MEMBERSHIP HAS NO PRIVILEGES. BUT IT IS GOOD FOR EVERYONE. 

$60 annual membership directly provides cash payment to contributors.

With 100 members at this level, we can pay our Poets $50 per poem; Prose writers $50 for the first three pages and an extra $10 per page after that.

Annually you will receive all of our books (3 or 4 per year) and issues of Fence (2 per year) plus a Fence tote. The tote is made of organic cotton w/ fair wages. Your membership dues are tax-deductible, above the value of the gifts you receive in return.

Please indicate whether you would like to be recognized in our Membership Roll (at bottom and in print) with a quick email to rebeccafence@gmail.com.

$150 annual members give directly to our printing costs.

An issue of Fence costs about $5,000 to print. Our books each cost about $2,500.

Annually you will receive all of our books (usually 4 per year) and issues of Fence (2 per year) plus a Fence tote, (the tote is made of organic cotton w/ fair wages), and have free entry to one book contest (transferable), plus a ticket to our annual Summer Party for Fence in Hudson, New York. Your membership dues are tax-deductible, above the value of the gifts you receive in return.

Please indicate whether you would like to be recognized in our Membership Roll (at bottom and in print) with a quick email to rebeccafence@gmail.com.

$450 members give directly to our postage and shipping costs, which average about $4,500 per year.

Annually you will receive all of our books (3 or 4 per year) plus a Fence tote, (the tote is made of organic cotton w/ fair wages), and a lifetime subscription to Fence (2 issues per year), and free entry to one book contest (transferable), plus two tickets to our annual Summer Party for Fence in Hudson, New York, PLUS a one-hour manuscript consultation with a Fence editor (transferable), PLUS a year's supply of Editor Juice, a handmade (by editor Rebecca Wolff) all-natural skin serum that will keep you feeling silky and fresh and plump in the cells.

Your membership dues are tax-deductible, above the value of the gifts you receive in return.

Please indicate whether you would like to be recognized in our Membership Roll (at bottom and in print) with a quick email to rebeccafence@gmail.com.

$1000 members contribute to the higher mind of Fence, allowing our editors to receive visions even while they do the labor of daily operations. Additionally these funds cover physical plant and equipment needs, and unpredictable costs like those of reprinting backlist titles: Fence pledges to keep its titles in print always.

Annually you will receive all of our books (3 or 4 per year) plus a Fence tote (the tote is made of organic cotton w/ fair wages), and a lifetime subscription to Fence (2 issues per year), and free entry to one book contest (transferable), plus SIX tickets to our annual Summer Party for Fence in Hudson, New York, PLUS a two-hour manuscript consultation with a Fence editor (transferable), PLUS a year's supply of Editor Juice, a handmade (by editor Rebecca Wolff) all-natural skin serum that will keep you feeling silky and fresh and plump in the cells.

Please indicate whether you would like to be recognized in our Membership Roll (at bottom and in print) with a quick email to rebeccafence@gmail.com.

FENCE welcomes your support!

DONATIONS at any level are sincerely appreciated. In order to donate, please make a tax-deductible financial contribution to our ongoing efforts, which cluster eternally around our intense desire to provide reliable and visible encouragement to writers to write whatever they feel like writing. Fence is designed with variousness at its heart, and is mimetic in its structure of the cognitive and affective efforts we all make to understand one another’s convictions, opinions, inclinations, experience.

As embedded in Fence, nonprofit status means that, although as part of our mission we cleave to best practices in making our books and magazine palatable as products and widely disseminated, when it comes down to it we would be happy to give it all away. We are not in this for the money. When we make a book that “makes” money we count profit in the currency of audience for that writing, not money. The money goes back into making books. There is no profit other than in how the writer profits from being read. Correspondingly, at no point in our deliberations about what to publish are we forced to consider what will sell.

Fence is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in the state of New York and is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by any Friends of Fence.

Fence is advised by

editorial advisors
Mary Jo Bang
Anne Carson
Annie Dillard
Brenda Hillman
Ruth Ellen Kocher
Jonathan Lethem
Marjorie Welish

board
Bill Clegg
Menachem Kaiser
Fiona Macrae
Robert Polito
Christopher Stackhouse
Cole Swensen
Rebecca Wolff