Like a lot of independent literary magazines and organizations, Hippocampus Magazine is a volunteer-led labor of love. We’ve grown a lot — in reach, readership, and offerings — since our first issue in May 2011. Since 2014, we’ve made an effort to pay our contributors an honorarium, and, throughout the years, we’ve become more involved in the literary community by attending events like AWP and expanding our mission through our annual conference for creative nonfiction writers, HippoCamp.
What was once a mostly editor-funded endeavor can no longer sustain itself, financially, alone.
The Friends of Hippocampus Magazine Membership Program allows individuals to directly impact their fellow writers and the greater writing community, to be a bigger part of an organization they care about.
The Friends program will help us help other writers through our new Writers for Writers Submissions Fund, and it will help us cover the costs associated with running a robust and active online magazine: web hosting and technology, software/marketing subscriptions, postage, advertising, industry memberships, printing, and event space rental. (Read our official Friends announcement, a heartfelt speech from our flash editor)
As an update for 2021, our annual conference was hit incredibly hard by the pandemic and some technology issues required us to do some behind-the-scenes web work and also switch web hosting companies. Significant personal funds were required to help in both of these instances. In short, we need your help now more than ever.
How to Become a Friend
Choose the membership level best-suited for you. (You may also make a one-time gift of any size here.)
You’ll enter payment details once, today, and then your monthly membership is automatically processed each month! Easy-peasy! (You may also change levels, pause your membership, or update your payment details at ANY time.)
We’ll list all of our Friends on our website and if your membership comes with any additional premiums, we’ll share those with you within your first few months of membership.
Join the Friends Level that best fits your budget:
(You may also make a one-time gift of any size here.)
More Details About Our Membership Levels
| $3/month ($36/year) – Submission Supporter | Supports our Writers for Writers Submission Fund, which allows writers in need to submit to the magazine free of cost. (Benefits: Listing on website) |
| $5/month ($60/year) – Issue Supporter | Supports expenses related to producing 6 amazing issues per year (Benefits: Listing on website, Friends of Hippocampus vinyl sticker) |
| $10/month ($120/year) – Contributor Supporter | Supports our efforts to pay an honorarium to every magazine contributor (Benefits: Listing on website, Friends of Hippocampus vinyl sticker, 15%-off coupon from Books by Hippocampus store) |
| $20/month ($240/year) – Community Supporter | Invest in the Hippocampus literary community by supporting all essential magazine operations, including tech and marketing needs (Benefits: Listing on website, Friends of Hippocampus vinyl sticker, coupon for 25% off at the Books by Hippocampus store.) |
Note: While we’re referring to this as an annual membership, you can pause or cancel at any time, no questions asked! You can also change your membership level or update your payment method at any time as well. Just visit your My Account page to manage your membership!
Meet Friends of Hippocampus Magazine
We’re grateful for these individuals and anonymous members.
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