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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front
@irrealist.bsky.social
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At war with reality. Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series and other revolutionary activities. https://irrealist.org
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Edward Ashton @edashtonwriting.bsky.social · 4d
Just a reminder that I'll be at Lock City Books in Lockport today (10/4) from 11 - 2. If you're in the area, please stop by and say hello!
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D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social · 14d
Reread as text Don Pizarro's @donfoolery.com stories that he read in person at Ithaca Irrealist Readings. @irrealist.bsky.social Really enjoyed the escalation and competition in “Show and Tell”—as well as the Filipino cultural backdrop that comes to life: anting anting, religion and family.
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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 15d
You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 16d
Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!
Don Pizarro and Parker M. O’Neill standing on stage under purple lighting with their fists up.
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DonP @donfoolery.com · 16d
Isang bagsak! Thanks for having me @irrealist.bsky.social. It was a blast reading with @parkeriswriting.bsky.social!

(There... if I wasn't on a watchlist before being Brown while working for an Ivy and living in a Sanctuary City, I sure am now!)
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 16d
Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!
Don Pizarro and Parker M. O’Neill standing on stage under purple lighting with their fists up.
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D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social · 16d
This was a great event! I really enjoyed the readings.

Dark moments, bright moments, powerful stories!

Filipino cultural heritage, Catholicism, D&D, mirrors, strange eeriness... an arresting array of narratives!

@willmcmahon36.bsky.social @donfoolery.com @parkeriswriting.bsky.social
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 16d
Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!
Don Pizarro and Parker M. O’Neill standing on stage under purple lighting with their fists up.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 16d
Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!
Don Pizarro and Parker M. O’Neill standing on stage under purple lighting with their fists up.
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D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social · 16d
Enjoyed “Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops” by @parkeriswriting.bsky.social
Upstate NY, the waters, cataloging of species & cyborg. Gorgeous language & an interesting take on rainmaker! Loved the etymology & provenance of cultural institutions like sports.

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Our Continuity, Each of Us Raindrops
Climate fiction: Two brothers embark on a perilous journey to document endangered species, and instead find a different way to change the world.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 16d
Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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DonP @donfoolery.com · 16d
Granted, "the 22nd night of September" doesn't have the same ring to it as the Earth, Wind & Fire line, but I'm sure @parkeriswriting.bsky.social and I will make it one to remember!

If you're around the 607, come by Liquid State at 7 pm!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 17d
You can purchase LATINX RISING from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social at your local bookstore or via this link: bookshop.org/p/books/lati...
Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 17d
August Reader Spotlight: Edmundo Paz-Soldán read his moving short story “Artificial” from the anthology LATINX RISING (Ohio State University Press, 2020).
Edmundo Paz-Soldán sitting on a stage under purple lighting reading from a packet of papers.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 18d
If you need more convincing, see @megapolisomancy.bsky.social’s review for @seizethepress.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/mega...
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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 18d
I know you've all read this book by now because I keep blathering about it, right
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 18d
You can purchase YOU GLOW IN THE DARK by @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social at your local bookstore, or via this link: bookshop.org/p/books/you-...
You Glow in the Dark
Check out You Glow in the Dark - The seven stories of <em>You Glow in the Dark</em> unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing--at once sleek and dense, o...
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 18d
August Reader Spotlight: @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social captivated the audience with two stories from her collection YOU GLOW IN THE DARK (tr. Chris Andrews for New Directions, 2024), “The Cave” and “The Greenest Eyes.”
Liliana Colanzi seated on stage under purple lighting, reading from her collection YOU GLOW IN THE DARK.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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Parker M. O'Neill @parkeriswriting.bsky.social · 21d
Rochester area writing buddies, come listen to me yap! Non Rochester area writing buddies, now might be a great time for a road trip
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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DonP @donfoolery.com · 24d
Chances are, I wrote what I'll be reading while drinking. If you want to come hear some on Sept. 22nd, you'll have the option of drinking, too!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 24d
Irrealists: Our next reading will be on Monday, September 22nd from 7-9pm at Liquid State, featuring @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
Ithaca Irrealist Readings A boozy reading series featuring authors of the fantastic, the surreal, the absurd, the speculative, and the odd. Don Pizarro Writer whose work has appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Crossed Genres, Lakeside Circus, and other places online and in print. He is a graduate of the 2016 Viable Paradise Writing Workshop and can be found at donfoolery.com. Parker M. O'Neill Writer of fiction appearing or forthcoming in Apex Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Radon Journal, and elsewhere. He is a recent winner of the Elegant Literature Award for New Writers and can be found at linktr.ee/parkermoneill. Liquid State Brewing Monday, September 22nd 7-9 PM irrealist.org
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 28d
You can preorder ELLIPSES by @spires.bsky.social in hardcover, paperback, or ebook from @infinivoxsf.bsky.social via Kickstarter! Act fast, there are only four days left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...
Ellipses-An Original Science Fiction Novella
This is the inaugural volume in a new original hard science fiction novella series called Supernovellas.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · 28d
August reader spotlight: @spires.bsky.social (and her young assistant) gave the crowd an excerpt of her upcoming novella ELLIPSES, forthcoming from Infinivox, about a field biologist discovering life on an alien planet.
D.A. Xiaolin spires sitting on a stage, with her young daughter standing beside her, under purple lighting.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Sep 7
The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front has already stated our revolutionary position on the literary/genre discourse of the day.
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.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Aug 23
If you are in the Ithaca area (or interested in traveling) and would also like to have a great time reading with us, sign up here! forms.gle/9orzjfv9R6QK...
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D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social · Aug 23
Such a great time reading!
Great atmosphere, lovely fiction and fun people.

Thank you @irrealist.bsky.social for organizing, as well as fellow writers @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social and Edmundo Paz-Soldán!

Thank you Liquid State Brewery for hosting.

Looking forward to more readers at the brewery!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Aug 22
We had a great reading this week, featuring @spires.bsky.social, @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social, and Edmundo Paz-Soldán! Look forward to reader spotlights in the coming days. The IILF marches on!
Three people standing together and smiling on a stage under purple lighting: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, and Liliana Colanzi. Around thirty people watching the reading in rows of picnic style tables inside a brewery barrel room.
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Aug 22
We had a great reading this week, featuring @spires.bsky.social, @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social, and Edmundo Paz-Soldán! Look forward to reader spotlights in the coming days. The IILF marches on!
Three people standing together and smiling on a stage under purple lighting: Edmundo Paz-Soldán, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, and Liliana Colanzi. Around thirty people watching the reading in rows of picnic style tables inside a brewery barrel room.
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DonP @donfoolery.com · Aug 18
The revolution will be read aloud!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Aug 18
TONIGHT! Join us for an Ithaca Irrealist Reading featuring @spires.bsky.social @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social and Edmundo Paz-Soldán!
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Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social · Aug 5
¡Adelante! IILF partisans rally for the next Ithaca Irrealist Reading at Liquid State Brewing on Monday, August 18th from 7–9PM. Featuring Liliana Colanzi, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, and @spires.bsky.social! Join us for good fiction, good beer, and good company.
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