Listening to this week’s NPR On the Media segment with host Brooke Gladstone speaking with Occupy Wall Street representative (and former AIDS activist) Bill Dobbs made me think of the early days of the IAF.
When Brooke presses Dobbs to say what genuine action the Occupy Wall Street protests are achieving, he says that they’ve gotten [...]

(Eds. Note:  We’ve just received this bulletin from IAF Working Group member Ellen Denham, who is currently attending Indy Convergence, the annual 10-day “make-a-wish foundation for artists” in Indianapolis.  We knew from her interview last week with Indy Convergence founder Caitlin Swihart that it was a fabulous event for interstitial artists – but reading Ellen’s [...]

In a March 22nd blog post, we contemplated the interstitiality of Acroyoga….If you found that fascinating, and have always wanted to fly as much as I have, check out what Elizabeth Streb is up to these days with her Extreme Action Company: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gK-O95c5E8
The Company website is: www.streb.org
She’s launching her new book, How to Become [...]

The Polyphony series by Wheatland Press was “conceived as a short fiction venue for stories that would skate gracefully across the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, and literary fiction.” Since it first debuted in 2002, the series has featured spectacular genre-crossing fiction by over 100 talented, award-winning writers, including Interfictions authors Jeffrey Ford [...]

The IAF heartily welcomes the return of Mythic Passages: the Magazine of Imagination from the Mythic Imagination Institute. Its Winter 2009 issue, which has just been posted online at http://www.mythicjourneys.org, features not only a cover article on the phoenix in art and literature from the IAF’s own Wendy Ellertson but a glowing review of [...]

The IAF tries to keep an eye out for announcements of markets & venues that seem friendly to interstitial work. (See our Archive of Artists’ Resources for more – and feel free to write us with your hot tips at info [the at thing] interstitialarts [the dot thing] org.)
Editor Mike Allen is currently reading [...]

An online journal for the exploration of myth, folklore and fairie tales and their use in contemporary arts. Founded in 1987, the Endicott Studio supports and promotes the works of an interconnected group of mythic writers, artists, and scholars located across the United States, and in Canada and England. From the beginning, it has been [...]

Originally founded in 1923, Weird Tales was the first literary magazine devoted to the fiction of the fantastic – and right from the beginning, it defined that identity broadly, encompassing a diverse variety of storytelling that not only traversed but actually predated the strict genre rules that would later come to shape science fiction, fantasy, [...]

An independent publisher of unique voices. We’re lucky to have the great crew at Small Beer working with us as our partners on the Interfictions anthology.
“Small Beer is the hottest thing in publishing. It’s amazing. Like learning that Luxembourg has nuclear warheads.” – Rick Bowes

The Mythic Imagination Institute seeks to enliven the human spirit, raise personal and cultural consciousness, and increase cross-cultural tolerance by working to promote mythic literacy in the modern world. To that end, the institute reaches across disciplines and borders to bring together those who engage with myth in the fields of psychology, the arts, [...]

Night Shade Books is dedicated to publishing quality books from a broad spectrum of genres. Writing which inspires a sense of awe and wonder. Writing that explores the fantastic. Writing that at once challenges and redefines a reader’s expectations. These are the guiding editorial principals at Night Shade.

The mission of the Speculative Literature Foundation is “to promote literary quality in speculative fiction, by encouraging promising new writers, assisting established writers, facilitating the work of quality magazines and small presses in the genre, and developing a greater public appreciation of speculative fiction.”