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Journal of Experimental Fiction

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Established in 1984, the Journal of Experimental Fiction is dedicated to publishing the best and most provocative innovative fiction of our times.

My Interests

Innovative fiction.

I'd like to meet:

Idiosyncratic manuscripts. Query first.

Music:

Innovative

Movies:

Innovative

Television:

Innovative

Books:

Our publications include "Apostrophe/Parenthesis" by Frederick Mark Kramer, "The Laugh that Laughs at the Laugh" [an anthology of and about the work of Raymond Federman], "The Literary Terrorism of Harold Jaffe," "Belighted Fiction" and "A-Way With It!" See www.experimentalfiction.com for details.

Heroes:

Laurence Sterne (the great-grandpappy of experimental fiction), James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Raymond Federman, Harold Jaffe, Arno Schmidt, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Kenneth Patchen, Italo Calvino, Eugene Ionesco, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, William Gass, Steve Tomasula, James Chapman, Frederick Mark Kramer, Georgiana Peacher, George Chambers, Kathy Acker, Richard Brautigan, and dozens of other great idiosyncratic novelists and short story writers.

My Blog

"a baby’s rattle in a state-of-the-art chemical research lab"

Brilliant audio artist Erik Belgum has just sent me some praise for "Scuff Mud"!: Eckhard:   Thanks for a copy of Scuff Mud.  Really great work.  At first I was put in the mind of Capta...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:54:00 PST

The Bishop and Keith Fine--Birds of a Feather?

CHICAGO, April 25, 2007John P. Tomkins of Dubuque, Iowa, a disgruntled former postal worker, was arrested today and accused of being "The Bishop," the Unabomber-like mail-bomber who was frightening ...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Tue, 01 May 2007 06:11:00 PST

Our Editor to be set loose on Downtown Chicago!

Hi, everyone! If you have a chance and are going to be anywhere near downtown Chicago next Friday, April 27, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm, stop by the Auditorium Building at Michigan Avenue and Congress Parkw...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:33:00 PST

Our editor escapes to New York!

New York City, here I come! Current mood: hopeful Category: Writing and Poetry Eckhard will be reading from his work with other Red Hen Press authors at New York City's supercool Bowery Poetry...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:49:00 PST

JEF editor Eckhard's Scuff Mud CD nears release!

..> Welcome, friends! Eckhard here.  Scuff Mud, my project with Omaha's superbrilliant improvisational band Shelf Life, is almost done!  The CD should be out very shortly.  I've pu...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:26:00 PST

Interview online at Dream People and new reading date

..> Hello, dear friends,I just wanted to let you know about a couple of new developments:1. Dream People # 27, edited by D. Harlan Wilson, is now up and available at www.dreampeople.org. In it yo...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:49:00 PST

New JEF issues!

Dear Friends of Innovative Fiction, JEF 33, an issue devoted to "Apostrophe/Parenthesis," a brilliant novel by New York novelist and playwright Frederick Mark Kramer, is now available pre-publication...
Posted by Journal of Experimental Fiction on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:47:00 PST