{"id":12309,"date":"2009-08-12T21:09:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/08\/12\/12309.html"},"modified":"2009-08-12T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T04:09:36","slug":"how-you-can-support-strange-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/08\/12\/how-you-can-support-strange-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Horizons fund drive 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It's been almost nine years since Strange Horizons launched<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During that time we've published over four hundred stories<\/a>, as well as a great deal of poetry, reviews, articles, art, columns, and other material. We've still never missed a week, except for the week at the end of each year that we take off.<\/p>\n

The magazine has twice been nominated for a Hugo award. Stories we've published have been reprinted in a variety of Year's Best<\/cite> anthologies, and have appeared on major award shortlists. Our poetry also gets nominated for awards.<\/p>\n

Twice in the past couple of weeks, friends of mine have been surprised to learn that we have about thirty staff members, all volunteers. The magazine is a labor of love, one that the remarkably dedicated staff has put an amazing amount of work into for a long time.<\/p>\n

Once a year, we ask the community for donations. We still run on a shoestring budget: we pay fiction writers what passes for pro rates in our field, and we pay token payments for some other departments, and we pay for web hosting, and we pay for a tea party at WisCon each year; and those areas are pretty much where all our money goes. (Well, and this year we may spend some money on redesigning the site.)<\/p>\n

This year, we're asking for $7000 in donations. We've received a little over $1200 so far. If you'd like to donate money, stop by our 2009 fund drive page<\/a>. (If you stopped by before and found the PayPal button broken, try again; it should be fixed now.)<\/p>\n

As always, donating will make you eligible for the various fabulous prizes<\/a> that lots of cool people have donated as fund-drive premiums. Signed books! Art! Magazine subscriptions! And if you donate $50 or more, you get an SH<\/cite> mug or T-shirt, too. (I'm personally especially fond of the mugs.)<\/p>\n

If donating money isn't your thing, though, there are other things you can do. See next entry.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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