The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing

by Robert Archambeau (Editor), Davis Schneiderman (Editor), Steve Tomasula (Editor)

This inaugural volume of The &Now Awards recognizes the most provocative, hardest-hitting, deadly serious, patently absurd, cutting-edge, avant-everything-and-nothing work from the years 2004-09. The &NOW Awards features writing as a contemporary art writing as it is practiced today by authors who consciously treat their work as an art, and as a practice explicitly aware of its own literary and extra-literary history—as much about its form and materials, language, as it about its subject matter. The &NOW conference—moving from the University of Notre Dame (2004), Lake Forest College (2006), Chapman University (2008), and the University at Buffalo (2009)—sets the stage for this aesthetic, while The &Now Awards features work from the wider world of innovative publishing and serves as an ideal survey of the contemporary scene.

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Funtime Press · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seminal late-Aughts avant. Available to be borrowed as an ebook here.

[Kristina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read most of this for my advanced fiction class. Postmodernist/avant garde writing, so a lot of "out-of-the-box" or "out-of-the-norm" works here. I enjoyed some; others, not so much.