Contemporary: How to find experimental novels and short stories
Selbyslist
The Year in Books--best Experimental Novels of 2009
LibraryThing such as Borges
Eckhard Gerdes' list of Innovative Literature with Heart
Mandatory Experimental Fiction
Barnes and Noble titles
If you were teaching a class in......
Literature: Contemporary: How to find experimental novels and short stories
Selbyslist
The Year in Books--best Experimental Novels of 2009
LibraryThing such as Borges
Experimental Writing Presses
Civil Coping Mechanisms
Jaded Ibis
Dzanc Books
Hotel Saint George
Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink
Dog Horn Press
Chomu Press
Sunny Outside
Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press
Krupskaya Press
Exact Change
Blood Pudding Press
Fugue State Press
Quale Press
Warm Milk
Fact Simile
Fiction Collective 2
Litmus Press
Many Mountains Moving Press
Ellipsis Press
Paragraph Line Books
Singing Horse
Tarpaulin Sky Press
Xenos Books
New Directions Publishing
Dalkey Archive Press
Goldfish Press
Spout Press
Red Ceilings Press
Gibbous House
Fact-Simile
Two-Handed Engine Press
Ronin Press
Chiasmus
Rose Metal Press
Xexoxial
Paper Hero Press
Honest Publishing
Leapfrog Press
Augury Books
McSweeney's
Softskull Press
Black Coffee Press
Future Tense Books
Dark Coast Press
Hotel St. George Press
Rebel Satori Press
Chalk Editions
Subito Press
Unthank Press
HouseFire
Les Figues
Anobium
Cosmopsis
Blue Square
Jaded Ibis
Dzanc Books
Hotel Saint George
Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink
Dog Horn Press
Chomu Press
Sunny Outside
Knives, Forks, and Spoons Press
Krupskaya Press
Exact Change
Blood Pudding Press
Fugue State Press
Quale Press
Warm Milk
Fact Simile
Fiction Collective 2
Litmus Press
Many Mountains Moving Press
Ellipsis Press
Paragraph Line Books
Singing Horse
Tarpaulin Sky Press
Xenos Books
New Directions Publishing
Dalkey Archive Press
Goldfish Press
Spout Press
Red Ceilings Press
Gibbous House
Fact-Simile
Two-Handed Engine Press
Ronin Press
Chiasmus
Rose Metal Press
Xexoxial
Paper Hero Press
Honest Publishing
Leapfrog Press
Augury Books
McSweeney's
Softskull Press
Black Coffee Press
Future Tense Books
Dark Coast Press
Hotel St. George Press
Rebel Satori Press
Chalk Editions
Subito Press
Unthank Press
HouseFire
Les Figues
Anobium
Cosmopsis
Blue Square
Tantra Bensko's Essays on Experimental Writing and Teaching
Quick Questions and Answers with Experimental Writer and Writing Teacher, Tantra Bensko, by Tamara Sellman, who is herself a writer and writing teacher, at Writing Rainbow.
Lucid Fiction in Awakening the Bay
Review of Daughter by Janice Lee
Lucid Membrane
Sci Fi sunday guest introduction and the Guest Blog
Review of Kyle Muntz' Sunshine in the Valley
Dream Memoirs
Review of Circulation by Tim Horvath
What is Experimental Literature? Interview as part of a series, by Christopher Higgs, at HTML GIANT.
Guest Editing Lucid Fiction at Medulla Review
Lucid Fiction issue of Medulla Review
Whimsical Ridiculousness Meets Explorations of Consciousness is something I came across that Zoran Rosko put up by quoting many of my reviews, and some of my writing, etc..
Experimental Writing Classesat Bewildering Stories (also published at SWI Magazine)Challenge 375 Responseon Bewildering Stories One the Unexplainable,another Challenge Response, which was picked for the 2nd Quartly Review of 2010 at Bewildering Stories.Sonia Barrett's interview of me--audioWhat is Experimental Fiction?Doing Something New in Experimental Fiction: Looking at Reader's BlockThe Experience of Taking a Group Class Online may be Surprising
Sara Bond's interview with me at the UCLA Extension site quick versionSara's full interview of me at SWI, with videoWhat is the Dialogue of Experimental Literature? at the Writers College site
Trawling for Lucid Fiction in Recent Issues of Innovative Fiction in Unlikely Stories
Fiction Should Catch Up in Mad Hatters Review
Lucid Fiction: Beyond Anti-Stories first in Retort Magazine, here in SWI
A New Literary Genre: Lucid Fiction in Bewildering Stories Magazine, and here, at Associated Content.
