Literary offerings of Tantra Bensko

Read Chris Moran's review of Tantra's books at HTML GIANT
Interview at Women's Quarterly Conversation
Christopher Higgs interview on Experimental Writing at HTML GIANT
Yuriy Tarnawsky's review at The Collagist


Forthcoming:
stories in an ebook edited by Rhys Hughes for Sein und Werden, story in Stone Highway Review
story in Dreadful Daughters: Women Writing the Weird edited by Deb Hoag from Dog Horn Books
story in Sundress Publications' anthology Not Somewhere Else But Here: A
Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place, stories in anthology Looking Back
stories in Camroc Review, and And/Or, story in Mad Hatters Review Annual, story in Imperial Youth Review
story in Literary Orphans, story in Birkensnake
a collection, Yard Man, from Make-Do Publishing
a novel, Unside, from Dog Horn Publishing

Contact by email

By joining the mailing list, you won't be getting a lot of emails to clog up your inbox. Just a few  announcements of import, particularly announcements of book availability.

Study Writing or Receive Editing

Read Tantra's articles, interviews, etc. on the writing throughout the site, and find more information about the classes, coaching, and editing, as well as links to writing suggestions and resources HERE.

Explore the Genre of Experimental Fiction

You can learn about it, enjoy it, puzzle over it, find places to submit, with extensive links to publishers, magazines, grants, contests, articles, and a magazine that explains it with examples. You can also read Tantra's reviews, articles, interviews, etc. on the topic of Innovative Writing, particularly Lucid Fiction, HERE.

                         Read and submit to LucidPlay Publishing e-chapbooks

HERE.

News Flash: Used Lucid Membranes are going for 71, 77, and 88 dollars on Amazon.

Buy Tantra's Books

Buy Full Length Books

Buy print directly:

Collapsible Horizon New literary fiction interwoven short stories 12 dollars plus shipping.

To buy Lucid Membrane directly, Paypal or checks are accepted. Email. For Lucid Membrane, buying directly is preferred. 28 plus shipping for color, and 10 plus shipping for black and white interior.

To buy from Amazon:

Lucid Membrane black and white print.
Lucid Membrane black and white e-book
Lucid Membrane print, full color inside to include 3 extra stories made of words colored in the text

Buy Chapbooks:

The Cabinet of What You Don't See 5 dollars to ISMs Press
Watching the Windows Sleep 10 including shipping
Swinging on the Edge of Day from the tiny chapbook series at Naissance Press 5.00 including shipping


Buy Print Anthologies

Surreal South
Women Writing the Weird
Writing Without Walls, Subterranea
and Naked
North of Wakulla

Buy Some Print Magazines:
Cosmopsis
Fabulist
Fiction International
Alchemy Review

Some of the books and anthologies can be found here:

"The analysis revealed objects, shaped like Frisbees or flying carpets, with two spatial dimensions: membranes . . . . The mathematics made clear that all of these entities could vibrate and wiggle, much like strings. . . . For the multiverse story, it is the branes that are central. Using them, researchers have been led by the hand to another variety of parallel universes. . . . In the braneworld scenario, our universe is just one of many that populate the Brane Universe."

                             Brian Green The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos

Buying books is very appreciated by the author and publishers. Please do, and if you do, please consider hugging a tree in thanks.

FlameFlower Innovative Flash Fiction Contest coming up June 1 - Sept. 1
New! Chapbook Anthology published by LucidPlay
(John Olson, Bill Yarrow, Rhys Hughes, and others)

                                             Books and stories for Free


                                                        Books

To read a free e-chapbook of poetry: Liminal, by 10 Pages Press.

Richard Hugo's Use of Sound in Relation to Content in his Poetry A 150 page book of interest to Hugo fans and anyone wanting to learn more about how to make sound amplify meaning in prose or poetry. It is an MA thesis that because of being scanned from typewritten text couldn't be revised.


                                Some Stories and Poems in online Magazines

Here is a smattering of pieces in magazines.

