Ithaca Irrealist Readings

The Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series is put on monthly by the IILF at [BAR TBA]. It currently exists in a superposition between the second Monday and third Tuesday of the month, but will snap into place once the details are finalized.

  • May 2025

    Jennifer Hudak

    • Nebula Award Finalist writer of speculative fiction

    Additional reader(s) TBA

The IILF

The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front is an underground movement of literary anarchists bound by a manifesto as secret as it is perverse. Its only public (and therefore lowest ranking) member is Will McMahon.

What is irrealism?

It isn’t real, but it can hurt you.

Irrealism describes an artistic position that does not privilege the typical human conception of reality.

Is this series for literary fiction or genre fiction?

“Literary” is an adjective describing a relation to literature—the written word. “Genre” is Old French for “gender” and can, eccentrically, refer to which shelf a book is set down on for sale. We insist that any such inquiries be translated, e.g. “What is the gender of this book?”

Those abusing these words will face the revolutionary justice of the IILF.