I was interviewed by Ron Bales, of the band Lucid Fiction, about Lucid Fiction
Interviewed by Lit Chaos Magazine by Ra himself
Physiognomy in Letters interviewed me, a great cartoon format. Download or buy Issue 1, and it's on page 17.
Writing Tip for Lit Chaos Expanding the Notions of Character
Interview at Retort Magazine on Lucid Fiction This is one of my more controversial publications, going beyond the literary into what seems to be reality. If you're more interested in experimental literature than Lucid Fiction and the social/political/spiritual/paranormal ideas behind it, you might want to start elsewhere.
Was interviewed by Claire Martin as featured writer for Southern Hum and also interviewed as featured writer by the editor of Global Inner Visions.
Podcast at The Prick of the Spindle
about being nominated for the the Pushcart Prize---audio
Review of Man's Companions by Joanna Ruocco at Tarpaulin Press, at SWI
Experimental Poetry Books by Kathy Burkett Review at SWI
Review of Matt Bell's How They Were Found, at Keyhole Press
Review of Endangered Species, by Traci OConnor at Tarpaulin Sky, at SWI
Review of Aunt Pig of Puglia by Patricia Catto, published by Jaded Ibis Press, at SWI
Review of Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting, which won the Starcherone Prize, at SWI
Review of voices, by Kyle Muntz, out from Enigmatic Ink, at SWI
Review of Miracle Boy and Other Stories by Pinkney Benedict published by Press 53, at The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Review of Event Factory by Renee Gladman put out by The Dorothy Project, at The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Tantra's chapbook, The Cabinet of What You Don't See from ISMs Press
Lucid Fiction in Awakening the Bay
Review of Daughter by Janice Lee
Lucid Membrane
Sci Fi sunday guest introduction and the Guest Blog
Review of Kyle Muntz' Sunshine in the Valley
Dream Memoirs
Review of Circulation by Tim Horvath
What is Experimental Literature? Interview as part of a series, by Christopher Higgs, at HTML GIANT.
Guest Editing Lucid Fiction at Medulla Review
Lucid Fiction issue of Medulla Review
Whimsical Ridiculousness Meets Explorations of Consciousness is something I came across that Zoran Rosko put up by quoting many of my reviews, and some of my writing, etc..
Experimental Writing Classesat Bewildering Stories (also published at SWI Magazine)Challenge 375 Responseon Bewildering Stories One the Unexplainable,another Challenge Response, which was picked for the 2nd Quartly Review of 2010 at Bewildering Stories.Sonia Barrett's interview of me--audioWhat is Experimental Fiction?Doing Something New in Experimental Fiction: Looking at Reader's BlockThe Experience of Taking a Group Class Online may be Surprising
Sara Bond's interview with me at the UCLA Extension site quick versionSara's full interview of me at SWI, with videoWhat is the Dialogue of Experimental Literature? at the Writers College site
Trawling for Lucid Fiction in Recent Issues of Innovative Fiction in Unlikely Stories
Fiction Should Catch Up in Mad Hatters Review
Lucid Fiction: Beyond Anti-Stories first in Retort Magazine, here in SWI
A New Literary Genre: Lucid Fiction in Bewildering Stories Magazine, and here, at Associated Content.
I was interviewed by Ron Bales, of the band Lucid Fiction, about Lucid Fiction
Interviewed by Lit Chaos Magazine by Ra himself
Physiognomy in Letters interviewed me, a great cartoon format. Download or buy Issue 1, and it's on page 17.
Writing Tip for Lit Chaos Expanding the Notions of Character
Interview at Retort Magazine on Lucid Fiction This is one of my more controversial publications, going beyond the literary into what seems to be reality. If you're more interested in experimental literature than Lucid Fiction and the social/political/spiritual/paranormal ideas behind it, you might want to start elsewhere.
Was interviewed by Claire Martin as featured writer for Southern Hum and also interviewed as featured writer by the editor of Global Inner Visions.
