words in the key of me

I've talked about it for years, and now I'm finally doing it. I'm making a magazine!



Small Wonders is a monthly magazine of science fiction and fantasy flash fiction and poetry. We publish one original story, one original poem, and one reprint story each week. Subscribers will be able to choose your delivery method - straight to your inbox for a steady stream of small wonders, or formatted as an ebook with everything together to read at your leisure.

Our kickstarter is happening right now, and every tier gets a copy of our proof of concept issue 0, with awesome stories and poems from Beth Cato, Wendy Nikel, Saswati Chatterjee, Moses Ose Utomi, John Wiswell, Premee Mohamed, Ali Trotta, Mary Soon Lee, and Charles Payseur.

We're releasing issue 0 as the campaign happens, alongside mini-interviews with the authors and other peeks behind the scenes.

And it's not just me, of course. I have a wonderful co-editor, Stephen Granade, and we are putting together a team of readers and other folks to help out as well. Everything about the magazine is an effort in collaboration, and I'm working hard to make it a good experience for readers and writers alike.

But first, we've gotta fund. I'm making bookmarks and writing tiny stories. I'm hollering about the campaign in all the places (hi! Long time no post!) as I hope I've hit the right amount of shouting enthusiastically about this thing I love. I'm grateful and I'm hopeful and I'm really proud of everything we've managed so far.

Check it out.

So, hi! Last year I helped start a new nonprofit, and this year we're doing our first major fundraiser.

The Dream Foundry is an organization aiming to help build a healthy ecosystem in the speculative arts - if you make weird stuff, we're for you. We're developing resources to help network and connect writers, podcasters, translators, artists and illustrators, editors, and game writers. We've got a special focus on beginners in the industry, but we want to help support people throughout their creative careers.

We've already started putting out industry news and nifty articles on our website. We are also running a really cool discussion series on our forums - the discussions are led by paid industry professionals and take a deep dive into a specific theme across different media (right now we're doing Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series and looking at the theme of found families, and Ferrett Steinmetz is leading this round of discussion - join us here!). And we have big plans for the future, including a contest for beginners - maaaaybe the very near future of this very year, if we reach our stretch goals!

The Kickstarter has some great loot - t-shirts, small crocheted critters by yours truly (I take requests!), a voicemail in your inbox by Charlie Jane Anders, manuscript critiques, artist hangouts, and more! It's awesome, and every little bit of support matters and helps us do more.

Come check us out.