membership

Fence has in recent times eschewed cultivation of a philanthropic community. The philanthropic model of arts patronage generally perpetuates inequities. Fence writes grants, and the Board of Directors of Fence does the work of bringing in donations to Fence. Meanwhile Fence creates revenue by means of sales of our books and magazines and by attracting and inviting MEMBERSHIP.

We invite you to support Fence with your joining, which provides Fence authors your readership and in turn provides you with a community of publication. You are undeniably part of Fence. It is a little bit like a worker-owned cooperative and a little bit like a Community Supported Publication. You are paying up front so that Fence can have the security and stability to go forth and publish.

BECOME A MEMBER

$60 MEMBERSHIP

$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 (2 or 3 per year) and issues of Fence (2 per year) plus a Fence item like a cup or a mug or a pouch or a tote, and digital access to all issues of FENCE in their entirety. 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 MEMBERSHIP

$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 (2 or 3 per year) and issues of Fence (2 per year) plus a Fence item like a cup or a mug or a pouch or a tote, digital access to all issues of FENCE in their entirety, and 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 MEMBERSHIP

$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 (2 or 3 per year) plus a Fence item like a cup or a mug or a pouch or a tote, and a lifetime subscription to Fence (2 issues per year), digital access to all issues of FENCE in their entirety, and 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 MEMBERSHIP

$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 (2 or 3 per year) plus a Fence item like a cup or a mug or a pouch or a tote, and a lifetime subscription to Fence (2 issues per year), digital access to all issues of FENCE in their entirety, and 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.

ONE-TIME DONATION

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

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