The Dream Foundry: Kickstarter time!
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.
Posted hither and yon, Dreamwidth and Livejournal.
comments over thataway. Speak to me there or here, if you're inclined.
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.
Posted hither and yon, Dreamwidth and Livejournal.
comments over thataway. Speak to me there or here, if you're inclined.