Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts A project of The Interstitial Arts Foundation (see other related projects). This project is on indefinite hiatus. Check their site to find out whether this is a submission and/or publication hiatus. (June 2016) About Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts [is] a web-based journal that extends the Interstitial Arts Foundation’s two-volume anthology series, Interfictions. As writers and editors with one foot in the academic literary community and one in the science fiction and fantasy community, we see the boundaries between genres and forms as permeable membranes, not fortified borders. Our mission is to gather pieces from wildly different corners of the writing, visual arts, and music worlds in order to showcase weird and wonderful work that falls outside conventional categories. The online journal we’ve assembled for your reading, listening, and viewing pleasure, focuses on interdisciplinary art that blurs the lines between genres, forms, and mediums. Interstitial art brings music and language and visual art together, and repurposes old forms for new subject matter. It produces unfamiliar styles and strange, hybrid genres of writing for readers who have a taste for something different, for something new. Publishing as an online journal allows us a much larger degree of play in these areas, and we hope to push the boundaries of what it means to publish on the web. Country of Publication United States Publication Medium & Frequency Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationPublished 2 x per year Collapse section Fiction On Hiatus Rather than defining “interstitial” for you, we’d like you to show us what genre-bending fiction looks like. Surprise us; make us see that literature holds possibilities we haven’t yet imagined. We’re invested in fostering a diverse and inclusive literary culture, so work from writers of traditionally underrepresented backgrounds is welcome.Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Genres: General Subgenres: Cross-Genre, SlipstreamLengths: Short Story: 1,000 - 7,500 words. Novelette: 7,500 - 10,000 words.Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.Topics: Open to all/most Topics.Payment:Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.Submissions:Method: Submittable submission manager. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.Media: Text. Collapse section Nonfiction On Hiatus We are looking for border-defying nonfiction: essays that mind the gaps. Send us pieces that engage the interstitial arts that inspire you, or draw attention to underexplored borderlands between genres. Above all, send us work that is, itself, interstitial: experimental essays, theory-fictions, works that can’t decide whether they’re academic or personal, hard-to-place pieces that are too quirky for mainstream journals and too involved for your blog. We're also interested in interviews with boundary-crossing artists.Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Lengths: Interview: 2,000 - 3,000 words. Essay: 2,000 - 4,000 words.Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Academic, Experimental, Literary.Topics: Open to all/most Topics.Payment:Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.Submissions:Method: Submittable submission manager. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.Media: Text. Collapse section Poetry On Hiatus What does your poem stand between? Is it a ghazal without a beloved, an auto-corrected lyric, a ballad on wheels? Send us work that thrives in the in-between zone, poems that resist packaging. We are particularly interested in that misunderstood creature, the prose poem, and in poems set to music or pictures. We’re also interested in pieces that say something; too-clever or jokey poems will be a hard sell. Send us your best efforts to dream beyond the form, beyond the conventions, beyond the page.Audience:Open to a broad Audience.Genres: General Subgenres: Cross-Genre, SlipstreamLengths: Poem: No line limits known; Up to 5 pieces.Poetry Forms:Open to all/most Forms, including: Hybrid form.Styles:Open to all/most Styles, including: Experimental, Literary.Topics: Open to all/most Topics.Payment:Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem) Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem).Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.Submissions:Method: Submittable submission manager. Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.Media: Text. Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren't familiar with these terms, see our glossary. 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