If your work exemplifies Experimental Writing, or Comments on it
Submission Guidelines
For the Elemental Mirror Issue
(Please note, this is an old issue. Submissions are no longer taken for Exclusive Magazine.)
From the editor:
Do you want to showcase what you're doing as an example of Experimental Writing? And, if you don't like that name, Non-Traditional, or Progressive Literature applies just as well. Innovative, or Avant-Garde. All one thing, as far as I'm concerned.
First, take a look at Issue 1: Untamable Worlds
and this issue, as it's almost filled up, spilling over toward April 1, when the next issue begins.
Submissions are open for publication on this website for articles or casual posts about Experimental Writing:
If you are an editor, or publisher, or have an blog on the topic, feel free to send me anything about what you do, updates, theory, criticism, invitations and discussion topics, teasers, personal commentary.
If you are a reader and would like to submit reviews of pieces in magazines, or magazines themselves, or of books, send them along.
Submissions are open for publication of creative works, in any genre, including unclassifiable, and hybrids: This issue favors New Wave Fabulism that is very experimental. New Wave Fabulism generally has elements of the fantastic, surreal, bizarre, irreal. It is also very literary, unlike genre fantasy. And it can be experimental, an aspect necessary to be published here.
This magazine nominates for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web.
If you are a writer of Experimental Fiction or Poetry, and would like to submit unpublished work along with an analysis of its innovations, please do. Just make sure you will be able to write the commentary if you send the creative work alone. Creative pieces without at least a few paragraphs of commentary on their unique techniques are not accepted. This magazine is different that way. But you may submit the create work now, and on acceptance, send commentary if you desire. You are free to send multiple pieces to me of any length.
You are free to republish later in printanthologies or your own print chapbook or book, with credit to Exclusive, after 6 months, but I don't accept anything that has been published anywhere at all, and whatever is published here should not be published again in a magazine, or anywhere online. That's what makes it Exclusive. You'll find very few magazines that take previously published material anyway.
I'm a proponent of the genre I label Lucid Fiction, and I have found some writers very excited to produce that style. There are articles linked here about it in the section About Experimental Writing. If you feel yours fits that, please label it so. It's easy to be both New Wave Fabulism and also Lucid Fiction.
I love meta-narratives, mystical prose, anti-stories, absurdism, references to things the mass media hides, sophisticated concepts, quantum fiction, uniquely surprising voices that are passionately beautiful.
If you have something coming out or recently out, whether in a magazine or in book form, and would like to do an auto-review on it, as if you were someone else reviewing it, that would be great. Just send a link to the published work or where we can buy the book. Reviews of other authors' experimental work no matter how new or ancient, are welcome.
This website is a resource for many people to understand and delve deeply into Experimental Writing, and your work can be used as an example of what it is, what's hot in the avant-garde literary world, and who you are. Include links to your sites or publications if you like.
To submit, write to me, the editor, Tantra Bensko, at [email protected] with the subject line EW submission. Include your submission in an attached document. Poetry should be centered on the page. Photos, illustrations, diagrams that accompany your pieces instead of or in addition to pictures of yourself are welcome. Text that is written within visuals, whether fully legible or not, is fine. (The other art in the magazine however, is mine.) Once accepted, I will need a photo of you, a photo of a book or a bunch of your books you've published if you like in addition, and your bio also in an attached document, and website if you have one; you may include those in the original submission or wait until acceptance. You may write the commentary on the experimentation to send with your submission, or wait until acceptance, but in any case, send in an attached document. Please put spaces between all your paragraphs, no indentations. (Poetry, of course, is a different matter, but my preference is not to have long blocks of text.)
Most submissions coming in now will go towards Issue Two, and your work will be put up as it comes in. As with any magazine, only some of the submissions are accepted. Some of them are solicited. Response time is very fast. Publication upon acceptance is also very fast. At this point, some submissions may be reserved for Issue Three, or divided up between the two.
About the editor
To see my own writing, see Lucid Fiction. (Which, due to the focus on this magazine, I rarely update any more.) I put up notations of some of my publications on the blog on the Experimental Writing site, as well, which tells more about me. And you may want to order a copy of Watching the Windows Sleep from Naissance Press or the tiny Swinging on the Edge of Day. I teach Experimental Fiction Writing online, in groups and one one one, with a class coming up in the Summer through UCLA Extension Writing Program. I run the FlameFlower Experimental Fiction Contest, and the resource website, Experimental Writing. I have over 150 creative writing publications in magazines, and have won various prizes and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Rose and Thorn Magazine. My full length fiction book has been accepted for publication next spring by Night Publishing.
I am also an a multiple award winning artist, with a large number of shows Internationally, and countless publications in magazines. I have worked with some magazines on staff, such as being the Art Director for Mad Hatters Review, and the artist for MKzine. I have a book which combines my art and text called Tantric Metaportals. i am a core member of The Ruby Fire Household Orchestra, and made numerous videos. I currently live in Berkeley, California.
