A Little Help for a Literary Journal

Many of you may recall the article in a recent Poets & Writers about how the recent raise in U.S. Postal rates was going to hurt smaller magazines and literary journals - Dzanc Books has stepped in and made a difference for one such journal.

A bit from the article:

"As the Alaska Quarterly Review (AQR) moves into its twenty-sixth year of publication, having celebrated its quarter-century mark with a double issue last fall, founding editor Ronald Spatz should be all smiles. Instead, he is understandably worried that new postal rates, which have increased his mailing costs by around 50 percent, could mean that some small literary publications like AQR might not make it to their next big anniversaries."

At the time, Dzanc's Steven Gillis, wondering what could be done to help, contacted Ronald Spatz and had AQR determine just how much of an effect, monetarily, this Postal increase would have on the journal.  Once Ronald came back with his reply, Dzanc decided to send AQR a donation that would cover that difference for the 2008 mailings of the journal.  The reply?

"The donation will really help AQR!  With gratitude for your extraordinary generosity." - Ronald Spatz

If any Dzanc Books readers would like to help out other literary journals undergoing the same issues as AQR, visit our Support page and make a donation - in the notes section of either a PayPal donation, or a check, list "Lit Journal Postage Issue" and we'll earmark that donation for this ongoing problem literary journals are facing.  And, as a reminder, any such donation is being made to a 501(c)3 non-profit and you'll receive a receipt for tax purposes at the end of the year.