Fan fiction, the fair-use recasting of familiar characters from popular culture and the world of literature in new fictional adventures, has gained avid readership and some attention from mainstream media thanks to small-circulation print 'zines and web-based publications devoted to original works of fiction.
I am soliciting literary fiction that employs well-known characters, plots, and settings from literature, film, television, comics, video gaming, and other pop-culture sources to tell new and engaging stories.
Submit an innovatively structured story with a borrowed premise that examines storytelling modes or deconstructs familiar beloved/reviled characters. Submit a vividly written story that features chracters originally introduced by another author. Submit a story that explores the poltics of class and gender through repurposed characters and settings. Submit an interview with a author who has dabbled in fan fiction. Submit a critical essay on a fan fiction novel or play.
About Me
- William Walsh
- My short stories and derived texts have appeared in New York Tyrant, Juked, Caketrain, LIT, Annalemma, Artifice, No Colony, Rosebud, Crescent Review, Quarterly West, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and other journals. My first book, Without Wax: A Documentary Novel, was published in 2008 by Casperian Books. Questionstruck came out in 2009 from Keyhole Press. Pathologies is also available from Keyhole and so is a story collection called Ampersand, Mass. And due out February 2, 2012: Unknown Arts.