[Cwgrad-announcements] Introducing CRATE's staff and advertising

[Ky-Phong Tran]

CRATE update

1.  This is a bit late, but please allow me to congratulate and welcome the new 2006-07 CRATE Editorial staff and introduce our new website at the same time.  http://crate.ucr.edu/crate_staff.html
Many thanks to Carly Kimmel for her long hours on the re-design of the website.

2.  CRATE is looking for advertisers and donations.  If you know of advertisers that would like to reach out to our mailing list, please send them this email (see below for more info).  And also, being the end of the annual tax year, CRATE is eligible to receive tax-deductible donations.  (Tax ID no. 95 600 6142) Checks can be made out to UC Regents, directed to UCR's CRATE, and given or sent to Yvonne Howard at 900 University Avenue, 1607 HMNSS Riverside, California 92521.  
 
Thanks to everyone for helping us put out the best magazine we can and representing the program in a good light.

Ky-Phong Tran
Editor
CRATE

CRATE--UC Riverside’s MFA Literary Magazine

QUICK FACTS
Mission
•	To create a professional-quality, nationally-distributed magazine that engages UC Riverside in a conversation with contemporary American literature

•	To promote literacy and literature in the Riverside community through our Undergraduate Internship Program, Community and Workshop Series at local schools, after-school programs, community centers, and senior centers

•	To provide a venue for students to learn the editorial process and magazine production

•	To serve as an ambassador for the Riverside community:  the city, the university, and the new MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts

Distribution 
•	The top 25 English programs as ranked by US News and World Report
•	The top 25 MFA in Creative Writing Programs as ranked by US News and World Report
•	West Coast English and Creative Writing Programs 
•	Independent bookstores along the West Coast, including Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco Bay Area
•	Independent bookstores in Southern California (Skylight Books, Vromans, Acres of Books)
•	Chain (Barnes and Noble, Borders) and independent bookstores in Riverside
•	Riverside libraries
•	UC Riverside campus
•	West Coast literary journals (Santa Monica Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train)
•	West Coast small presses
•	Acclaimed Writers Conferences (Napa Valley, Squaw Valley, Seawanee, and Bread Loaf)
•	UC Riverside release party and reading (April 2007)
•	Los Angeles release party and reading (April 2007)
•	Community events in collaboration with Gluck Fellows program

Magazine
•	72 perfect bound pages in a magazine-style size and format
•	Front and back page in color, color pages for art work and photography within
•	Lay out and design by award-winning graphic designer Anne Nguyen, winner of a Oppenheim Award
•	An experienced 15-person staff of graduate students that has worked on dozens of books, anthologies, collections, and chapbooks
•	6 staff members dedicated specifically to outreach and distribution

Advertising Rates 
•	$400 full page
•	$250 half page
•	$175 third page
•	$125 quarter page
•	Ad design rate included 
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