Anthologies
Offbeat/Quirky is the seventy-third issue of the Journal of Experimental Fiction and the first book of the Offbeat/Quirky Books imprint, a thematic anthology edited by Eckhard Gerdes. Forty-six con...
Belighted Fiction is the fourth issue of the Journal of Experimental Fiction, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. The title states the editorial premise: "belighted" prose, fiction made light, charged with t...
A milestone number in the press's print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. The fiftieth issue marks a journal launched in 1986 alongside Depth Charge Press and kept running since.
A general issue, a...
A general number in the print annual, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. General issues carry no single theme and no tribute subject. They are open-submission gatherings of the most ambitious prose the edit...
ATTOHO #1 is the first issue of JEF's audio anthology series, edited by Eckhard Gerdes. Where the Journal of Experimental Fiction publishes innovative prose on the page, ATTOHO carries it into soun...
Bizarro Fiction! Journal of Experimental Fiction 37 is the issue where the Portland bizarro scene crossed into JEF. Jeff Burk co-edited it with founder Eckhard Gerdes, importing a whole circle of w...
Novels
“In The Cryptic Reflex, P. K. Garrison creates a John Huston noir, in which Indiana Jones finds himself in Jurassic Park and cyborg fauns chase maidens with prosthetic rumps. While engaging in thes...
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RED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill, a New York playwright. It is the story of Kimberly, a grown woman, and Red Girl, a shard of ...
Broken Identities (2025) is Denis Emorine's second JEF novella, the English version of Identités brisées, published by 5 Sens Éditions in Geneva in 2023. Its protagonist is again Dominique Valarche...
The fifth JEF novel from Frederick Mark Kramer, extending a Manhattan cycle the press has been publishing since 2011: Apostrophe/Parenthesis, Ambiguity, Meanwhile, Passions and Shadows or Shadows a...
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is the second half of Yuriy Tarnawsky's First-Person Dilogy, published in 2024, the year before his death at 91. Where its companion Sebastian in a Dream is built o...
Sebastian in a Dream is the first half of Tarnawsky's final dilogy, published the year before his death in October 2025. The structure is borrowed from Bach's Goldberg Variations: thirty variations...
Short-Fiction
A ten-piece collection that puns on its own typos and describes itself as "ten of the stortest shories ever written." The pieces fold algorithmically generated language in with found and documentar...
Crocodile Smiles is Tarnawsky's collection of what he called short shrift fictions: compressed, absurdist, lit as if on a bright stage. The title asks whether a crocodile can smile if it cannot cry...
Longing Letters Lasting, Lasting Letters Longing is a short-fiction collection that takes a position about language: that meaning is made in words, not found behind them. The working premise is Bec...
Naked Lunch at Tiffany's: Erotic Classics Reimagined takes a single target and works it end to end: the erotic canon. Derek Pell rewrites and roasts the major works of classic and contemporary erot...
OD: Docufictions is a collection of thirteen short fictions built around a single fact: thirteen famous personages who either died of an overdose or were so invested in drugs that the drugs helped ...
Paris 60 is sixty short entries, some fictionalized and some factual, recorded across a Paris spring and written against the template of Baudelaire's Paris Spleen. The number is the structure: sixt...
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