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RESOURCES
Experimental writing is far from being a cloistered, inward-looking, or autonomous practice. It reaches across the intersections between literature and many other disciplines such as history, philosophy, cultural studies, and the other arts. Our book ventures incursions into these territories at times; the resources below may function as useful background material for readers unfamiliar with these topics. We also offer readers easy access to sites that have curated and compiled online anthologies of experimental literature, supplementing our own anthologies both in print and online here. Some of these online omnibus sites may also provide alternative models of taxonomy and emphasis, cutting up the field of experimental writing differently than our structure, offering countervailing narratives to the ones we told about a subject, or allowing readers a deeper dive into a particular subgenre or movement. We have included a few foundational texts as well as offbeat and provocative accounts that help reorient the nature of experimentation. Finally, a handful of teaching resources are assembled to aid teachers in planning and implementing their classes.
Links
● Janelle Adsit, Critical Creative Writing resource page
● Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
● M. H. Abrahms, A Glossary of Literary Terms, Seventh Edition
● UbuWeb
● Conceptualisms, (ed.) Steve Tomasula, Anthology of Works Online
● Electronic Literature Collection
● Everything Experimental Writing
● Andrew Wille, Writing Experiments (prompts)
● Best American Experimental Writing (BAX) homepage, Wesleyan University Press
● Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
● Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (2009)
● Eric Bennet, excerpt from Workshops of Empire (2015)
● Matthew Salesses, “25 Essential Notes on Craft”
● Personal website of Felicia Rose Chavez, author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom (2021)
● Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons
