Experimental/surreal/absurd/bizarro/avant-garde/challenging
Tags: Abstract Thinking,absurd,art,avant-garde,bizarro,challenging,critique,experimental,Help,surreal,Writing

Anyone else write under one of these categories? I am looking for reviewers willing to suspend their ideas about form, character, plot, and the likes, to help me with some writing I've been doing. I offer critique for critique!

I would be more than happy to do critique for critique. I love Jodi Picoult and she wrote the book (haha) on writing outside the norm. Those are usually the best type of books. My email is kimbowman2008@yahoo.com - just send what you want reviewed and I will get back pretty quick. I'll send the chapter I'm working on as well. My book is out of the norm as well. Happy writing. Kim

i encourage either of you, or anyone else falling under these categories, to email me for a review exchange. a lot of writing on this site i find boring and uninteresting and yearn to see something new/interesting/controversial; i was intending to set up a blog like this myself, actually - ashbradford88@hotmail.com

kind regards

Great idea! I just created a blog for this purpose. Both of you and any others under this tag can send your writings to me at jmcafee09@yahoo.com (not as an attachment) and I'll post them on the site. It will be like our own critic circle. The site url is: http://experimentalfictionreview.blogspot.com/

hey, justin (that's my oldest son's name) - just sent a chapter to you - it is definitely not as "out of the norm" as yours but any chance to get feedback on my work and vice versa is a win win. I went to the blog and started reading your piece but my little one needed mama so I will get back to it later today. What I read was pretty interesting. Great concept. Is this the premise of a book?

I write a lot of gonzo poetry, I could upload volumes or just let you browse my blogspot, it's kindof cramped but you will find on random pages what I am talking about. Also have some interesting bizarro surreal short stories. http://jwes115.blogspot.com/

I looked through your poems. Send some you would like critiqued and also maybe a bizarro story or two.

I am starting a literary magazine dedicated to this type of writing. Feel free to submit at http://experimentalreview.submishmash.com/submit and possibly make the first issue.

I just posted an experimental piece. It's not real far out, but the main character is a house and it is told mainly by imagery. It's public. Called (strangely enough) The House.

Tell me what you think. BTW check out my poem THe Depths. It's a bit weird too