The &NOW AWARDS: The Best Innovative Writing 2, the second installment of the biennial anthology of the “best” innovative writing, is seeking nominations. The anthology will be released in 2013, with subsequent editions published every other year.
The first collection’s lineup follows, with bonus content linked to a selection of authors.
Steve Tomasula · And Now &NOW: A Forward
Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky · The Future is Here
Matias Viegener · 25 Random Things About Me Too, 60-65
Peter O’Leary · {O. Eu. H.}
Yuriy Tarnawsky · about the mininovel / Screaming (a mininovel)
Blake Butler · Insomnia Door
Stephanie Strickland · From Huracan’s Harp
Megan Milks · Slug
Gina Frangello · Slaves of Bataille
Lily Hoang · Women & Desire—V
Hilton Obenzinger · From A*hole
John Matthias · From “Laundry Lists and Manifestoes”
Joe Francis Doerr · Tocayo
Matt Kirkpatrick · Facts
Bradley Sands · In the Restaurant
Natalija Grgorinic & Ognjen Raden · One, Two, Threeselves / Crows Don’t Care
Christina Milletti · Where Nööne is Now
Carla Harryman · the opposite of slackness / Orgasms
William Gillespie · The Story that Teaches You How to Write It
Joe Amato · Tango
Raymond Federman · From Return to Manure
Stephen Collis · The Frostworks
Doug Rice · A Poetics of Reflection and Desire
Michael DuPlessis · The Carpet Out of Time
Lidia Yuknavtich · The Photographer
The New Anonymous · Comments / An Interview with Someone
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Cris Mazza · Trickle-Down Timeline
Amina Cain · Black Wings
Dimitri Anastasopoulos · Signs of Intrauterine Life
William Walsh · American Fried Questions
Michael Joyce & Alexandra Grant · About Alexandra Grant’s work… / Nimbus
William Fuller · Dives & Lazarus
Angela Szczepaniak · AlphabeTics
Christine Wertheim · From +|’me’S-pace
Mark Spitzer · From Age of the Demon Tools
Kane X. Faucher · Lysicology: An Introduction / From [+!]
Matina Stamatakis · From [+!] —Kleptokinetisis
John Moore Williams · From [+!] —Tetatetagrammatron
Andrea Kneeland · Continuity as an Axiomatic Resultant of a Clearly Defined Fragmentation of Lines
Judith Goldman · From “FatBoy / DeathStar / rico-chet”
Rachel Loden · The USNS Comfort Sails to the Gulf
Catherine Daly · Maquis / Malice, Irma la Douce / Marguerite Monnot & Marguerite Monnot / Irma la Douce
Dave Kress · The Law
Ted Pelton · Woodchuck and Hank Williams Zombie
Robin Becker · How I Ate My Wife
Averill Curdy · Probation
Stephen-Paul Martin · Food
Christopher Grimes · The Public Sentence
C.S Giscombe · From Prairie Style: 1304 North Central Avenue / Prairie Style / A Cornet at Night
Paul A. Toth · The Kind of Girl You Read About in New Wave Magazines
Bradford Gray Telford · Kate Moss Queries Her Counselor on the Nature of Love
Gabriel Gudding · Fifteen Minute Performative Masculinity New York School Name Dropping Poem For David Shapiro as Transcribed from his Interview at Pennsound
Harold Jaffe · White Terror
Debra Di Blasi · The Incomplete But Real History of The Jirí Chronicles Illustrated by The Real Jirí CeCh™ / Products
Kim Chinquee · Now the Room is Empty
Jenny Hanning · Planting
Aaron Burch · You Are Here
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet · Left-Handed Universe: Variations
Mary Gilliland · Quarantine in the Borders
Teresa Carmody · From Eye Hole Adore
Kirsten Jorgenson · Thread
Shelley Jackson · From The Interstitial Library Workbook (Teacher’s Edition)
Kerri Sonnenberg · From deact
Wendy Walker · Introduction to Blue Fire / From Blue Fire
Matthew Roberson · Possible Side Effects
Steve Katz · Manifesto Dysfic
Todd Zuniga · Confessions of an American Opium Merchant
Giancarlo DiTrapano · Benediction
Asha Khaladkar · Metro
Jay Wexler · E=MC³
Carol Novack · In The Beginning Is
Adam Fieled · Apparition Poems
Joshua Corey · On Jessica Savitz and Hunting is Painting
Davis Schneiderman · On Gretchen E. Henderson and Galerie de Difformité
Gretchen E. Henderson · From Galerie de Difformité
Davis Schneiderman · crowdsourcing: an afterword
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Data is just a story told on a spreadsheet, she explained to my mother over the phone, you just have to learn how to tell the facts right, learn how to read them. 
- Christina Milletti, ‘Where Nööne is Now’