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.

You can’t tell, but as this photo was taken I was repeating the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front manifesto in my head

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!)

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

Fists up for the IILF! Big thanks to @donfoolery.com, @parkeriswriting.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for our September reading!

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. grist.org/climate-fict... @grist.org

Irrealists: join us TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing in downtown Ithaca for readings by @donfoolery.com and @parkeriswriting.bsky.social! Onward!

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!

August Reader Spotlight: Edmundo Paz-Soldán read his moving short story “Artificial” from the anthology LATINX RISING (Ohio State University Press, 2020).

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.”

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.

Rochester area writing buddies, come listen to me yap! Non Rochester area writing buddies, now might be a great time for a road trip

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!

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.

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.

The Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front has already stated our revolutionary position on the literary/genre discourse of the day.

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...

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!

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!

The revolution will be read aloud!

TONIGHT! Join us for an Ithaca Irrealist Reading featuring @spires.bsky.social @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social and Edmundo Paz-Soldán!

This speculative reading is happening TOMORROW, Monday, August 18, 7-9pm at Liquid State Brewery in Ithaca, NY! I'll be reading from my SF novella Ellipses, forthcoming from @infinivoxsf.bsky.social--alongside @lilianacolanzi.bsky.social and Edmundo Paz-Soldán! Please come by & enjoy the readings!

The Kickstarter for my sci-fi novella, ELLIPSES, is live! Launched by my publisher @infinivoxsf.bsky.social. Check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

A beacon of speculative literary salon culture, KGB Fantastic Fiction was one of the inspirations for Ithaca Irrealist Readings—if you find yourself able to help them out, and especially to attend if you’re ever in NYC at the right time, you should!

June reader spotlight: @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social read from her captivating story “To Make Her Eat” in Artifice & Access, an anthology of disability in fantasy.

It's my birthday! 🎉Please celebrate by: -eating something delicious and not feeling guilty about it. -visiting/supporting your local library -telling a creator how much you like their work -reading this story about my hometown which means a lot to me: www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/written-on...

Isang bagsak!

June reader spotlight: @risawolf.bsky.social entertained with two stories featuring characters in unusual packages, with “Build Your Own Heart” (Translunar Travelers Lounge, February 2025) and “Respect the Hustle” (Plott Hound, Spring 2025).

¡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.

June reader spotlight: @swpisciotta.bsky.social came all the way from Colorado to dazzle us with two short stories, “Transubstantiation” (Flash Fiction Online, May 2025) and “Rocket Boy” (Utopia Science Fiction, December 2024). Both were big hits!

Irrealists! After a hiatus in July, we are marching into August with another reading on Monday, August 18! Watch for the lineup announcement early next week. But first, we’ll be using the coming days to spotlight the readers from our last event.

Thank you to our three Ithaca Irrealist Readers for June 2025—fists up for the IILF! @swpisciotta.bsky.social @risawolf.bsky.social & @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social dazzled the crowd with their imaginative fiction. Look out for coming reader spotlights, so you too can enjoy their great work!

Ithaca Irrealists, join us for our June reading TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing from 7-9pm!

TONIGHT! @irrealist.bsky.social reading at Liquid State in Ithaca, NY - see me, @swpisciotta.bsky.social & @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social read from our work.

Ithaca Irrealists, join us for our June reading TONIGHT at Liquid State Brewing from 7-9pm!

Ithaca—join us tomorrow for the second monthly installment of Ithaca Irrealist Readings! Liquid State Brewing from 7-9pm.

Book shops, coffee shops, wine shops, ice cream shops, community notice boards, derelict buildings—the IILF Propaganda Committee leaves no avenue unexploited to mobilize the people of Ithaca to our cause! Join us for the next Ithaca Irrealist Reading on Tuesday, June 24th from 7-9pm at Liquid State.

I'm really looking forward to this reading, at Liquid State, 620 W Green in Ithaca NY!

Come hang out with me on the 24th!

IILF partisans, to arms! Our next Ithaca Irrealist Reading will be Tuesday, June 24th from 7-9pm at Liquid State Brewing! Join @swpisciotta.bsky.social, @risawolf.bsky.social, and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social for good fiction, good beer, and good company!

The collective answer, if anyone was wondering, turns out to be “anything by Italo Calvino” but particularly Invisible Cities. A long shadow cast by our favorite anti-fascist partisan (who also happened to write fiction).

May Reader Spotlight: @edashtonwriting.bsky.social closed us out with big laughs, reading a clone-filled excerpt of his novel MICKEY7, plus his short story “The Butterfly Effect” (Andromeda Spaceways #73), about ill-conceived tampering with the timeline. (Links below.)

May Reader Spotlight: @edashtonwriting.bsky.social closed us out with big laughs, reading a clone-filled excerpt of his novel MICKEY7, plus his short story “The Butterfly Effect” (Andromeda Spaceways #73), about ill-conceived tampering with the timeline. (Links below.)

At one point, a character in this book asks “What would Italo Calvino do?” In this time of crisis, the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front knows the answer: join anti-fascist partisans and take to the mountains, as he did in 1944.

May Reader Spotlight: @daviddegraff.bsky.social, astronomer and science fiction writer, read an unpublished humor story about Lithium, as well as “My Girlfriend is a Nebula” (Lightspeed, Feb 2025), about a star-crossed romance between a librarian and an astronomer. (Link below.)

May Reader Spotlight: @daviddegraff.bsky.social, astronomer and science fiction writer, read an unpublished humor story about Lithium, as well as “My Girlfriend is a Nebula” (Lightspeed, Feb 2025), about a star-crossed romance between a librarian and an astronomer. (Link below.)

May Reader Spotlight: @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, a Nebula Award Finalist speculative fiction writer, read her story “Written on the Subway Walls” (The Sunday Morning Transport, Feb 2025), about a new life for the tunnel that formerly housed the Erie Canal and Rochester city subway. (Link below.)

Long live the Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front!!! This was such a fun event! If you missed it, be sure to catch the next reading!

In the words of Billy Bragg, “If you got a blacklist, I wanna be on it.”