"Frogs" Sein und Werden
"PhotoluminAssence" Poor Mojo's Almanac
"Embed" A-Minor
"Among the Nalatari" Red Fez
"Word Box" Metazen
"4 Chapters" Camroc Review
"Space Bar" The Writing Disorder
"Bringing a New Poet into your Home" Gone Lawn
"Joined at the Nose" Samizdat
"Quantum Fool" Cezanne's Carrot
"Mama" In Between Altered States
"A Roadfull of Ducks" Fabulist
3 in Evergreen
Poems Other Voices
!Drum! Unlikely Stories
"Abandoned House" North of Wakulla
"Modelling for Advanced Drawing" Mad Hatters Review
"A Roadfull of Ducks" The Fabulist
"The Terrace Steps" Cezanne's Carrot
"The Boy Who's a Floating Flower" Cezanne's Carrot
"Our Travels on Fire" Bewildering Stories
"Can You Tell Them I'm With Them?" Medulla Review
"Daring with Monks" Bewildering Stories
"Sleeping with the Clan of Saints" Unlikely Stories 2.0

                                        Some Novellettes in magazines:

The Inhabitants of Mercy in Retort Magazine
Animals Under the Skin 1 in Bewildering Stories
part 2
part 3

Some of these magazines listed above published other flash fiction, short stories, novellettes, and poems too. Much thanks to all the magazines and anthologies that published other stories and poems, including, but not limited to these: Anenome Sidecar, 13 Myna Birds, Carolina Quarterly, Hawaii Review, Egophobia (with translation into Romanian) Mississippi Review, Sun Dog, New Dead Families, Abraxis, California Review, Iowa Review of Literary Studies, Southern Poetry Review, Memphis State Review, Logascene, Colorado Review, Chatahoochie Review, Pheonix, Babel, Cinncinati Poetry Review, Lucky Star, Appalachia Quarterly, Florida Review, Colorado State Review, Piedmont Literary Review, Louisville Review, Soma Literary Review, Magaera, Rose and Thorn, Muse Thing: Colliope Nerve, Newtopia, Ten Thousand Monkeys, Mannequin Envy, Rattlesnake Review, Babel, Evergreen, Lit Chaos, Apallachee Quarterly, Spilt Milk, Net Author E2K, Thundersandwich, Dark Romance, Southern Hum, Quantum Genre on the Planet of the Arts anthology, Emerging Visions, Global Inner Visions, The Angler, Microw, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Fiction International, Bewildering Stories, Punken, Short Fast and Deadly, Weird Stories, Orion Headless, REM, Dante's Heart, Evergreen Review, Florida Review, Colorado Review.


                                                      Audio

Listen to stories at Dog Cast, curated by Dave Migman, of Dog Horn. Here's # 19. Many others.
"Accidental Voyeur" was in Mad Hatters Review
"Meditation on the Breath" The Change
"Alligator" e-Buffet
"Really" Egophobia
"PhotoluminAssance" Poor Mojo

Video of Recent Readings

Reading Fall Every Way We Can at Writing Without Walls Berkeley
Drum Naked Writing Without Walls Berkeley
Red Story Come on 7 Chicago
God Poem @Now San Diego
Reading at Bernal Literary Series

Readings

Have been taking place recently at Bernal Yoga Literary Series, S.F.,  Book Zoo, with Janice Lee and Anna Joy Springer, Writing Without Walls (Subterranean Art House in Berkeley and Oakland Public Conservatory of Music), at &Now Festival of New Writing: Tomorrowland Forever, in San Diego, at University Press Books in Berkeley, in Tijuana at Pasaje Rodríguez, and at the Ballroom of the Chicago Institute of Art in Chicago with Lance Olson, Eckard Gerdes, A.D. Jameson, Yuriy Tarnawsky, James R. Hugunin, and Davis Schneiderman.

                         Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."
                                   — F. Scott Fitzgerald ("Tender Is the Night")