Ephemera Subscriptions

Details & Perks for Subscribers

Good Readers,

We ask you to consider becoming paid subscribers to help support our burgeoning newsletter. As a part of becoming a yearly subscriber, we’ve provided what is hopefully a very enticing incentive: We would like to introduce The Write In Residency, which officially launched with our subscription drive. Please scroll down for the full details on the Residency. Quickly, we will run it 2x per year. Yearly subscribers will be able to apply for free. Our next residency application period will begin in December 2023.

We hope that by working very hard these past 24 months (somehow that’s nearly 100 issues!) to provide useful industry info, intros to new magazines, awards, vetted and timely job openings, a unique style of artistic analysis linking visual art and music with how to conceive of creativity within our own art and writing practices, as well as interesting asides, products, and of course our punchy inspiration “rants,” that all of our efforts have earned your interest, intrigue, and trust.

We will continue to do good, to coalesce relevant literary ephemera into this letter. By going paid on Substack, if we hit our benchmarks, we’ll be able to hire series and column editors to help with expanding our coverage of the writing and inspiration world:

• we’re thinking of Ephemera-style book reviews & author interviews

• artist and musician interviews

• personal job/submission reminders

• building a community space for discussion and prompts

• specially crafted white papers on an essential skill

• deep-dives into a story or poem from veteran and/or up-and-coming writing minds

• other miscellany (maybe Ephemera’s own classics line).

We’re very excited for this and appreciate everyone who has kept up with us! Thank you kindly. In times of isolation, it is really meaningful to hear such positive feedback, to receive a like, just to see how many opens our letter gets (thousands!). Our readers, this community, is sustaining.

We’re constantly endeavoring to bring more accolades, more opportunity to writers, to democratize the space so to speak. Subscribers who join our yearly plan will be invited to submit to The Write In Residency for free, which will run 2x per year according to the details and rules here ($50 value). There will be other perks and benefits, apart from being able to receive the full version of every newsletter and our exclusive expanded content.

Monthly subscribers will receive full access to every newsletter and can convert to the yearly plan, applying their already spent monthly rates toward the yearly cost at any time (refund takes effect at the end of a 12 month period).

We will bring more perks and benefits as we go and will post about these updates and all offers in a clear and transparent manner in designated posts for your reference.

• Monthly: $5 (Submit free to Poetry @ Ephemera—$10/month value)

• Yearly: $74 (2 free submissions to The Write-In Residency—$50 value)

• Creative Genius: submit for free 2x to The Write In, 3 Poetry Issues, & the Good Contrivance Residency ($120 value).

Please click the icon to read about our program The Write In Residency. Or sign up for our yearly plan to gain free access. You can also simply read all content at our monthly rate, or occasional full posts and select other content for free.

We appreciate your presence!

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Next application period: Opens in December 2023.

We all need more time to read and write, find new books, and publishers. In that pursuit, we’ve launched The Write In Residency. The Write In Residency will sponsor 2 individuals, where the winner is gifted a curated package of 10 new books in multiple literary genres from 10 independent publishers, a Moleskin & pen, and a $300 award to upgrade their writing nook or home office. It’s a staycation residency for the bookish!

The Write In Residency Details:

• 2 applicants will receive the residency.

• $300/each toward writing-room upgrades (or for whatever you like).

• 10 Books from indie publishers. (Full publisher list below).

• Moleskin & Pen.

• Optional: Each awardee may write an optional 2 page essay on the experience and Ephemera will publish it in our newsletter.

• ~$600 value all considered + Publication.

• $25 application fee. (Free for yearly newsletter subscribers).
  

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“A sponsored staycation for the bookish!”

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Read more about the residency at our post and find all submission details on Submittable.