The Kenneth Patchen Award
Anthologies
Synopsis of the Anthology, Offbeat/Quirky
Offbeat/Quirky is the first of a new series of books by the Journal of Experimental Fiction. It is an anthology of innovative fiction with a difference, fe...
Synopsis of the Anthology, Belighted Fiction
This Anthology is a collection of thought-provoking and emotive works, charged with the spirit of delight and wonder as each new possibility is uncovere...
Synopsis of the Anthology, Journal of Experimental Fiction 50
This Anthology is the 50th edition of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and contains some of the most innovative fiction being publis...
Synopsis of the Anthology, Journal of Experimental Fiction 39
This Anthology is a vast panoramic collection of innovative fiction, encompassing countless styles, genres, frames of influence, and ev...
Synopsis of the Anthology, ATTOHO #1
This Anthology features a collection of works from some of the most innovative and creative minds in the literary world. Ripe for Shaking -- Yesterday's News, A...
Synopsis of the Anthology, Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37
This anthology, edited by Jeff Burk, is a collection of some of the most innovative and experimental fiction from the ...
Novels
Winner of the 2022 Kenneth Patchen Award for the Innovative NovelJEF Books assistant editor Penelope Gerdes said the following in her encomium for the novel:“When I sat to read The Makings of a Nob...
Lavishly illustrated in four-color, James R. Hugunin's trilogy of books, Picky Hunting, Picky Unchained, and Picky's Constant Conversations, is now collected together in one convenient form on a h...
In this extraordinary fiction, all letters lead to A, and A is for everyone. One reads between the letter(s) and discovers a new literary form that defies definition. When I first approached this m...
Synopsis of the Novel, Own Little Worlds
Cal Massey is an accomplished author with a background in journalism and a passion for storytelling. His latest novel, Own Little Worlds, is a gripping tale...
Synopsis of the Novel, The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot
The Chronicles of Michel du Jabot is a massive, whale tale kind of a book that exercises the writer in Eckhard Gerdes. The novel is not just...
Synopsis of the Novel, Plague City
Plague City, the 2019 Kenneth Patchen Award Winner, is a genre-defying novel that invites the reader to participate in its narrative. With a collage-style approac...
Short-Fiction
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Collected Stort Shories
Erik Belgum's COLLECTED STORT SHORIES has been called "ten of the stortest shories ever written" and has perhaps been best describe...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Crocodile Smiles: Short Shrift Fictions
Are crocodiles capable of smiling if they can't cry? You'll find the answer within the pages of Yuriy Tarnawsky's l...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Naked Lunch at Tiffany's
Treat yourself to a hot and hilarious lunch served up by Derek Pell, who The Review of Contemporary Fiction hails as "the postmode...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, OD: Docufictions
Harold Jaffe's OD: Docufictions is a collection of 13 short-fiction stories that feature personages who either died of an overdose or were...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Paris 60
Paris 60 is a short-fiction collection from Harold Jaffe, containing 60 entries recorded during Jaffe's Spring 2008 Paris visit. Inspired by Baude...
Synopsis of the Short-Fiction Collection, Q↔A: An Auto-Interview
Q↔A: An Auto-Interview is an auto-interview by novelist and art and photography critic James R. Hugunin. This deluxe hardcover volum...