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ellenkushnerDear LJ Friends:
When is the last time anyone invited you to sponsor an actual book?
I’m asking you to sponsor not just a book, but an idea, too – the idea that artists need to be able to express themselves freely and directly to their audiences, without the restraint of conventional genre limitations. We live in a world of niche marketing, where many forces, financial and cultural, conspire to keep artists locked into tiny, cramped spaces. The Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF), a non-profit group dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of art that crosses borders, works to break down the many barriers that force artists into categories and genres. I feel strongly enough about all this to be currently serving as President of the Executive Board of the IAF, and organization Delia & I helped to found. We are about to publish Interfictions 2: a New Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited by Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak (November, 2009, in collaboration with Small Beer Press), the second anthology of original work by writers who joyfully seize the opportunity to explore the big imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political.
Our first volume, Interfictions, appeared in 2007 and was greeted with praise and excitement: “A wildly varied cacophony of a book, by turns beautiful, funny, frightening, frustrating, and baffling, but never boring.” — New Haven Review “Odd, Deep, Delightful… [Interfictions] belongs on the nightstand of anyone interested in the development of contemporary short fiction. I hope it spawns a series of such volumes.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Interfictions 2 contains 21 new stories, competitively chosen from over 450 strong submissions from around the world. Contributors include award-winning writers Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, and M. Rickert, as well as exciting new voices. Unlike many small presses, who are able to pay only in copies of a book or magazine, we feel strongly about paying our authors professional rates for their unusual work. Like most adventurous new work – whether it’s music or theater or dance – Interfictions 2 costs more to produce than we can recoup from book sales alone.
This year, we’ll be offering something new. In addition to the printed anthology, in the two months prior to publication we’ll be publishing the Interfictions 2 Annex online as a series of free interstitial stories to introduce new readers to a new kind of literature.
To do all this, we need your support. The IAF is a nonprofit 501© 3 organization, so your contribution will be fully tax-deductible. But more important than a tax deduction, when you make a gift to the IAF, you can bask in the knowledge that you are helping to build a new work of literature that can change people’s lives.
Here are some ways you can help us publish Interfictions 2:
$25 – send out five review copies
$50 – pay one author for an Annex story (The Annex will feature 8 stories available only online, with one appearing every week from September to November 2009.)
$100 – help us print promotional postcards
$200 – buy Interfictions 2 a magazine ad
$250 – send Interfictions 2 to a conference
$375 pays one author for a 7,500 word short story
$400 covers typesetting fees
$500 pays the artist’s honorarium for use of his painting on our cover by Alex Myers
Become an Interfictions 2 "Sponsor" with a gift of $500 or more - or a "Booklover" with a gift of $375-499 - by July 31, 2009, and we will print your name on the Sponsors Page of Interfictions 2. (Contributions sent after that time are not guaranteed a place in the printed book - though we’ll do our best - but will be credited on the "Friends of Interfictions 2" page of the IAF website.) Sponsors also receive signed copies of the books. Individual supporter names will not be linked to specific stories or work.
Contributions of any size are most welcome. And if you know anyone else you think might like to be involved, please feel free to pass this along to them!
Thanks for being the sort of people I feel I can turn to for help with a project like this! I know many of you are already working on cool stuff for the Interfictions Auction, too. Whatever and however you contribute, many thanks for helping us to keep the borders open!
Warmly,
Ellen
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Ellen Kushner, President
Executive Board
Interstitial Arts Foundation
When is the last time anyone invited you to sponsor an actual book?
I’m asking you to sponsor not just a book, but an idea, too – the idea that artists need to be able to express themselves freely and directly to their audiences, without the restraint of conventional genre limitations. We live in a world of niche marketing, where many forces, financial and cultural, conspire to keep artists locked into tiny, cramped spaces. The Interstitial Arts Foundation (IAF), a non-profit group dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of art that crosses borders, works to break down the many barriers that force artists into categories and genres. I feel strongly enough about all this to be currently serving as President of the Executive Board of the IAF, and organization Delia & I helped to found. We are about to publish Interfictions 2: a New Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited by Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak (November, 2009, in collaboration with Small Beer Press), the second anthology of original work by writers who joyfully seize the opportunity to explore the big imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political.
Our first volume, Interfictions, appeared in 2007 and was greeted with praise and excitement: “A wildly varied cacophony of a book, by turns beautiful, funny, frightening, frustrating, and baffling, but never boring.” — New Haven Review “Odd, Deep, Delightful… [Interfictions] belongs on the nightstand of anyone interested in the development of contemporary short fiction. I hope it spawns a series of such volumes.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Interfictions 2 contains 21 new stories, competitively chosen from over 450 strong submissions from around the world. Contributors include award-winning writers Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, and M. Rickert, as well as exciting new voices. Unlike many small presses, who are able to pay only in copies of a book or magazine, we feel strongly about paying our authors professional rates for their unusual work. Like most adventurous new work – whether it’s music or theater or dance – Interfictions 2 costs more to produce than we can recoup from book sales alone.
This year, we’ll be offering something new. In addition to the printed anthology, in the two months prior to publication we’ll be publishing the Interfictions 2 Annex online as a series of free interstitial stories to introduce new readers to a new kind of literature.
To do all this, we need your support. The IAF is a nonprofit 501© 3 organization, so your contribution will be fully tax-deductible. But more important than a tax deduction, when you make a gift to the IAF, you can bask in the knowledge that you are helping to build a new work of literature that can change people’s lives.
Here are some ways you can help us publish Interfictions 2:
$25 – send out five review copies
$50 – pay one author for an Annex story (The Annex will feature 8 stories available only online, with one appearing every week from September to November 2009.)
$100 – help us print promotional postcards
$200 – buy Interfictions 2 a magazine ad
$250 – send Interfictions 2 to a conference
$375 pays one author for a 7,500 word short story
$400 covers typesetting fees
$500 pays the artist’s honorarium for use of his painting on our cover by Alex Myers
Become an Interfictions 2 "Sponsor" with a gift of $500 or more - or a "Booklover" with a gift of $375-499 - by July 31, 2009, and we will print your name on the Sponsors Page of Interfictions 2. (Contributions sent after that time are not guaranteed a place in the printed book - though we’ll do our best - but will be credited on the "Friends of Interfictions 2" page of the IAF website.) Sponsors also receive signed copies of the books. Individual supporter names will not be linked to specific stories or work.
Contributions of any size are most welcome. And if you know anyone else you think might like to be involved, please feel free to pass this along to them!
Thanks for being the sort of people I feel I can turn to for help with a project like this! I know many of you are already working on cool stuff for the Interfictions Auction, too. Whatever and however you contribute, many thanks for helping us to keep the borders open!
Warmly,
Ellen
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Ellen Kushner, President
Executive Board
Interstitial Arts Foundation
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