Fall 2021 Almanac Accolades Sustaining Membership

Almanac Accolades are individuals, like you, who offer generous monthly contributions that support the work of Saint Paul Almanac creatives. This regular support helps us to plan for upcoming Almanac volumes, such as Volume 13, which is scheduled to launch by October 2022. 

Our recurring donors making monthly gifts of $5.00 or more receive a membership card and are acknowledged at Almanac launch parties. Donors who join the membership during September 21 - October 21, 2021 will receive a variety of benefits based on their level of giving, including back issues of Almanacs, writing workshops, and a copy of Vol. 13 signed by the author of their choice!

Giving monthly is easy and affordable!

You select the amount that works for you, knowing that your ongoing support makes a major impact. Your first sustaining donation occurs immediately and then on the same day of subsequent months. And you’re in control of your giving! You may change or stop your recurring donations at any time. While you’re giving monthly, your membership stays active. 

Get the satisfaction of knowing you’re investing in the noteworthy publications you’ve come to expect from Saint Paul Almanac.

Thank you!

Let us know which of the following authors you would like to sign your Vol. 13.

Colleen Casey "Lowertown Haiku."

Colleen Casey lives in a tiny sky-blue bungalow near Como Lake. She has turned her little yard into a paradise for birds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators by planting it full of Native wildflowers that bloom spring through fall. Of mixed Dakota and Euro American heritages, she sees herself as a person of crosscurrents and confluences and believes we are all related.

Ty Chapman, “Minnesota Nice”

Ty Chapman is a Twin Cities based puppeteer, poet, curator, and storyteller. His upcoming works include writing a children’s book through the Loft’s “Mirrors and Windows” program and creating a one-man shadow puppet and marionette show for “Puppet Lab”.

Alia Jeraj, “Sitting in Silence”

Alia Jeraj is a vocalist, writer, and educator in the Twin Cities. She has performed with groups including Mixed Precipitation, Artemis, and Nanilo. Her bylines include Pollen, the Twin Cities Daily Planet, and American Craft. By day she tutors math at a local high school.

David Mendez, "Tell me Mariposa."

David Mendez is a writer from St. Paul’s West Side working in education and in the community. He draws upon his blue collar roots and Chicano experience in his works. He hopes to inspire others to take up the pen and share their stories with others.

 Yara Omer, “The Day the River Smiled”

Yara Omer is an Educator. She works on the West Side and lives in the Twin Cities. Yara writes in English and in Arabic.

Debra Stone, “Mama has passed on”

Debra J Stone writes short stories, poetry and essays. She lives in Robbinsdale with her husband and German boxer, Ziggy. Currently she writes a memoir interweaving research and oral family history of enslavement, migration and place.

Clarence White, “Miss Hallie Q. Brown 1959”

Clarence White is a writer, editor, typewriter poet, curator and arts administrator. He is the co-curator of the 2016 and 2017 Banfill-Locke Reading Series and Silverwood Park’s 2014 Art on Foot. He is a past Givens Foundation Retreat Fellow and was a finalist for mnartists.org’s flash fiction contest miniStories. Clarence is the Associate Director of the East Side Freedom Library.

Lisa Yankton, “Rainbow Skeleton Warrior” (Bio from previous book) Lisa Yankton is a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota, is a community organizer, educator, writer, and mother. At night she can be found star-gazing instead of wishing on a star. Her community activities include serving as a juror for the Saint Paul Almanac sidewalk poetry contest, blogging for the Minnesota Book Awards, teaching at MCTC, and coordinating the Dakota Nationwide Conference.

Campaign art by Ron Duffy, Almanac 2013