Category: Fundraiser

I hate asking for money. We asked for money in 2022 and it was rough: a lot of work, a lot of feeling sorry for pressuring people in those ridiculously hard times. But we managed, and it let us raise pay rates and put out a special issue we’re proud of.

These times are harder. I can only imagine they’ll get harder still. It seems almost impossible to pick . . .

Reckoning Press has been a nonprofit for almost seven years, and we’ve never had a fundraiser.

We’ve always paid professional rates to writers and artists, as well as providing small honoraria to editors and staff. We’ve read some 5,000 submissions, published 83 stories, 72 poems, 42 essays and 19 artworks about environmental justice. . . .