Belighted Fiction

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 the spirit of delight and wonder rather than weighed down by convention. As Gerdes puts it in his foreword, "if you're looking for conventions, buy yourself a fez!"

What the issue assembles is fiction doing what its own description names as the core purposes of the form: to warn, to enlighten, to illuminate. The work is offered as prose that can rub elbows with the great and hold its own, in the line of Joyce, Stein, Woolf, Brautigan, Calvino, Sterne, Barthelme, Burroughs, Acker, Beckett, Patchen, and Ionesco.