For nearly four years, Clarkesworld has been providing free and unrestricted access to the many wonders our authors and artists have created. In that time, we've never asked for anything in return.

Today, we ask for your help. Today, we start our Citizenship Drive.

Citizenship? What?

Anyone who donates $10 or more to Clarkesworld Magazine becomes an honorary Citizen of Clarkesworld. It's a nice little way for us to identify the generous people who support us.

What are you doing with the money?

Just because it is free, doesn't mean it is without cost. At Clarkesworld, we believe in paying all our authors a professional rate and by doing so, we’re able to attract the high quality of talent you’ve come to expect from us. We pay for most of this by publishing an annual anthology of Clarkesworld fiction, Realms, and through sales of ebook editions. Every penny we receive goes back into magazine; paying authors, artists, and related expenses.  

What is your goal?

Our goal is to recruit 400 new citizens. Can we find 400 people willing to donate less than the cost of a single year's subscription to a paper magazine? We'll see, but with over 20,000 readers, I'd like to hope so.

Does citizenship truly have its privileges?

The whole Citizenship concept is an evolving program. As a citizen, you will counted in the annual Clarkesworld census. The names of all citizens are cataloged and published in an appendix of our annual anthology. Worried about confidentiality? We'll gladly substitute a pseudonym.

Down the line, we intend to offer special discounts on books from Wyrm Publishing, hold drawings for books, and more. We even have plans to offer higher ranking citizens their own colonies within Clarkesworld... become evil (or good) overlords, recruit/shanghai their own townsfolk and have some fun with the whole concept.