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Welcome to the website of Deborah J. Brannon, an aspiring Mythologist and folklorist, studier of fairy tales, literary maven, and practicing writer who's currently working on her Masters at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Latest News
Deborah's review of Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue is now live at her blog!
Deborah's review of Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter available September 1st, 2009, at Cabinet des Fées.
Deborah's review of Coraline, the 2009 Laika film, now live at Green Man Review in their Neil Gaiman Special Edition!
Deborah's review of The Homeless Moon chapbook by the group known as The Homeless Moon is now online.
Deborah's review of Ravens in the Library, edited by SatyrPhil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk is now online.
"Postcards From A Traveling Oracle: To Nine Sisters, from Kyoto" - an interstitial project - is now live.
You can now read "Ireland, A Sapphic Poem" by Deborah at the 50th Anniversary Issue of The Pedestal Magazine.
Deborah interviews Patricia A. McKillip for the 19 October 2008 edition of Green Man Review! Read the interview here.
"My Small Army of Souls" is now live in Cabinet des Fées' Sixth Issue of Scheherezade's Bequest.
From Livejournal
2009 was a pretty awesome year for the Interstitial Arts Foundation: Interfictions 2 came out, they released some excellent fiction for free online in their Annex, and we had a successful auction of interstitial art featuring some amazing creations. I hear they also had some pretty fabulous Salons in New York and Los Angeles, but this Georgia lady wasn't able to make any of those. (Here's for an Atlanta-based Interstitial Salon in 2010! Who's with me?*)
By the by, if anyone is located in or near Indianapolis, Indiana: there's a Interstitial Salon happening at the Indiana Writer's Center on February 28th! See this post for access to more information.
I'm excited to see this interstitial arts movement flourishing, and more people both noticing and celebrating art that defies categorization. I'm delighted a support structure is growing for those artists who create works that side-step genre and dance between forms; I'm overjoyed that necklaces-what-are-also-stories and fiction-that-is-also-an-itemized-list and postcards-that-are-poems have a platform on which to glory. And I'm absolutely on board with the IAF's latest call: we need more people, more enthusiasm, and more ideas!
In short, we need YOU.
The Board and Working Group have already compiled a bit of a 2010 Wishlist and posted it on the main IAF blog, but I'll reproduce it for you below:
Post more regular news, reviews, events, and promotion of interstitial artists and their work.
Establish a forum for interstitial artists to exchange ideas, collaborate, network, and brainstorm.
Create an online art gallery.
Feature guest bloggers on a regular basis.
Organize an interstitial art symposium.
Begin work on Interfictions 3.
Generate a wider engagement with the interstitial art community through co-sponsored events with other artists & organizations.
Hold more salons in towns across the U.S. & in Europe (Please visit our new How to Host an IAF Salon page!)
Each of these items is a solid prospect for perpetuating and heightening the momentum the Interstitial Arts Foundation now has. I'm completely game for assisting in an Atlanta Salon - and you can easily get started on one of your own, with the tutorial already available on the website.
But what else should be added to that list?
I'm considering ways to get interstitial art in general (and Interfictions in particular) involved more academically. My ideas are still largely inchoate; however, given my current status as a graduate student, this is definitely an area where I'd like to focus some enthusiasm and elbow grease.
But come, bring your thoughts and suggestions! Bring your enthusiasm! You can comment here or join in the discussion on the original IAF post. And, if you've ever wanted to volunteer with the IAF, now's the time to speak up!
[Comment on this entry at Livejournal.]
Updates
Some of the most recent site updates include:
Added review of Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire to Reviews page.
Updated main page to reflect recent activity and added Twitter badge.
Added link to review of The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany.
Added review of Coraline to Reviews page.
Added reviews of The Secret History of Giants by Ari Berk and Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey to Reviews page.
For a full list of site updates, please click here.