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As you know, we’ve been fundraising to meet our annual budget and keep our operations running this summer. We are delighted to let you know that we’ve surpassed our mid-year appeal goal.
Because of you, we’ve raised $25,264, the most we’ve ever taken in at this time of year.
Thank you for supporting Image with your gifts and sustaining us with your attention. Because of you, we are able to continue publishing our journal, hosting the Glen Workshop, granting the Milton and Shaw fellowships, producing Good Letters, offering online classes, sharing the Image podcast, and more. We cannot say it enough: Thank you.
Your support makes our work possible. Your gifts keep us going.
The work continues. Our hearts are full. We are humbled and grateful.
Paul Anderson
Hannah Martin
Mary Mitchell
Elisabeth Ivey
Gregory Wolfe
Suzanne Wolfe
Now, here’s what we’re up to next...
We recently launched Issue 93...
In our newest issue, acclaimed filmmakers, directors, actors, and writers explore the resonances between faith and film. Read here.
We’re on our way to the Glen!
Next week we’ll be in Santa Fe for the Glen Workshop, and all week we'll be posting “Postcards from the Glen” as a way of saying wish you were here! Follow along!
Can you keep a secret?
You may have heard that we’re admirers of Flannery O’Connor. Have you also heard that our fall issue will feature the worldwide exclusive publication of her college journal? We’re planning on making an official announcement soon, but wanted to give you a sneak peek at the cover.
A bundle of words, just for you!
We’ve gathered some of our exclusive journal content that we’ve published for free on our website, now in one place for you to peruse. Go ahead, explore!
Dear friends,
I received two emails recently from writers you likely know and admire.
Like clockwork, I can expect an email from Annie Dillard a week after each new issue is published. Her response to issue #92 arrived right on schedule: “This is the best Image ever published. These writers stun me.”
Then, the day after the brilliant essayist and cultural critic Richard Rodriguez returned home from delivering Image’s Denise Levertov Award in typically mesmerizing fashion, he sent a thank-you note in which he wrote: “I would do anything for Image and its mission. (I didn’t need the award to take me up to Seattle.) The bravery of the journal, especially in these times of cultural, not to say religious, illiteracy, astonishes me.”
He continued: “The audience on Thursday night was your latest gift of encouragement—an audience so rare in my life these days—such passionate listening, such quiet attention, such generous souls. So, I thank you for them—the audience—the sort of people Image alone seems able to assemble in a dark time.”
I’m quoting Dillard and Rodriguez not simply to bask in their praise, but to point out that they are speaking about you as well as the Image team. You wouldn’t be receiving this mid-year appeal letter if you were not part of the conversation these two writers are celebrating.
As an Image reader, you are an essential partner in an ongoing dialogue of artistic creation and attentive reception that has brought us to what may be the most amazing year in this organization’s history (more on that in a minute).
In this age of short attention spans, when politics has turned into reality TV and the world is threatened by tribalistic fear and violence, you understand the importance of imagination, empathy, and inwardness which give rise to faith—faith in God and faith in the mystery of our common humanity.
Now we are asking for you to continue supporting this work—this deep conversation—with an old-fashioned currency: your hard-earned financial resources. Because it cannot take place without you.
Here’s a quick rundown on what is making this a banner year for Image:
- Issue #92 featured a previously untranslated short story by the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo, whose novel Silence was recently made into a film by Martin Scorsese; it also included a powerful essay on a meeting of North American and African visual artists in the ongoing process of seeking peace and reconciliation.
- The Image podcast, hosted by our very own Paul Anderson, made its debut with a nearly hour-long conversation with none other than Richard Rodriguez. Future episodes will feature conversations and readings with Gina Ochsner, Susanne Antonetta, Richard Chess, and more.
- Issue #93, guest edited by screenwriter/director Scott Teems (Rectify) and film critic Gareth Higgins, is entirely devoted to film, featuring insightful reflections from directors Mira Nair (Queen of Katwe), James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now), Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone), Rodrigo Garcia (Last Days in the Desert), Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange), actor Tony Hale (Arrested Development, Veep), critic Alissa Wilkinson (Vox.com), and many, many more. It will mail in July.
- The Glen Workshop this year is nearly full and its faculty include such luminaries as Kathleen Norris, Carolyn Forché, Over the Rhine, Randy Boyagoda, and others.
Our mid-year appeal is an essential part of our annual budget. We need to raise $25,000 this summer to maintain our operations.
Will you share not only the precious currency of your attention but of your financial treasure? In either case, what you are giving is yourself, the greatest gift of all. And in return for that miraculous gift we will continue to make Image flourish and nurture the hearts and minds of the community that cares for art, faith, and mystery.
Bless you for being such a vital part of that community.
Cordially,
