Friends! Writers! Wanderers! People who got here by mistake! I want your words for the new Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts.
Interfictions started as an anthology of interstitial fiction: the first one was edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, the second by Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak. The new, online Interfictions, launching in spring 2013, supported by the non-profit Interstitial Arts Foundation, will publish fiction, nonfiction and poetry. And of course, everything in between, because everything is actually in between! I am the editor for poetry and nonfiction; Christopher Barzak and Meghan McCarron are the fiction editors. The whole thing is going to be amazing and I am thrilled about it and you should go here to see the guidelines and submit when we open on February 1!
We'll be open Feb. 1-Feb. 28. So get ready and write that weird thing you were going to write except you were worried it wasn't a thing, and polish up the old things that everybody told you were not things, because we may very well think they are things, and want to publish them.
Update:
Pay rates: Fiction, 5 cents/word; Nonfiction, 3 cents/word; Poetry, $20/poem (flat rate)
I am really excited about this project. I hope I see some prose poems, and some prose/verse mixes. I hope I see some sort of raw essay-writing. You know, stuff that's as erudite as any academic essay, but takes risks an academic essay never could. Think Reza Negarestani's The Dust Enforcer. Think Anne Carson's The Glass Essay. Think weird, wonderful, important writing--ideas that should be Out There. Ideas that ARE Out There. Think in between.
13 comments:
Congratulations on the editorship! I checked the guidelines and didn't find the pay rate. Is that info somewhere else?
Thanks Pat! Updating here, and soon on Submittable as well.
Whoa. Cool. Yes!
I think so! I mean, there are all those creative people out there, just wandering around, leaving comments on blogs & stuff... some of them must have interesting work they can send us. ;)
What about pay rates for narrative verse? Can it be paid at the fiction rates if it comes out higher? (Not that it usually does, but I've done some seriously long verse.)
I'd want to see a query for a piece of super-long verse. The question of whether something balanced right on a genre line gets bought as fiction or poetry (or essay, for that matter) is an open one--something all three editors would need to decide together on a case-by-case basis. These decisions are part of the fun. Try us!
I'd like to query you on a piece of super-long verse. Is it OK to use the email address in your Blogger profile, or should I use the Submitable form without an upload?
Sure, go ahead and use the email address in my profile. Thanks!
Query sent a couple of days back but no response yet. Should I assume that the answer is no? Which would be fine ;)
Not at all! The answer is not no! The answer is "Swamped." Sorry, I usually send a yes-I-received-this response to emails. I did get your email, and hope to be in touch soon!
Oh, thanks, Sofia. Swamped is very understandable ;)
I missed this deadline--when will this be open to subs again? Or can I still submit?
We're closed to subs at the moment! But we should have another open submissions period this summer (not sure of the exact dates yet). I'll announce when we open again!
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