The Kenneth Patchen Award
Anthologies
Offbeat/Quirky is the first of a new series of books by JEF. It is an anthology of innovative fiction with a difference, of forty-six of the bravest voices in literature writing today.
List of Cont...
In a literary world where we see the constant rush of lemmings diving gleefully off cliffs into the seas of mediocrity and convention, it is refreshing to find that there are creative writers out t...
The 50th edition of the Journal of Experimental Fiction is an anthology of some of the most innovative fiction being published in the world today and contains examples of experimental writing by a ...
This anthology is vastly panoramic in scope, encompassing countless styles, genres, frames of influence, and even geographic locations, from authors both new and influential. For years, the Journal...
ATTOHO List of Contents Ripe for Shaking -- Yesterday's News Afterthem Ð Giraffe Michael A. Arnzen -- Driving the Sick Elephant Dead Letter Office Ð- The Fallen Scuff Mud (featuring Eckhard Gerdes ...
About the Editors
Eckhard Gerdes is the author of 14 novels of innovative fiction and the founder and editor of The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Jeff Burk is the author of Shatnerquake! and edi...
Novels
Winner of the 2020 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel.
Four days before the presidential election, a bomb explodes on a Japanese cargo ship in the Port of Jacksonville, incinerating fou...
"Have you seen whales frolicking in the sea—giant masses of shiny wet flesh gracefully rising up into the air and then just as gracefully plunging back into the water? They do it not to catch flies...
Winner of the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award of the Innovative Novel!
"Innovative and engaging from the start Plague City draws the reader in with forms and a genreless narrative presented via reader p...
Asked to lead an investigation by the Bureau into the inexplicable behavior of a town that has seemingly gone insane, a highly regarded psychology professor encounters absurdist leaders, madcap cit...
Picky Hunting: A Journal of the Plague Year finds Picky Hunting, a retired Jewish psychoanalyst with a strong background in English Literature (B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago) and a r...
The 2018 winner of the Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative Novel is Patrick Keller, of Long Beach, California, for his novel, Those Brave As the Skate Is.
The contest judge, the late novelist,...
Short-Fiction
Erik Belgum's COLLECTED STORT SHORIES have been called "ten of the stortest shories ever written" and has perhaps been best described as "ten randomly generated words: splization, clackosaphy, phum...
In a new, expanded edition!
Female barbers attached to a pair of scissors that won't stop, women who can't conceal hard-earned wads of hundred dollar bills sticking up under their polka dot bikini ...
Satire. Treat yourself to a hot and hilarious lunch served up by the author of Assassination Rhapsody, who The Review of Contemporary Fiction hails as "the postmodern master of parody." This collec...
Each of Harold Jaffe's 13 docufictions features a well-known personage who either died of an overdose or was invested in "drugs" to the extent that they contributed to his or her death. Marilyn Mon...
The 60 entries that constitute Paris 60 were recorded during Harold Jaffe's Spring 2008 Paris visit to greet the translation into French of one of his earlier volumes. Based loosely on Baudelaire's...
Q↔A: An Auto-Interview is, at heart, as its title suggests, an auto-interview by novelist and art and photography critic James R. Hugunin. It delves into the nature of his work, both literary and c...