Civic Intelligence

Talking Writing

EIN 45-3264620 • 501(c)3 • West Somerville, MA

Profile

Talking Writing Inc. supports writers and the literary community, primarily through the publication of Talking Writing online literary magazine, which is free to all. The magazine publishes essays and opinion pieces on specific themes that matter to writers, as well as interviews with well-known authors. Talking Writing also solicits and publishes fiction, poetry, and personal essays from the general writing community. The magazine is an educational resource for creative writing and journalism teachers, providing material that complements and adds value to writing curricula. By providing a mechanism for online comments from readers and authors, Talking Writing fosters an ongoing dialogue about writing and literary culture.

PO Box 442014West Somerville, MA 02144

talkingwriting.com

Siviq Scores

Precomputed percentiles relative to similar nonprofits. These scores are descriptive rather than judgmental.

Liabilities / Assets

60th percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2014

Liabilities / Revenue

62nd percentile

0.00x

Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2014

Net Margin

71st percentile

17%

Higher net margin than 71% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2014

Top Officer Pay

81st percentile

$0

Higher top officer pay than 81% of similar nonprofits.

Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Source year 2014

Asset Growth

90th percentile

79%

Faster asset growth than 90% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2013 to 2014

Revenue Growth

26th percentile

-31%

Faster revenue growth than 26% of similar nonprofits.

501(c)3 • <$500k nonprofits • Annualized from 2013 to 2014

Balance Sheet
Liabilities / Assets60th percentile

Assets

Up

$7,108

Up $3,128 (+79%) from 2013

Liabilities

Flat

$0

Flat from 2013

Net Assets

Up

$7,108

Up $3,128 (+79%) from 2013

Operations
Liabilities / Revenue62nd percentileNet Margin71st percentile

Revenue

Down

$18,582

Down $8,534 (-31%) from 2013

Expenses

Down

$15,454

Down $9,189 (-37%) from 2013

Net Income

Up

$3,128

Up $655 (+26%) from 2013

Trend Graphs

Balance Sheet Trend

Asset Growth90th percentile

Grouped bars show assets, liabilities, and net assets across loaded filings.

$8.0K$6.0K$4.0K$2.0K$0Assets 2011: $3,641Liabilities 2011: $02011Assets 2012: $1,507Liabilities 2012: $0Net Assets 2012: $1,5072012Assets 2013: $3,980Liabilities 2013: $0Net Assets 2013: $3,9802013Assets 2014: $7,108Liabilities 2014: $0Net Assets 2014: $7,1082014

Highlighted filing

2014

Assets$7,108
Liabilities$0
Net Assets$7,108
Open 2014 Filing

Operations Trend

Revenue Growth26th percentile

Revenue, expenses, and net income by year, with the latest filing highlighted.

$30K$20K$10K$0-$10KRevenue 2011: $6,050Expenses 2011: $2,409Net Income 2011: $3,6412011Revenue 2012: $14,344Expenses 2012: $16,478Net Income 2012: -$2,1342012Revenue 2013: $27,116Expenses 2013: $24,643Net Income 2013: $2,4732013Revenue 2014: $18,582Expenses 2014: $15,454Net Income 2014: $3,1282014

Highlighted filing

2014

Revenue$18,582
Expenses$15,454
Net Income$3,128
Open 2014 Filing

Filings

Most recent year

2014 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.

Open filing
Assets
$7,108
Liabilities
$0
Net assets
$7,108
Revenue
$18,582
Expenses
$15,454
Net income
$3,128
Balance SheetOperations
YearAssetsLiabilitiesNet AssetsRevenueExpensesNet Income
2014Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$7.11$0.00$7.11$18.6$15.5$3.13
2013Detailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.$3.98$0.00$3.98$27.1$24.6$2.47
2012Facts available. Structured filing facts are available, but richer extracted sections are limited.$1.51$0.00$1.51$14.3$16.5$2.13
2011Summary only. Only limited summary data is available for this year.$3.64$0.00$6.05$2.41$3.64
Latest Filing Detail
Jump To
Filing Snapshot
Filing Period
Jan 1, 2014 to Dec 31, 2014
Signed
May 14, 2015
Return Version
2014v5.0
Gross Receipts
$18,582
Mission and Program Overview

Mission

Talking Writing Inc. supports writers and the literary community, primarily through the publication of Talking Writing online literary magazine, which is free to all. The magazine publishes essays and opinion pieces on specific themes that matter to writers, as well as interviews with well-known authors. Talking Writing also solicits and publishes fiction, poetry, and personal essays from the general writing community. The magazine is an educational resource for creative writing and journalism teachers, providing material that complements and adds value to writing curricula. By providing a mechanism for online comments from readers and authors, Talking Writing fosters an ongoing dialogue about writing and literary culture.