(Please note, this is an old issue. Submissions are no longer taken for Exclusive Magazine.)
From the editor:
Do you want to showcase what you're doing as an example of Experimental Writing? And, if you don't like that name, Non-Traditional, or Progressive Literature applies just as well. Innovative, or Avant-Garde. All one thing, as far as I'm concerned.
First, take a look at Issue 1: Untamable Worlds
and this issue, as it's almost filled up, spilling over toward April 1, when the next issue begins.
Submissions are open for publication on this website for articles or casual posts about Experimental Writing:
If you are an editor, or publisher, or have an blog on the topic, feel free to send me anything about what you do, updates, theory, criticism, invitations and discussion topics, teasers, personal commentary.
If you are a reader and would like to submit reviews of pieces in magazines, or magazines themselves, or of books, send them along.
Submissions are open for publication of creative works, in any genre, including unclassifiable, and hybrids: This issue favors New Wave Fabulism that is very experimental. New Wave Fabulism generally has elements of the fantastic, surreal, bizarre, irreal. It is also very literary, unlike genre fantasy. And it can be experimental, an aspect necessary to be published here.
This magazine nominates for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Web.
If you are a writer of Experimental Fiction or Poetry, and would like to submit unpublished work along with an analysis of its innovations, please do. Just make sure you will be able to write the commentary if you send the creative work alone. Creative pieces without at least a few paragraphs of commentary on their unique techniques are not accepted. This magazine is different that way. But you may submit the create work now, and on acceptance, send commentary if you desire. You are free to send multiple pieces to me of any length.
You are free to republish later in printanthologies or your own print chapbook or book, with credit to Exclusive, after 6 months, but I don't accept anything that has been published anywhere at all, and whatever is published here should not be published again in a magazine, or anywhere online. That's what makes it Exclusive. You'll find very few magazines that take previously published material anyway.
I'm a proponent of the genre I label Lucid Fiction, and I have found some writers very excited to produce that style. There are articles linked here about it in the section About Experimental Writing. If you feel yours fits that, please label it so. It's easy to be both New Wave Fabulism and also Lucid Fiction.
I love meta-narratives, mystical prose, anti-stories, absurdism, references to things the mass media hides, sophisticated concepts, quantum fiction, uniquely surprising voices that are passionately beautiful.
If you have something coming out or recently out, whether in a magazine or in book form, and would like to do an auto-review on it, as if you were someone else reviewing it, that would be great. Just send a link to the published work or where we can buy the book. Reviews of other authors' experimental work no matter how new or ancient, are welcome.
This website is a resource for many people to understand and delve deeply into Experimental Writing, and your work can be used as an example of what it is, what's hot in the avant-garde literary world, and who you are. Include links to your sites or publications if you like.
To submit, write to me, the editor, Tantra Bensko, at [email protected] with the subject line EW submission. Include your submission in an attached document. Poetry should be centered on the page. Photos, illustrations, diagrams that accompany your pieces instead of or in addition to pictures of yourself are welcome. Text that is written within visuals, whether fully legible or not, is fine. (The other art in the magazine however, is mine.) Once accepted, I will need a photo of you, a photo of a book or a bunch of your books you've published if you like in addition, and your bio also in an attached document, and website if you have one; you may include those in the original submission or wait until acceptance. You may write the commentary on the experimentation to send with your submission, or wait until acceptance, but in any case, send in an attached document. Please put spaces between all your paragraphs, no indentations. (Poetry, of course, is a different matter, but my preference is not to have long blocks of text.)
Most submissions coming in now will go towards Issue Two, and your work will be put up as it comes in. As with any magazine, only some of the submissions are accepted. Some of them are solicited. Response time is very fast. Publication upon acceptance is also very fast. At this point, some submissions may be reserved for Issue Three, or divided up between the two.
About the editor
To see my own writing, see Lucid Fiction. (Which, due to the focus on this magazine, I rarely update any more.) I put up notations of some of my publications on the blog on the Experimental Writing site, as well, which tells more about me. And you may want to order a copy of Watching the Windows Sleep from Naissance Press or the tiny Swinging on the Edge of Day. I teach Experimental Fiction Writing online, in groups and one one one, with a class coming up in the Summer through UCLA Extension Writing Program. I run the FlameFlower Experimental Fiction Contest, and the resource website, Experimental Writing. I have over 150 creative writing publications in magazines, and have won various prizes and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Rose and Thorn Magazine. My full length fiction book has been accepted for publication next spring by Night Publishing.
I am also an a multiple award winning artist, with a large number of shows Internationally, and countless publications in magazines. I have worked with some magazines on staff, such as being the Art Director for Mad Hatters Review, and the artist for MKzine. I have a book which combines my art and text called Tantric Metaportals. i am a core member of The Ruby Fire Household Orchestra, and made numerous videos. I currently live in Berkeley, California.