In just under two years, we’ve built Cascadia Magazine into an award-winning place for in-depth journalism, fiction, essays, and poetry from across the Pacific Northwest. We offer you meaningful writing on issues important to the Cascadia bioregion.

We need your help during our Fall 2019 Fund Drive to help us continue these successes:

• Cascadia Magazine publishes award-winning environmental reporting on issues ranging from British Columbia salmon farming to US Navy pollution in Puget Sound. We’re thrilled that writer Paul Lask received a first-place honor from the Society of Professional Journalists for his reporting on a team of women studying climate change effects on Oregon forests.

• We’ve given a voice to a diverse, talented group of poets and writers. Just a few highlights include Sharma Shields’s moving, honest essay about facing life with MS and Fiona Tinwei Lam’s lovely poem about Canuck, Vancouver’s most famous crow.

• Cascadia Magazine hosts a variety of public readings and panel discussions featuring journalists, photographers, fiction writers, and poets. If you weren’t able to attend our recent “Evening of Words & Ideas” in Seattle, you can listen to the whole event online at KUOW’s Speakers Forum.

• We provide a platform for intense, personal writing that shapes public opinion. Paul Nelson’s poem “Elegy for Tahlequah’s Calf,” one of the most popular pieces we’ve published, helped people deal with the grief and anger they feel about the plight of orcas in the Salish Sea.

• You’ll find a quirky, distinctly Northwest mix of articles at Cascadia Magazine: everything from a profile of Native American singer-songwriter Black Belt Eagle Scout to an examination of racial equity in Cascadia’s legal pot industry. You’ll even find a column offering hiking suggestions, because we love the outdoors here in the Pacific Northwest!

• We publish a fun, informative email newsletter, Cascadia Daily, that offers a snapshot of news, environmental reporting, arts profiles, fiction, and poetry from all corners of the region.

Cascadia Magazine is at crossroads. In two short years we’ve done something incredible: built a vibrant, meaningful publication in an era when media consolidation continues to shrink opportunities to read in-depth, quality writing.

But we need your help to continue publishing.

If you value great writing and photography from this region we love, please take a moment to show your support by making a donation during Cascadia Magazine’s Fall Fund Drive throughout October 2019. You can donate at any level you’re comfortable with, and recurring monthly contributions are especially appreciated.

If you contribute at the $200 level, you’ll receive a printed broadside of a poem by former Washington state poet laureate Tod Marshall. And at the $400 level, donors receive a gorgeous full-color map of the Cascadia bioregion by acclaimed cartographer David McCloskey.

Thank you for supporting great writing from the Pacific Northwest.

Andrew Engelson

Editor

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