Podcast at The Prick of the Spindle
about being nominated for the the Pushcart Prize---audio
Review of Man's Companions by Joanna Ruocco at Tarpaulin Press, at SWI
Experimental Poetry Books by Kathy Burkett Review at SWI
Review of Matt Bell's How They Were Found, at Keyhole Press
Review of Endangered Species, by Traci OConnor at Tarpaulin Sky, at SWI
Review of Aunt Pig of Puglia by Patricia Catto, published by Jaded Ibis Press, at SWI
Review of Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls by Alissa Nutting, which won the Starcherone Prize, at SWI
Review of voices, by Kyle Muntz, out from Enigmatic Ink, at SWI
Review of Miracle Boy and Other Stories by Pinkney Benedict published by Press 53, at The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Review of Event Factory by Renee Gladman put out by The Dorothy Project, at The Best Damn Creative Writing Blog
Tantra's chapbook, The Cabinet of What You Don't See from ISMs Press
Experimental Fiction classes
online: Experimental Fiction Writing Class, group of 15 through UCLA Extension Writing Program with Tantra Bensko
"Writing Experimental Fiction (Online) (Spring 2010) This class is amazing. I never felt my writing ‘fit in’ until this class. I didn’t even know these genres existed! I am so pleased to have found a home! The instructor, Tantra Bensko, teaches from the heart. Not only is she a fantastic author in the realm of Lucid Fiction, but also is an artist. I admire her dedication to the craft and her productivity! Tantra, you are amazing! I am under the impression that this course is a new one for UCLA, and I CHERISH IT! I thank the gods for bringing it to me, and am planning on signing up for every other Tantra course available, UCLA or no. I have been able to open up and write what I want without hindrance for the first time in this course, and successfully so. YAY! DISCLAIMER: You don’t have to be a Lucid Fiction writer to love this course. I think everyone should participate… Harry Potter lovers to Italio Calvino lovers will get something out of it."
online: one on one Experimental Fiction Writing Class through WritersCollege with Tantra Bensko
in LA
Georgetown
New School Progressive Fiction by Robert Lopez, Accidental Realities: Writing Experimental Fiction by Sharon Mesmer
Experimental Writing Workshops in Amherst
downloadable Bernadette Mayer
Class in Australia
"Writing Experimental Fiction (Online) (Spring 2010) This class is amazing. I never felt my writing ‘fit in’ until this class. I didn’t even know these genres existed! I am so pleased to have found a home! The instructor, Tantra Bensko, teaches from the heart. Not only is she a fantastic author in the realm of Lucid Fiction, but also is an artist. I admire her dedication to the craft and her productivity! Tantra, you are amazing! I am under the impression that this course is a new one for UCLA, and I CHERISH IT! I thank the gods for bringing it to me, and am planning on signing up for every other Tantra course available, UCLA or no. I have been able to open up and write what I want without hindrance for the first time in this course, and successfully so. YAY! DISCLAIMER: You don’t have to be a Lucid Fiction writer to love this course. I think everyone should participate… Harry Potter lovers to Italio Calvino lovers will get something out of it."
online: one on one Experimental Fiction Writing Class through WritersCollege with Tantra Bensko
in LA
Georgetown
New School Progressive Fiction by Robert Lopez, Accidental Realities: Writing Experimental Fiction by Sharon Mesmer
Experimental Writing Workshops in Amherst
downloadable Bernadette Mayer
Class in Australia
Experimental Poetry
Who is Hank Lazer?
Tin Fish
Experimental Poetry Today
Selby's List
Experimental Poetry
Can Experimental Poetry Save the Earth?
Tin Fish
Experimental Poetry Today
Selby's List
Experimental Poetry
Can Experimental Poetry Save the Earth?
Experimental Non-Fiction
see Robert Lopez's class at New School
What is Magical Journalism?
A Review of Reader's Block is itself experimental
Jonathan Coe's biography of an author
Transmedia
Movies
Current Contests
photo of Tantra by Aaron Irons
Want to be Involved?
If you have a site, article, press, magazine, interview, etc. that features or is about experimental fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, contact Tantra Bensko at flameflower@runbox.com with experimental fiction in the subject line for a link to it. If you are interested in writing anything to include in the magazine, write to that address with EX Submission in the subject line according to guidelines. Anyone linking to this list is much adored and appreciated. Thank you for helping out the cause of Innovative Literature.
