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This is the heart of this resource site, where you will find publishers, magazines, articles, lists, individual authors, stories, reviews, contests, books. There should be something for everyone from people wanting to get an idea of what innovative literature is, to people who make it their careers.

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"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
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                                                   Articles on Non-Traditional Literature

"What is Experimental Literature?" by Christopher Higgs at HTML Giant

Interview with Tim Horvath

Why experimental fiction threatens to destroy publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and life as we know it

The Hysterical Realism Reading List at Anobium


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.

"Obscurity in Poetry, towards an avant-garde poetic" by John C. Goodman - Angel
House Press


The True World: When Consensual Reality is Not Enough
 in Margin Magazine, about Magical Realis

in The Reading Experience: contemporary literature and criticism  Experimental Writing essays on authors

Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
The Death of the Absurd? in The Millions

The Valve articles on Experimental Fiction

The difference between a concept and a constraint

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

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?

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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

Chinese Post-Modernism

The Great Avant-Garde Hope

Lost Boat

Difficult Reading Hour

The Reading Experience articles on Experimental Fiction


What is Experimental Fiction?


Experimental Fiction at its Finest -- and Funniest

Experimental Fiction as Genre and Principle

What's Experimental about Experimental Writing?

Miranda Mellis

I Don't Understand the Idea of Experimental Writing

A Commonplace Blog

What Happened to Experimental Writing?

Experiments


A Handful of Experimental Writers

Experimental Literature

Women Writers and the Restive Text

Danielle Dutton

Review of Tree Codes

Sneaky Author Tricks




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Experimental Writing Books

American Experimental Fiction

Architecture of Possibility

Rebel Yell by Lance Olsen

Writing that Takes Risks

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

Another South

Exercises in Style

Best American Experimental Writing Anthology

Experimental Summer's End

Literature as an Experiment

Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing

The Routeledge Companion to Experimental Literature



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Then, There's This

Experimental Writing Page on Facebook

Scriptjr.ln

Owl Brain Atlas (Snow Eater)

Miniatures

Corbett Report Interview with John Rappoport

The individual against the syndicate in 2044: a short story by John Rappoport

Artist Books at Vamp and Tramp

Maude Nichols by Susan Gibb

Somatics Poetry Exercises

The New Post Literate Gallery

Curiosities

Experiential Experimental Writing

Experimental Write,  a playlist of videos of great authors in the genre.

Safety Pin Review

Experimental Writing Across Borders

Barnes and Noble Avant-Garde books

Accessibility & the avant-garde audio discussion

David Schneidrman's Videos

The Aleph Twitter and Gutenberg Mashup

Experiments in Text: The Literature that Organisms Demand

Experimental Experiential Literature

Audio interview at Raw Dog Screaming with Lance Olsen

Literary Underground Blog Talk Radio

Experimental Film from Sylvia Plath

Phonoethics

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Magazines That Publish Experimental Literature

Ninth Letter

DIAGRAM--check out their playing cards

Crash Test

Ditch Poetry

Shwibly

Infinity's Kitchen

Certain Circuits

Tarpaulin Sky

Dogzplot

Two Hawks Quarterly

Straylight Literary Magazine

The Newer York

Symmetry Pebbles

Bewildering Stories
Super Arrow

Spittoon

A Cappella Zoo

PANK

Maps

Journal of Experimental Fiction
Cormac McCarthy's Dead Typewriter

Lit Chaos

Baltimore Review

elimae

Absurdist Monthly Review
Fiction Week

Word Riot

Fiction

Secret Journal
Monkey Bicycle

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

Birkensnake

Contrary

Streecake

Smalldoggies

Out of Nothing

Innovative Fiction

Other Voices

Oak Bend Review

Trench Foot Gazette

Stone Highway Review
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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
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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

LucidPlay Publishing

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

Featherproof Books

A-Minor Press

Starcherone

Dynatox Ministries

Knives Forks And Spoons Press


Miel

Red Bridge Press
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Avant-Garde Literature 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

Experimental Writing Meet-up Groups

Popular Experimental Writing Books
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 Contemporary Non-Traditional Short Stories and Poems

