It’s mid-July at Storyknife. This means that everything is very very green and the fireweed is fixing to bloom at any moment. It also means that we’re very very busy.
First of all, the application period is open for the 2025 residency season. In a separate email, I’ll explain how the adjudication process works which will give all of you a peek into what a labor of love Storyknife is. It takes a community of amazing women to put it all together.
Second, I hope you all have made space in your calendar for Live from Storyknife on Thursday, July 18 at 6pm Alaska Time. The bios for this month’s amazing readers are live and the Zoom link will be live on Thursday here . For those of you might miss it (because it’s late on the east coast), there will be a recording posted on the same page.
Finally, I wanted to briefly talk about fundraising. Storyknife is 54% toward meeting its 2024 fundraising goal. Donating money to an organization like Storyknife isn’t about instant gratification. It’s not like going to a performance the night after you donated to a ballet troupe. Instead, in six months or a year, you get to hold Jodi Savage’s The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind or Renata Golden’s Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment or Sara Daniel Rivera’s The Blue Mimes and sink into the artistry of their words on the page.
When you donate to Storyknife, you change the narrative. You support the vision of an incredible diverse group of women writers. You support relationships between women writers that build each other up. You put a payment forward toward a future when the women of Storyknife change the way you see the world, offer you stories you couldn’t have imagined, give you hope for healing and for building.
This may be a challenging year for tiny nonprofits like Storyknife to get your attention. It might seem more expedient to give to large organizations who can afford glossy mailers and advertisements on social media. I hoping that you’ll remember that a residency at Storyknife transforms lives. That you can be the person who makes that possible for a woman writer, who makes it possible for her to believe her words are important.
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