Luis Lopez-Maldonado My voice as a writer continues to bloom, even in dry grasses, because of my love for trying something new. I have always been fascinated with the weird and the abnormal. I have [...]
Zeeshan Amit Wall People “Wall People” was inspired by my childhood visits to one of my relatives. It involved having to creep though this very narrow passage way and passing through it I used to [...]
Experimental Discourse Featured Interview: An Academic Perspective Contributing Editor Warwick Newnham talks with Catherine Noske Catherine Noske is a lecturer in Creative Writing and editor of Westerly Magazine at the University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on contemporary [...]
Nelson Lowhim As a veteran, I've written a lot about the "that one time in Iraq". It started out with focusing on details of something that happened or didn't happen in that time. But that [...]
Kimberly Crafton This piece is the result of three shorter pieces who wanted to know what would happen if they were left alone to play together. They thought they had something to say to one [...]
Warwick Newnham Contributing Editor for Experimental Discourse O:JA&L Celebrates XPD: A Foreword "Ocean Energy #6" by Gene Kreyd Wikipedia defines experimental literature as: “Experimental literature refers to written work—usually fiction or poetry—that emphasizes innovation, most [...]
Kathleen McGuire Spiritus Mundi "Emulation in the Ghost Condition" by Mark Small My dog has cataracts in both eyes. Sometimes there is a green liquid floating in the nebula but today there [...]
Rachel Custer Poetry Editor, Reviewer, Editorialist Safe Spaces: A Pretty Lie "Orpheus" by Odilon Redon “Cruelty is easy, cheap, and rampant,” writes Brene Brown, and nobody who has taken part in almost [...]
Shawn Anto Approaching experimental writing, it requires a dash of redundancy and ambiguity rather than taking it from a formulaic approach. You write what you dare yourself not to write about. It’s indeterminant in a [...]
Pamelyn Casto A Close Reading of Octavio Paz’s “The Blue Bouquet” Read the story "The Blue Bouquet" by Octavio Paz. Or read it in Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories, edited by Irving [...]