Typewriter for a Superior Alphabet by Robert Kaye
Psychological Realist Story Generating Machine by Kyle Minor
Itinerary for Wed, Oct 8 by Todd Dills
Neverland by Gabriel Blackwell
A Really Far Ways Off by Kirsten Alene
The Mask of Satan A List to Remember You By by Jamie Grefe
Final Draft in Reverse by Geoff Schutt
Why I Never Finished Stephen King’s The Stand by Mark Jaskowski
The Ladies of the Cracked Gumball Machine by Philip Tinkler
Non-Medical Descriptions of an Object Floating in Glass by Matt Bell
Creating a Radio by Matt Bell
Grim Tales by Norman Lock
Something about a Present Day Jesus by Krammer Abrahams
Substitution Chart by J. Robert Lennon
Things I Learned But No Longer Believe by Bill Yarrow
Short Cuts by Catherine Davis and Marcus Speh
End of Chapter Questions for an Imaginary Textbook by Michael Seidel
This Furniture is a Dining Room Table and a Daughter Called Mountain by J.A. Tyler
Matrixology: fact vs. fiction by Jon Rappoport

Textnovel

My Favourite Sin by Nora Wright

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Grants

Creative Capital

NEA

Funding Sources for Literary Artists Woman Arts
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 Experimental Literature Authors

Ted Pelton

John Barth

Italo Calvino

Julio Cortizar

Jorge Luis Borges

Michael Jacobson

Vanessa Place

Daniel Grandbois

Lily Hoang

Tom Robbins

V. Ulea

Janice Lee

Christopher Higgs


Matt Bell

Philip Golabuk

Molly Gaudry

Blake Butler

Gertrude Stein

Debra Di Blasi

Craig Foltz

John Parras
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                  Some of  Tantra Bensko's Essays on Experimental Literature 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 Classes at Bewildering Stories

Challenge 375 Response on 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--audio

What is Experimental Fiction?

Doing Something New in Experimental Fiction: Looking at Reader's Block

The Experience of Taking a Group Class Online may be Surprising

Sara Bond's interview with me at the UCLA Extension site quick version

Sara's full interview of me at SWI, with video

What 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

Review of Short Tails


Review of The New Arcana


Review of VII: The Life, Times and Tragedy of Sir Edward William Locke the Third: Gentleman, by Kyle Muntz
Check out my about.me profile!
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Experimental Fiction classes

Tantra Bensko's Online Writing Academy specializing in Experimental Literature

5 Part Course

Poetics, Poetry, and Experimental Writing

Experimental Programs

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
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Book Arts, Conceptual Book Objects

Bay Area Book Arts

Book Arts Web

Printed Matter

Center for Book Arts

Jab

Jaded Ibis

ZimZalla

Experimental Poetry

Who is Hank Lazer?

John Moore Williams Visual Poetry

A  Big Win for Experimental Poetry

Ditch Poetry

New Ideas about Black Experimental Poetry

What is Experimental Poetry and Why Do We Need It?

Tin Fish

Experimental Poetry Today

Selby's List

Driver 8: Felino A. Soriano is America’s Experimental Poet

Can Experimental Poetry Save the Earth?
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Experimental Non-Fiction


see Robert Lopez's class at New School

What is Magical Journalism?

Stranger than Fiction

A Literary Magazine for Experimental Non-fiction and Art

A Review of Reader's Block is itself experimental

Jonathan Coe's biography of an author


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Transmedia

Advice

25 Things You Should Know about Transmedia Storytelling


A Transmedia Experiment

Alt Minds and the Art of French Transmedia
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 Innovative Movies

Jodorowsky

Review of The Stalker

Tristram Shandy

The Fall

Sergie Paradjanov

The Brothers Quay

Jan Svankmajer

Guy Maddin

How Wings are Attached to the Backs of Angels

Breakfast on the Grass

Hen, His Wife

The Triplets of Beleville
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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, and you'd like to see it here, contact Tantra Bensko at [email protected] with experimental fiction in the subject line for a link to it.

Anyone linking to this list is much adored and appreciated. Thank you for helping out the cause of Innovative Literature.

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