Maria Peña's Give OUT Day Fundraiser for GCLS

The Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) is a non-profit, volunteer organization whose mission is to increase the visibility and integrity of literature about women loving women.

Your donations will help us to do three things: 

First, we'll be able to fund an additional 2022 scholarship to our writing academy, a nine-month intensive program for new or relatively new writers designed to hone the skills of anyone seeking to write excellent women-loving-women literature and trans/nonbinary/genderfluid narratives. 

Second, through your generosity, when we meet our fundraising goal we will also be able to offer nine full ticket scholarships to our 18th Annual Conference to be held in Albuquerque, NM in July of 2022. We typically raise the money for writing academy and conference scholarships at our annual con gatherings, but because of the Coronavirus pandemic, we've been unable to meet in a live setting since our 2019 conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Money raised in 2019 funded a 2020 academy scholarship and defrayed the cost of the virtual conference we held in 2020 which was free to attend and open to the public.

Finally, while we've always recorded important events at our live conferences for our members and their guests who were unable to attend to view later, we've never been able to livestream these events. A portion of your donations will allow us to buy the equipment and software necessary to enable us to livestream those events as they happen.