You think I'm dead, but I sail away

[sovay]

The annual Strange Horizons Fund Drive is now on! Read more here and donate; read the special issue as it's funded here. Bonus content this year includes work by Dominik Parisien, Rose Lemberg, Nisi Shawl, and Bryan Thao Worra, so I really want to see it live. Plus, there are prizes.

Our target this year is $11,000. That's enough to maintain our current professional rates and schedule. Above and beyond, we'd like to afford one illustrated story per month and a wider spectrum of podcast readers. People trust us with all kinds of stories, in poetry and prose; we should be able to give them the voices they deserve.

So help us out!

And thank you.

(And send us more poems while you're at it.)

Comments

[rinue.livejournal.com]

To clarify, I'm not absolutely confident I'm right, but my understanding is that we do not intend to hire additional podcast staff. What would happen is that we would bring in the occasional guest reader, who would tend to fall in one of two categories:

1. somebody people would geek out about (i.e. nerdy famous, whether this means an actor, author, or someone from another podcast)

2. someone with a special voice or accent when nobody on staff is right for the poem (because the podcasters are, I believe, all American, and "good at accents" is not the same as "native speaker")

Again, I could be wrong, but that's my impression from talking with the podcast editor.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Ah well. A pity.