Fund an Award Form

Please use this form to submit your information for funding an award. We know that it looks long and intense, but you only have to submit the fields that apply to you, so it’s really rather simple. Promise. Leave any field blank that doesn’t apply to you, except the few required bits of information at the beginning.
Name*
Email*
Zip code*
Twitter @handle
Do you want your donation to go toward:

Coil Book AwardElectric Book AwardSpark Book AwardCharter Oak AwardLuminaire Award for Best PoemLuminaire Award for Best ProseOblaye AwardPlease use it wherever it is needed most
Do you wish to be anonymous?*

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Where did you hear about this fundraiser? (If our Fundraiser Director specifically sent you here, please let us know!)*
If you want to pay by cash, check, or money order, please indicate here which prize position you are claiming, then send your cash, check, or money order (MADE OUT TO ANGSTMAN ARTS) to Alternating Current, PO Box 183, Palo Alto, CA 94302-0183. Fill in the rest of this form as it applies to you. PLEASE NOTE: Payments over $200 cannot be made by personal check. They require a business check, cashiers check, money order, wire transfer, or bank check. Please email alt.current@gmail.com if you have questions.
Do you want to give monthly or annually, or have a grant or residency opportunity you'd like to provide through Alternating Current? Please briefly explain, and someone will contact you.
Name or company name as you want it listed
We also accept non-monetary sponsor gifts. Examples: book bundles, gift cards, memberships, free writer services or residencies, merchandise, etc. Prizes should be universal, and small enough to ship economically but large enough to matter to an author. For some prizes, we may ask you to ship directly to the winners, if it is physically large, or requires personal winner details, such as shirt sizes or personalized items. We offer sponsor prizes for up to 12 places for many of our awards, so please feel free to provide more than one item. We will list your items as prizes to give you added exposure and to entice submitters. Prizes should be something that everyone can share in; for example, a gift certificate to a physical store in Kentucky that has no online presence doesn’t do a Florida author any good. We urge you to give physical prizes in addition to monetary prizes, rather than in lieu of, unless the physical prizes are of substantial quality, worth, or importance to a writer.
If you want to give non-monetary prizes, please briefly explain.
If giving a non-monetary prize, please upload a picture of the product as a GIF, JPG, or PNG. If more than one picture is necessary, please send additional photos to alt.current@gmail.com.

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If you donate $50 or more, provide a mailing address for thank-you gifts. If you wish for your donation to go further and for us not to send physical rewards, leave this space blank.
If you donate $50-$99, you may select one PDF of your choice from our latest Alternating Current titles. If you donate $100-$199, you may select two. If you donate $200-$299, you may select three. If you donate $300 or more, you may select all four.

Moon Up, Past FullFootnote #1The Poor Man’s Guide to an Affordable, Painless SuicidePoiesis Review #6OnderdonkeyGirl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love
If you donate $50 or more, you may give your portion of the award in honor (etc.) of someone. Your donation is:

Given in honor ofGiven in memory ofGiven in celebration ofDedicated toOther
If selected above, enter an honoree’s name.
If “other” is selected above, enter an appropriate introduction.
You may choose to credit it to your name or company (Example: “Given in honor of Leah Angstman by My Company.” If no honoree is listed above: “Given by My Blog Title.”). Name, company, etc., to credit:
If you donate $100 or more, you can have your honoree’s name hyperlinked to this URL:
If you donate $200 or more, you can provide up to 100 words about the honoree, to be used as a bio on the website.

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If you donate at least $100, you can showcase your company, site, blog, press, etc., logo. The logo begins at the $100 mark and gets shown in more and more places as your donation increases. See chart for details.
If you donate $100 or more, upload your company logo as a PNG with a transparent background.

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If you donate $200 or more, you can have your company’s logo hyperlinked to this URL:
If you donate $300 or more, you can provide up to 100 words about your company, blog, site, store, etc., to be used as a bio on the website alongside the logo.

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If you donate $300 or more, you receive an additional logo or advertisement in the sidebar of our heavily-trafficked blog, The Spark, during the award year (The length of time varies depending on donation amount, so check the chart.). If your donation is over $300, upload a logo or advertisement (no dates, emphasis on visual, light on extra wording), if different from any logos entered above.

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If you donate $1,000 or more, you receive a logo in the printed and ebook versions of the winning book. Upload a hi-res grayscale PNG logo with a transparent background, if different from logos above.

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If you donate $1,000 or more, you receive printed acknowledgment in the books and ebook versions, in addition to a logo. What (approximately) would you like printed for a dedication or brief company pitch or something to that effect? (We may have to alter it slightly according to sentence structure or how it fits in with the printed page and wording, but we will run all final edits by you before printing.)

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If you donate $1,000 or more, you get the option of being a finalist judge. This means you are agreeing to read the finalist round of submissions and to rank them in your preferred order. There are at least five judges who rank the order, so yours is one of five deciding votes, fairly balanced. A professional reading panel reads all submissions and selects a semifinalist round that Alternating Current editors approve, so that we are sure all finalists will have the aesthetic, talent, and appropriateness to represent our press. You will be selecting from the best of the best. There is no obligation to do this, but if you agree to it, please have the time to commit to it.
If you’ve donated $1,000 or more, would you like to be a judge?

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If you donate $2,000 or more, you receive a personally signed physical copy of the winning book. Please list a name or any necessary info, if you’d like it personally autographed to yourself or to someone else, or sent somewhere other than your provided address.
Anything else you’d like us to know?
Please note that we have the right to refuse or to edit any payment, dedication, wording, or logo that is deemed inappropriate or that comes from sources with messages or practices we don’t support.
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