Gentle Readers,

Welcome to the final week of our fundraising mega-issue! Thank you all so much for your kind donations thus far! We're almost there—just need another $200, and author payments for the remaining 2011 issues are covered.

And don't forget—we'll be holding a draw this weekend for all donors—results announced on Monday, July 4th. For every $10 you donate, you get an entry into the draw.

• complete sets of ChiZine Publications ebooks
• complete sets of ChiZine Publications trade paperbacks
• free entries into the CZP/Rannu Fund competition for next year
• free memberships to the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium on October 15
• signed books & bumf from various authors
• limited signed HC editions of Tony Burgess's Pontypool Changes Everything
• CZP t-shirts and mousepads
• story submission to ChiZine.com directly to Managing Fiction Editor, Gord Zajac (bypassing the slush pile)
• novel/collection submission to CZP directly to Co-Publisher Brett Savory (bypassing the slush pile)
• novel/collection submission to CZP directly to Co-Publisher Sandra Kasturi (bypassing the slush pile)

Donations that qualify for the draw will be counted up til midnight July 1st, when the mega-issue comes down. But of course, we're still happy to accept any and all donations at any time after that too!!

We'd like to thank all the amazing ChiZine.com and CZP alumni/authors and former contest judges who so generously donated their fiction and poetry to our fundraiser. We couldn't have done it without you.

Thank you to the ChiZine.com staff, old and new, who have laboured tirelessly, for little or no pay, and who have done so quite cheerfully for a dark genre magazine! The amount of decapitations per annum has hit an all-time low!

And a particularly big thank you to Barry King, our Revered Web Dude, who's been keeping this beast running, and been astonishingly patient with all of us.

Lastly, and most importantly, thank you to all of you, our readers. Thank you for coming back to ChiZine.com and continuing to read this zine for 14 years now. Thanks for keeping us going.

Hope you enjoy this final week of the mega-issue, and stay tuned for the new regular issue on July 1st!

Sandra Kasturi & Brett Alexander Savory

This week, we have new fiction from Gary A. Braunbeck, Jesse Bullington, Elizabeth Bear, Seth Lindberg, A. M. Muffaz, S. Boyd Taylor, Amber Van Dyk, David Niall Wilson, and Mehitobel Wilson and new poetry from Peter Bloch-Hansen, Carolyn Clink, Susan A. Manchester, Helen Marshall, Mark McLaughlin, Kurt Newton, Tom Piccirilli, and Steve Vernon.

We also have two new book reviews from William D. Gagliani and Chris Hallock.