eclectic urge
eclectic urge
art and sculpture
by Tamara Bagnell
blood suckers
From the short story collection "What's Left Over: Stories Inspired By Discarded Things"flash fiction - 500 words
what's left over
From the short story collection "What's Left Over: Stories Inspired By Discarded Things"short fiction - 1500 words
Here's a small sampling of things I've written. If you want to get a sense of my overall genre and style I suggest reading my two shorts, "blood suckers" and "Wow! Savings", plus the first Chapter of my novella "Daydreams In The Land of The Magic Pill". Most of my longer fiction is speculative and takes place in a version of the future that includes "Daydreams...". I will be adding stories that I don't plan on sending out for submissions on a semi-regular basis.-------------------------If my writing appeals to you, subscribe to my Substack. It's free, and you'll get updates in your email when I post something new.
My 2022 novella serialized in nine parts (released bi-weekly)chapter length varies
pastpresentfuture
a personal essay about the nature of time and my habit of making "friends" with inanimate objects
WOW! Savings
From the short story collection "What's Left Over: Stories Inspired By Discarded Things"short fiction - 1100 words
seeing foxes
From the short story collection "What's Left Over: Stories Inspired By Discarded Things"flash fiction - 750 words
writing by Tamara Bagnell
A brief sampling of some of my experimental sound pieces with visuals attached. More to come...
Forks (2023)
digital sound collage -- live-recorded performance with tuning forks and no effectsHEADPHONES RECOMMENDED FOR BEST LISTENING EXPERIENCE
Last Girl's Diary (2003)
Instruments (best I can recall): Korg MS-20 analog synth, toy keyboard, bass drum, drum sticks, bass guitar, cassette tape case, hands, various toys and household objects. Recorded and edited via cassette 8-track and Garage Band.HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED FOR BEST LISTENING EXPERIENCE-----------------------NOTES:I created this experimental sound piece sometime way back in 2003. It was inspired by my own childhood imaginings while playing in the woods, or on isolated banks of rivers, anyplace where signs of life were thin. I loved to pretend I was one of the last people on earth, suddenly on my own and figuring out how to survive. At age 25, when I was messing around with the series of short musical sketches that would become Last Girl’s Diary, I had just moved from the “big city” to a quasi-rural (in comparison) rental outside a college town. The nights there were darker than I’d ever known, and I’d often catch glimpses of wild turkeys or the old lady from next door passive-aggressively mowing my section of our communal lawn out my back window. Young, unmoored, and socially isolated, suddenly 600 miles from everything I had ever known, life was forcing me into shapes I wasn’t entirely comfortable with. This was the mental landscape from which Last Girl’s Diary was born.
sound and video by Tamara Bagnell
zines
A gallery of my comics and zines. Will be adding more soon. Click on the cover to read.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
OVERTHINKERS ANONYMOUSOverthinkers is a zine is about anxiety, obsession, invasive thoughts, hyper-focus, overactive imaginations, brain-loops and silly fixations. While these behaviors are often central to the creative process, they can run the gamut; from harmless and quirky to dark and problematic.If you have something you want to submit, email it to me using the link below. Your submissions do not have to be anonymous (unless you want them to be). Rather, the idea is to put stuff out there that feels slightly uncomfortable to admit.For example:- things you think way too hard about
- something you worked way too long on
- a project you just can’t seem to finish
- an idea / object / etc. that you obsess over
- anything you think fits the theme of overthinkingIf accepted you will maintain all rights to your work. It does not have to be it's first publication.
VIVID BEASTSa zine about real and imaginary "beasts" of all kinds---good, bad, bright, colorful, exaggerated, distorted, hyperactive, out of controlsubmit your wildest and most fantastically weird creeps and creatures using the link below. Any zine appropriate format welcome: drawings, comics, photography, poetry, flash fiction, etc.If accepted you will maintain all rights to your work. It does not have to be it's first publication.
Tamara Galiano Bagnell is an writer and multidisciplinary artist living in Durham, NC.
All text, images, and artwork on this website are copyright Tamara Bagnell, 2024, unless otherwise noted. Please do not reproduce any of the content on this website without permission.