Welcome in the Light!

The last days of 2025 are here. I’d like to take a moment to thank you for your support in all its many forms this year. Some of you have sent lovely emails, some have shared Storyknife’s social media posts, and some have had the ability to send a donation.

Because of your generosity Storyknife has reached its year-end challenge match! Thank you! You made it possible for women writers to devote real unfettered time to their craft. You kept the lights on at Storyknife and put the delicious food on the table. In 2025, you supported these amazing writers: Maria Hamilton Abegunde, ‘Pemi Aguda, Alisa Alering, Catina Bacote, Clementine Bordeaux, Bella Bravo, Stephanie Brown, M Soledad Caballero, Heather Litnauwista Metrokin Cannon, Abigail Chabitnoy, Cherilyn Chin, Mary Leauna Christensen, Angie Chuang, Kalilinoe Detwiler, Jennifer Dickinson, Shannon Kelly Donahue, Alisha Drabek, Asa Drake, Heid Erdrich, Latria Graham, Caprice Gray, Vivian Hu, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Geeta Kothari, Elizabeth Lee, Mimi Lok, Amy Ludwig, Amanda Machado, Vanessa Mártir, Melanie Merle, Sibylla Nash, Christola Phoenix, Monique Quintana, Kellie Richardson, Clarisse Baleja Saidi, Yaccaira Salvatierra, ire’ne lara silva, Catherine Malcynsky Snyder, Vera Starbard, Laura-Gray Street, Ning Sullivan, Lindsey Toya-Tosa, Raksha Vasudevan, Alyssa Velazquez, Renae Watchman, Renee White Eyes, Diane Wilson, Pamela Woolford, and Kristen Millares Young.

In 2026, there will be fifty more women writers who will take part in the magic of Storyknife. Writers who will be building and rebuilding the world with their stories.

For many people, 2025 has been a year of fear and uncertainty, a year that has harrowed. For literary nonprofits, funding has been reduced or stripped away entirely. For women, voices have been silenced, rights reduced, autonomy threatened. The winter winds at Storyknife have been strong and relentless, but we are still here sheltering the flame. We will not stop nourishing the voices of women writers because we believe that their stories are absolutely fundamental to our shared humanity.

May the new year bring you and yours everything you need to thrive and create.

Sincerely,
Erin

PS If you are one of those people who wait until the last few days of the year to decide which organizations you’d like to support, the 2026 cohort of women writers at Storyknife would appreciate your gift.