As October draws to a close, it's time for a semiannual tradition: Jed suddenly remembering that we're having a fund drive and that he hasn't mentioned it yet.<\/p>\n
I'm always hesitant to post about the fund drives. For one thing, I hate asking people for money. For another thing, I suspect everyone reading this who also reads SH already knows that we're having a fund drive.<\/p>\n
But I know that it often takes several reminders to get me to get around to donating to places that I intend to donate to, and I figure some of y'all may do the same thing. So consider this another reminder.<\/p>\n
And it's always possible that a few of you may not know what I'm talking about. For those folks: twice a year we at Strange Horizons<\/a> ask readers to donate money toward the costs of running the magazine. Since all thirty of us on the staff<\/a> are volunteers, the costs in question mostly involve paying our contributors for their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We've been publishing great new material every week for five years; help us continue to do so!<\/p>\n Nobody seems to believe me when I say this (and I dunno, maybe it's even detrimental to the cause), but I keep hoping: in my ideal model, we would be supported by lots of small donations, and every fund drive would result in, say, 600 people giving us $5 each. I know some of you honestly can't afford a $5 donation; for that matter, I know some of you are low on funds because you've been giving a lot of money to worthwhile organizations this year. That's fine; the magazine is free to all readers, paying or not.<\/p>\n But if you can afford to send us $5, stop by our fund drive page<\/a>. You can donate by way of Network for Good or PayPal, or by papermailing a check or money order. Donations to us are tax-deductible in the US.<\/p>\n Everyone who donates any money at all will be entered in a drawing for our fund drive prizes<\/a>. (There are some particularly cool prizes this time around.) But if you can give us more, there are other benefits; give $25, for example, which is less than the cost of a subscription to one of the major print sf magazines, and you become a member, entitled to a lovely membership card; this year's card features artwork by Greg McBrady (illustrator of Ellen Klages's story \"The Green Glass Sea<\/a>.\") Higher membership levels provide other premiums.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As October draws to a close, it’s time for a semiannual tradition: Jed suddenly remembering that we’re having a fund…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}