Dawn sez,
Strange Horizons's fund-raising drive started June 1st, and we'd hoped to end it by the end of the month, but it looks as though we will need to extend it, as we've only met our goal halfway. Our goal this year is $6,000 and we're doing things a little bit differently than we have in previous years. This year we are giving away prizes mid-drive. Prizes are being awarded to random bloggers–if someone posts a blog about our fund drive during a given week, they are entered into our drawing for that week's prize. This week, the winner of the blogger incentive prize will win a piece of fiction written by Tim Pratt exclusively for this prize. The winner will receive a hand written copy and also two of Tim's books. We are also giving away prize packages when we reach different amounts: $2,000, $4,000, and $6,000 dollars, respectively. The winners of those drawings will receive Escape Pod: Collections 1-5, a five-disc set containing the complete archives of the first thirty months of episodes from Escape Pod.
We're a nonprofit online speculative fiction magazine that pays professional rates for fiction; we're run by a staff of volunteers; we've published new material every week, freely available online, for nearly 8 years (and almost all of it is still available in our archives), including fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, art, and columns; we're funded entirely by donations, in a sort of public-radio-like model; in the US, donations to us are tax-deductible. Stuff we publish gets picked up regularly for Year's Best reprint volumes. Last year a story we published was on the Nebula ballot and another was on the Hugo ballot. Also, our Editor-in-chief, Susan Marie Groppi, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.
(Thanks, Dawn!)
