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Art by Arturo Garcia
This magazine is brought to you in conjunction with LucidPlay Publishing, where you can find e-chapbooks, and more, with Experimental Writing, which is a resource site with a massive number of links to presses, magazines, articles, etc, and with FlameFlower Experimental Story Contest, all run by author, and creative writing instructor, Tantra Bensko.
This originated as a page of Experimental Writing providing literature that exemplifies avant-garde innovation, bringing readers material found nowhere else, in the midst of all the links. It morphed into a magazine relatively quickly, and to keep the continuity, kept the description, Exclusive, boring as that is.
It exists as a place where writers who truly explore new ground, successfully accomplishing what they set out to do, who can explain their innovations well, may find a home for their work. It provides a method to show how many ways the default ways of perceiving can be replaced by something different. People curious about what Experimental Literature consists of, and what directions it can go in, why, and how, can learn insights from the authors' commentaries.
Now that it's into issue 4, it no longer seems as important to concentrate as much on new ways of experimenting, as to bring you good literature, as long as it has some innovation to it.
"The publisher/editor, Tantra Bensko, MFA, has had several books and chapbooks published of fiction, non fiction, and poetry, 180 creative writing publications in magazines, and a larger number of articles. Her most recent are Lucid Membrane (Night Publishing,) The Cabinet of What You Don't See (ISMs Press).
She instigated the genre Lucid Membrane, and guest edited the Lucid Membrane half of a Medulla Review Issue, and co-edited the Prosetry half. She teaches fiction writing, with an emphasis on Experimental Fiction, through UCLA Extension Writing Program, Writers College, and her own Academy. She is also an award winning artist/photographer (and created the cover of her book you see here.)"
It exists as a place where writers who truly explore new ground, successfully accomplishing what they set out to do, who can explain their innovations well, may find a home for their work. It provides a method to show how many ways the default ways of perceiving can be replaced by something different. People curious about what Experimental Literature consists of, and what directions it can go in, why, and how, can learn insights from the authors' commentaries.
Now that it's into issue 4, it no longer seems as important to concentrate as much on new ways of experimenting, as to bring you good literature, as long as it has some innovation to it.
"The publisher/editor, Tantra Bensko, MFA, has had several books and chapbooks published of fiction, non fiction, and poetry, 180 creative writing publications in magazines, and a larger number of articles. Her most recent are Lucid Membrane (Night Publishing,) The Cabinet of What You Don't See (ISMs Press).
She instigated the genre Lucid Membrane, and guest edited the Lucid Membrane half of a Medulla Review Issue, and co-edited the Prosetry half. She teaches fiction writing, with an emphasis on Experimental Fiction, through UCLA Extension Writing Program, Writers College, and her own Academy. She is also an award winning artist/photographer (and created the cover of her book you see here.)"