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  • Linking to the Writers’ Emergency Assistance Fund

    December’s mania is the Season of Giving.

    Thank you to Susan Johnston of The Urban Muse for promoting the Writers’ Emergency Assistance Fund.

    This fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable trust made up of donations from writers like you to help freelance nonfiction writers in times of acute financial distress. As you can see from the stories, writers who receive funds (not huge, either) generally qualify through not just one financial disaster but two—double-whammies. We’re talking about serious medical conditions like cancer draining a freelance professional’s savings and preventing them from working to support themself.

    Do you believe in writing? in writers? in being grateful when you’re on the end that gets to give and not the one that has to ask?

    Give what you can.

    Happy holidays!

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.

I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)

The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.