Terri Windling & Interfictions
Jul. 31st, 2009 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerI just made my (tax-deductible) contribution to Interfictions 2, the forthcoming original anthology from the IAF. They offered a space to make your donation "in honor of" or "in memory of," and I decided to make mine in honor of Terri Windling, for her great editorial & visionary contributions to interstitial fiction over the years - especially with her 16 years of co-editing THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY IN HORROR. In those collections, she constantly made bold choices that were not standard genre fare. She opened us all up to a wide range of styles and visions, international & sometimes radical: Kelly Link, Pagan Kennedy, Osamu Dasai, Rosario Ferré . . . .. She took a flack for it in some quarters, too. "This stuff isn't fantasy!" critics objected. It sure wasn't commercial genre fantasy. But it was fantastical, and fantastic. And an entire generation of writers grew up reading it, and being told that it was all right to stretch the boundaries of genre until it became something new.
When Terri & Delia & I first sat in our diningroom in Somerville, talking about the need to create an organization that encouraged such work, we didn't know it would become the IAF. When a bunch of us (including Dora Goss, Gavin Grant, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Patrick O'Connor et al) met at SUNY/New Paltz for our first "conference" on what the heck to do with our new foundation, we decided we should definitely publish an anthology. I suggested reprints of the most "interstitial" of 10+ years of YBF&H. But everyone thought it would be better to encourage writers - and pay them - to create new interstitial work.
Volume 1 appeared in 2007. Volume 2 comes out in November. If we can break even through sales & crowdfunding, we'll go for Volume 3!
Donations of $200+ will be guaranteed a space on the printed Donors Page in the actual book, if we receive them by tomorrow. (Don't be thrown by the text on the donations form saying it has to be $375; that just needs updating!) Donations of any size, at any time from now through November, will be listed on our online Thank You page, along with a link to your preferred website.
You can make your own contribution here. Dedicate it to someone who's made a difference to you.
When Terri & Delia & I first sat in our diningroom in Somerville, talking about the need to create an organization that encouraged such work, we didn't know it would become the IAF. When a bunch of us (including Dora Goss, Gavin Grant, Heinz Insu Fenkl, Patrick O'Connor et al) met at SUNY/New Paltz for our first "conference" on what the heck to do with our new foundation, we decided we should definitely publish an anthology. I suggested reprints of the most "interstitial" of 10+ years of YBF&H. But everyone thought it would be better to encourage writers - and pay them - to create new interstitial work.
Volume 1 appeared in 2007. Volume 2 comes out in November. If we can break even through sales & crowdfunding, we'll go for Volume 3!
Donations of $200+ will be guaranteed a space on the printed Donors Page in the actual book, if we receive them by tomorrow. (Don't be thrown by the text on the donations form saying it has to be $375; that just needs updating!) Donations of any size, at any time from now through November, will be listed on our online Thank You page, along with a link to your preferred website.
You can make your own contribution here. Dedicate it to someone who's made a difference to you.