Program Services

DescriptionGrantsExpenses
Talking Writing, a free online literary magazine for writers, is the primary activity of Talking Writing, Inc. Four issues of the magazine were published in 2014. Each ran for approximately two months, publishing new pieces every week of an issue cycle and including personal essays, opinion pieces, fiction, poetry, author interviews, regular columns, and work by visual artists. The Winter 2014 issue, titled "Do We Need Critics?," offered essays about the prognosis for literary criticism in the digital error, as well as a spotlight on the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser. The Spring 2014 issue, "Family Stories," focused on creative nonfiction pieces and fictional accounts of family life, including an interview with Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt Vonnegut. In July and August, Talking Writing took a break from its weekly publishing schedule. The Fall 2014 issue, "Money!" featured a series of essays about the difficulties of making a living today as a literary writer or journalist. The Holiday 2014 issue, "Writing and Faith," offered personal essays and poems about the ways faith helps writers create meaning out of life's big questions. Well-known writers interviewed in Talking Writing in 2014 included Mark Vonnegut, Caitlin Moran, and Chana Bloch. The magazine included essays and stories by authors and poets such as Aimee Phan, Ron MacLean, Alicia Ostriker, Steve Adams, and Katie Cortese. In 2014, Talking Writing launched the TW Reading Series, which republishes selected print-only work from small and university presses to help it find a wider audience. Authors published in the TW Reading Series in 2014 included Andrew Lam, William Least Heat-Moon, Kim Triedman, and William Todd Seabrook. At the beginning of the year, Talking Writing averaged 9,000 readers a month. The magazine had 1,100 email and RSS subscribers, 2,500 Twitter followers, and 2,500 Facebook fans. By the end of the year, Talking Writing maintained about the same number of monthly readers, but had increased its total page-view count to more than a quarter-million annually. The magazine made modest gains in email and RSS subscribers, Twitter followers, and Facebook fans. In 2014, several Talking Writing features, especially "Why Mainstream Critics Fail Writers of Color," were widely distributed via social media on the Web, sparking discussion about important topics that now matter increasingly to the practice of digital literature and journalism.$15,984$17,200
In February 2014, in conjunction with the AWP Conference, Talking Writing announced its third annual writing contest, offering prizes for flash nonfiction and for advice writing. The goals of the annual contest are to celebrate the diversity online of original, personally driven writing and to acknowledge and support writers from all backgrounds and at all stages of their careers. Eighty-two flash nonfiction writing submissions and eighteen advice writing submissions were received. Entrants paid a $15 fee for each submission, garnering $1500 (less the service fees paid to Submittable) for Talking Writing. These funds defrayed the costs of contest advertising and administration. The contest winners were announced in December 2014. The Talking Writing Prize for Flash Nonfiction, judged by Dinty W. Moore, was awarded to Stephen Brown for "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?" The Talking Writing Prize for Advice Writing, judged by Emily Toth, was awarded to Ruth Carmel for "Misdirection." Both prizewinners received publication of the winning work in Talking Writing and a $250 award. In 2014, there were two additional finalists in the Advice Writing category, Lale Davidson and Susan Terris, whose work will be published in Talking Writing in 2015.$0$860
The annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) is the largest literary event in North America. At the 2014 conference in Seattle, held February 26-March 1, Talking Writing was represented by Editor-in-Chief Martha Nichols, Creative Nonfiction Editor Lorraine Berry, Poetry Editor Carol Dorf, Features Editor Karen Ohlson, Board Clerk Bianca Garcia, and other Talking Writing volunteers. The conference drew more than 13,000 attendees, 700 exhibitors, and 500 events. Talking Writing organized and staffed three well-attended panel presentations at this conference: "Digital Lit," "Literary Politics," and "First-Person Journalism." Talking Writing was also one of the exhibitors at the conference Bookfair, and the magazine's attendees staffed the table, with the goal of generating interest in Talking Writing's offerings for the writing community, all available at no charge. Talking Writing staff live-tweeted several events each day of the conference in order to distribute information about it via social media to readers and writers around the world. More than 200 submissions flyers and promotional bookmarks were distributed to writers, directors of writing programs, and small press editors. Talking Writing also co-hosted an offsite Digital Literature Reception with Carve Magazine and Solstice Literary Magazine.$0$522
Compensation and Service Providers
Top Officer Pay81st percentile

