Cyberfunded Creativity News?

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What news have you heard recently about cyberfunded creativity? Articles, links, practitioners, etc. are all welcome.

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Expanded Horizons

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I thought of something. :)

Expanded Horizons webzine (http://www.expandedhorizons.net/) is dedicated to increasing the diversity in speculative fiction. They have a very broad definition for that! They want stories about and from women, ethnic and racial groups not often represented in speculative fiction, GLBT and genderqueer folk, disabled people, otherkin and people with "rare energetic sensitivities" (not sure what that mean).

There's also a fun list of stories they don't want to see here (http://www.expandedhorizons.net/submission.html#donthead) - scroll down a bit to the "we do not publish any story with the following plotline" bit. I laughed, anyway - I've certainly read a lot of those stories. :)

For a good example of what they do publish, I really liked their story Fellow Travelers (http://www.expandedhorizons.net/3/fellowtravelers.html), which is a little sweet and a little surreal and a little painful too, and very different than what I usually read. Bit hard on the poor mormon kid, though. :)

There is also a livejournal community, exp_horizons, though it's very quiet right now. They take Amazon donations to defray the cost of publication.