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!
22 September 2025, 7-9PM
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.
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.
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.