Employees

NameTitleFull / Part TimeBaseOtherTotal
Wendy GlaasDirector-$0--
Michael SteinbergDirector-$0--
Martha NicholsEditor In ChiefFT$0--
Elizabeth LangosyExecutive Editor-$0--
Bianca GarciaClerk-$0--
Mark AllenBoard President And Treasurer-$0--
Susan CassidyDirector-$0--
William GrayDirector-$0--
Filing and Contact Details

Filer

Filer Name
Talking Writing
EIN
45-3264620
Phone
6178359410
Address
PO Box 442014, West Somerville, MA 02144

Signing Officer

Name
Martha Nichols
Title
Editor in Chief
Phone
6178359410
Signed
2015-05-14
Supplemental Narrative

Additional Explanations

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8

“Other income is from advertising on the website (via Litbreaker), sales of T shirts online (via CafePress), and income generated by a Booster crowdsourcing campaign through sale of T shirts.”

Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16

“Talking Writing operates online, so its operations expenses ($471.73) are as follows: service fees for Web hosting and Submissions manager; fee for maintaining a post-office box; and subscriptions and resource books. Talking Writing business expenses ($296.37) include fees paid to PayPal for processing donations and for filing Massachusetts State taxes. Program expenses are for annual contests ($859.54), including advertising to promote the contests and prizes awarded for them, and for attending and participating in the annual AWP conference ($522.50).”

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IRS990EZ/PrimaryExemptPurposeTxt0Talking Writing Inc. supports writers and the literary community, primarily through the publication of Talking Writing online literary magazine, which is free to all. The magazine publishes essays and opinion pieces on specific themes that matter to writers, as well as interviews with well-known authors. Talking Writing also solicits and publishes fiction, poetry, and personal essays from the general writing community. The magazine is an educational resource for creative writing and journalism teachers, providing material that complements and adds value to writing curricula. By providing a mechanism for online comments from readers and authors, Talking Writing fosters an ongoing dialogue about writing and literary culture.
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IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt0Talking Writing, a free online literary magazine for writers, is the primary activity of Talking Writing, Inc. Four issues of the magazine were published in 2014. Each ran for approximately two months, publishing new pieces every week of an issue cycle and including personal essays, opinion pieces, fiction, poetry, author interviews, regular columns, and work by visual artists. The Winter 2014 issue, titled "Do We Need Critics?," offered essays about the prognosis for literary criticism in the digital error, as well as a spotlight on the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser. The Spring 2014 issue, "Family Stories," focused on creative nonfiction pieces and fictional accounts of family life, including an interview with Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt Vonnegut. In July and August, Talking Writing took a break from its weekly publishing schedule. The Fall 2014 issue, "Money!" featured a series of essays about the difficulties of making a living today as a literary writer or journalist. The Holiday 2014 issue, "Writing and Faith," offered personal essays and poems about the ways faith helps writers create meaning out of life's big questions. Well-known writers interviewed in Talking Writing in 2014 included Mark Vonnegut, Caitlin Moran, and Chana Bloch. The magazine included essays and stories by authors and poets such as Aimee Phan, Ron MacLean, Alicia Ostriker, Steve Adams, and Katie Cortese. In 2014, Talking Writing launched the TW Reading Series, which republishes selected print-only work from small and university presses to help it find a wider audience. Authors published in the TW Reading Series in 2014 included Andrew Lam, William Least Heat-Moon, Kim Triedman, and William Todd Seabrook. At the beginning of the year, Talking Writing averaged 9,000 readers a month. The magazine had 1,100 email and RSS subscribers, 2,500 Twitter followers, and 2,500 Facebook fans. By the end of the year, Talking Writing maintained about the same number of monthly readers, but had increased its total page-view count to more than a quarter-million annually. The magazine made modest gains in email and RSS subscribers, Twitter followers, and Facebook fans. In 2014, several Talking Writing features, especially "Why Mainstream Critics Fail Writers of Color," were widely distributed via social media on the Web, sparking discussion about important topics that now matter increasingly to the practice of digital literature and journalism.
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IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt0Other income is from advertising on the website (via Litbreaker), sales of T shirts online (via CafePress), and income generated by a Booster crowdsourcing campaign through sale of T shirts.
IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt1Talking Writing operates online, so its operations expenses ($471.73) are as follows: service fees for Web hosting and Submissions manager; fee for maintaining a post-office box; and subscriptions and resource books. Talking Writing business expenses ($296.37) include fees paid to PayPal for processing donations and for filing Massachusetts State taxes. Program expenses are for annual contests ($859.54), including advertising to promote the contests and prizes awarded for them, and for attending and participating in the annual AWP conference ($522.50).
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