Ithaca Irrealist Readings
The Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series at Liquid State Brewing began in May 2025 and has marched on from there. Join all loyal partisans of the IILF for monthly nights of good fiction, good beer, and good company!
24 June 2025, 7-9PM
Sam W. Pisciotta is an intrepid storyteller hurtling through spacetime on the power of morning coffee and late-night tea. Find his stories in Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed (forthcoming), and other fine publications.
Risa Wolf is a multi-gendered water elemental disguised as an ink-stained lycanthrope. (Don’t tell their spouse or dogs; the disguise is working.) They mostly publish speculative short stories in magazines like Clarkesworld.
M. Stevenson is the author of Behooved, a romantasy novel published by Bramble in May 2025. An avid swing dancer and amateur naturalist, she’s often found dancing Lindy Hop or wandering the woods talking to birds and plants.
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.