Update from the Editors
Give to TW—and Make Our Collective Future Bright
All your loves are waiting to be discovered. So any young writer who comes to me for advice, I tell them, 'For chrissakes! Find a love and follow it! And never deviate from it. Be in love all of your life and you'll have a great life.'
— Ray Bradbury, from a 2012 interview
At this time of year, Talking Writing takes a publishing break. We slow down, look within, and honor the love that keeps us rejoicing and producing such a unique magazine. Our “Writing and Faith” issue resumes publishing in January. In the meantime, we’ll be reflecting on TW's direction in 2014.
Over the past three years, we’ve achieved nonprofit status and published hundreds of outstanding stories, poems, and essays. We’ve seen our audience grow to a quarter-million page views a year. The 3,000 comments published on the site since our 2010 launch reflect both a hunger to discuss writing issues and a shared humanitarianism among our readers.
What we haven’t yet achieved is much-needed financial support. As a 501(c)(3) public charity, our revenue must come from individual donations and foundation grants. Each quarterly issue of TW costs $20,000 to edit and produce. While this is a small figure in mainstream magazine terms, it’s a daunting sum for a literary nonprofit—especially considering that TW online subscriptions are free.
If you value what we do and would like to see us continue to publish Talking Writing, please make a donation before the end of the year. Through December 31, a TW benefactor will match all donations, enabling your contribution to go twice as far.
May the entire TW community keep writing and talking and falling in love—building our collective creative fire. Here’s to a glowing 2014!
—Martha Nichols and Elizabeth Langosy
Publishing Information
- "What’s Love Got to Do with It? How a Conversation with Ray Bradbury Changed My Life" by David Boyne, Author Magazine, July 14, 2012.
Art Information
- "Sunrise" @ Shamus Langlois; used by permission
