Murder in a good cause as TNQ combines mystery, brunch and a reading

The literary magazine The New Quarterly in Waterloo is combining murder, mayhem, books and fundraising on July 9 in Waterloo. The central focus is the book Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny, which is this year's One Book, One Community selection. A customized murder mystery has been scripted, informed by the book, and will be performed by The Mysterious Players. 
By the end of dessert, participants

The Tyee names five winners of $5,000 journalism fellowships

The online magazine The Tyee should receive regular strokes from the rest of us for its independent journalism fellowships. These provide $5,000 to writers to fund labour-intensive and ambitious writing projects. 
The magazine received 60 proposals this time around and has selected what sound like five must-reads (which are usually published as a series of articles.) 
All the funding for the

Briarpatch fundraising campaign looks to Cuban agriculture for inspiration

Briarpatch magazine is taking a leaf from the home-grown development of Cuban agriculture following the collapse of its patron, the Soviet Union, and developing a "deeper roots" campaign to build sustainable funding. In an open letter to readers, editor Dave Oswald Mitchell says the relatively small circulation leftish magazine is looking at a funding shortfall of $30,000 in 2010/11, the result,

Geist magazine provides readers with a way to invest $20 in new writing and art

Vancouver-based Geist magazine has marked its 20th anniversary with the launching of the Geist Writers and Artists Fund, dedicated to commissioning even more work from Canadian writers, photographers and artists. It's an attempt by the magazine to continue the work that has been made possible the past three years by a couple of special grants related to the Olympics.By providing [writers and

The Walrus magazine receives $225,000 funding boost to help pay writers

The Slaight Family Foundation has committed $225,000 ($75,000 per year for three years) to create the Allan Slaight Writers Fund inside the Walrus Foundation to support writers at The Walrus magazine.While very pleased with the funding, which will all go to pay writers, co-publisher Shelley Ambrose cautions that the magazine still has some way to go in its fundraising -- it spends $400,000 per

Paste readers care, they really care

The music magazine Paste was on its uppers two months ago and appealed to its readers for donations, lest it be necessary for it to close. Well, some 10,000 donations (!) later, it has raised $250,000. Editor-in-chief Josh Jackson says the campaign will wrap up this month. Donors receive exclusive tracks from artists including the Indigo Girls, Josh Rouse, Matthew Sweet and The Decemberists.

Magazines urged to review new charitable fundraising rules

Changes to rules and procedures at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) should be carefully reviewed by magazines who have charitable status or are associated with a separate organization which does, according to a bulletin just released to its members by Magazines Canada.As part of its crackdown on charities who spend too high a proportion of their fundraising revenue on expenses, CRA) is