All posts in "experimental fiction"

Experimental Fiction Prompt 2

Experimental Fiction Prompt 2

Below is another exercise I gave my students in Experimental Fiction. -- Paired with reading "Pee on Water," by Rachel Glaser A story that takes as its subject the history of the universe leading up to humankind’s “pee on water” might evoke Genesis for some people....

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Experimental Fiction

Experimental Fiction

This semester I am teaching a workshop on "experimental fiction." "Experimental" is a term that gets thrown around a lot with very little meaning or with one specific meaning: outside of a Western psychological realist norm. If everyone were writing with the Western...

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AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN GILL

AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN GILL

Janola Sauther, an undergraduate student in the English program at the University of Central Missouri, interviews Sean Gill, winner of Pleiades' G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction for his story “The Statement of [Redacted], Revised,” which appears in the Summer...

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Winner of the Gail B. Crump Award in Experimental Fiction

Winner of the Gail B. Crump Award in Experimental Fiction

We are excited to announce the winner of the 2017 Gail B. Crump Award in Experimental Fiction. Jenny Drai's story, "A Brief History of One Bath," will be published in Pleiades 38.1, in Winter 2018. Jenny Drai is the author of several collections of poetry, most...

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