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!