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Week Four Blogger Prize: Update, by Dawn Olmo (06/30/08)
Since we have only a few hundred dollars left before we reach our goal, we've decided to extend week's four blogger incentive prize until we reach that goal. If you blog about our fund drive before we reach our goal,...
Week Four Blogger Incentive Prize, by Dawn Olmo (06/24/08)
Tim Pratt has won the Hugo Award for his short story "Impossible Dreams." He is the author of the Marla Mason series, and has won the Rhysling Award for SF Poetry. He has had numerous poems and stories published right...
Winner of the Week Three Blogger Incentive Prize, by Dawn Olmo (06/23/08)
Congratulations go out to Mahesh Raj Mohan for winning this week's blogger incentive prize. He'll be enjoying A Hand Crafted Prize Pack: One Hand Knit Robot This robot will be hand knit especially for our week three winner by a...
Winner of the Week Two Blogger Prize, by Dawn Olmo (06/20/08)
Our winner of the week two blogger prize is Martin Wisse. Congratulations Martin! He is the winner of the Small Beer Press Prize Package which includes: * Pretty Monsters: Stories by Kelly Link. * The Ant King and Other Stories...
Blogger Incentive Prizes Week Three, by Dawn Olmo (06/16/08)
Welcome to Week Three of the Strange Horizons fund drive! We have an exciting announcement to make in the next day or two, which will be about the winner of last week's blogger incentive prize, but first I'd like to...
Blogger Prizes: Update, by Dawn Olmo (06/15/08)
I am currently in the process of discussing this week's prize and until I have final confirmation on it, I won't say what it is, but I wanted to let you all know that it will be updated shortly! Look...
We've reached our first $2,000!, by Dawn Olmo (06/13/08)
As you know, this year we decided to not only give prizes to people who donated at the end of the drive, but to give prizes to people who donated throughout the drive. Our first goal was $2,000, and with...
Blogger Prizes: Week One Winner!, by Dawn Olmo (06/13/08)
The week one blogger prize winner is announced!
Blogger Incentive Prizes Week Two!, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/10/08)
Welcome to Week Two of the Strange Horizons fund drive! We have a bunch of exciting announcements to make in the next day or two, including the winners of some of our special bonus prizes, but first I'd like to...
Blogger Prizes: Update, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/09/08)
Hello everyone! The first week's blogger prizes will be delayed slightly, sorry about that. I've been on an airplane for most of the day, and am just in no shape to put it together before I've had some sleep. But...
Fund Drive Prizes Updated, by Dawn Olmo (06/06/08)
I've just spent the last three hours updating the prize pages. Why it took so long is a story not worth speaking of, but it is done and that makes me happy. We have a lot of very cool prizes...
Blogger Bonus Prize, Week 1: The Fairy Tale Package, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/02/08)
As mentioned in my last post, we're offering special prizes for people who promote (and link to) the Strange Horizons Fund Drive in their blogs, web journals, or other forms of online presence. The first weekly blogger prize is a...
Blogger Incentive Prizes!, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/02/08)
Okay, so I'm only on my third post of the fund drive, and I'm already starting to be exhausted from using all of these exclamation points. Sorry about that. I am, in fact, actually very excited about the fund drive,...
Fund Drive: New and Improved!, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/02/08)
Here at Strange Horizons, we try very hard to learn from our mistakes. We used to do fund drives twice a year. Twice the fun, right? Wrong! Over the last few years, we started to notice a kind of fund-drive...
The 2008 Strange Horizons Fund Drive!, by Susan Marie Groppi (06/01/08)
Welcome to the 2008 Strange Horizons Fund Drive! Strange Horizons is a little bit unusual, for science fiction magazines. It's not just that we're the longest-running online magazine in the genre, and it's not just that we've built our reputation...