Following the success of the interstitial anthology Interfictions (edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss in 2007), the Interstitial Arts Foundation and Small Beer Press will be publishing a follow-up anthology in 2009, this time to be edited by Sherman and Chris Barzak. They will be accepting submissions from 1 October to 2 December, but have already published guidelines, which state, in part:
What We’re Looking For:
Interstitial Fiction is all about breaking rules, ignoring boundaries, cross-pollinating the fields of literature. It’s about working between, across, through, and at the edges and borders of literary genres, including fiction and non-fiction. It falls between the cracks of other movements, terms, and definitions. If you have a story idea that’s impossible to describe in a couple of sentences, it may be interstitial.
We’re looking for previously unpublished stories that engage us and make us think about literature in new ways. 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.
In addition to text, they’ll consider graphic stories of up to ten pages. Preferred length for non-graphic stories is 4,000-10,000 words, for which they’ll pay five cents per word. Full guidelines are available on this page.