Liabilities / Assets
55th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Siviq Scores
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
0.00x
Liabilities / Revenue
56th percentile
Tied with the lowest-debt nonprofits in its peer group.
Net Margin
63rd percentile
Higher net margin than 63% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
79th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 79% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 45.5% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
95th percentile
Faster asset growth than 95% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
91st percentile
Faster revenue growth than 91% of similar nonprofits.
Balance Sheet
Assets
Up$3,980
Up $2,473 (+164%) from 2012
Net Assets
Up$3,980
Up $2,473 (+164%) from 2012
Liabilities
Flat$0
Flat from 2012
Revenue And Expenses
Revenue
Up$27,116
Up $12,772 (+89%) from 2012
Expenses
Up$24,643
Up $8,165 (+50%) from 2012
Net Income
Up$2,473
Up $4,607 (+216%) from 2012
Historical Trend
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Filing Snapshot
- Filing Period
- Jan 1, 2013 to Dec 31, 2013
- Signed
- May 15, 2014
- Return Version
- 2013v3.0
- Gross Receipts
- $27,116
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
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2013. Each ran for 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 2013 issue, titled "Got Fame?," offered essays about the impact of celebrity culture on authors and the publishing industry, as well as a spotlight on prose poetry. The Spring 2013 issue, "Deep into Nature," focused on nature writing, including creative nonfiction stories, think pieces, visual art, and author interviews about the impact of nature on creativity. In July and August, Talking Writing took a break from its weekly publishing schedule, offering a list of archive highlights for readers. During the summer, the magazine was switched to a new website platform with an attractive new design in order to accommodate more online traffic and to help with promotion. The Fall 2013 issue, "Distraction," launched on the new platform and featured a series of essays about multitasking, ADHD, social media overload, and other challenges for writers. The Holiday 2013 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 2013 included Connie Willis, J. Robert Lennon, and Terry Tempest Williams. The magazine included essays and stories by authors such as Richard Zimler, Fred Setterberg, Kelcey Parker, Ellen McGrath Smith, Steven Lewis, and Emily Toth. Talking Writing also began running cartoons as a regular feature in 2013. At the beginning of the year, Talking Writing averaged 10,000 readers a month. The magazine had 800 email and RSS subscribers, 1,000 Twitter followers, and 640 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 about a quarter-million annually. The magazine had more than 1,000 email and RSS subscribers, over 2,500 Twitter followers, and almost 2,500 Facebook fans. In 2013, several Talking Writing features, especially "Women Writers and Bad Interviews" and "What Should We Do About Wikipedia?," 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. | $20,000 | $22,210 |
| The annual conference of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) is the largest literary event in North America. At the 2013 conference in Boston, held March 6-March 9, Talking Writing was represented by Editor-in-Chief Martha Nichols, Fiction Editor David Cameron, Associate Editor Lorraine Berry, Administrative Editor Sheila Walsh, Production Editor Hadley Langosy, and other Talking Writing assistants and volunteers. The conference drew more than 12,000 attendees, 700 exhibitors, and 600 events. Talking Writing was one of the exhibitors at the conference Bookfair, and the magazine's attendees spent most of their time staffing 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 also 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. Small presses and literary magazines were approached as colleagues with whom to share new writers and information on best practices. Writing programs were introduced to Talking Writing as a possible publishing venue for their students and as a source of articles on writing for use in the classroom. More than 500 informational postcards, submissions flyers, and promotional bookmarks were distributed to writers, directors of writing programs, and small press editors. More than 150 new subscribers to Talking Writing were signed up. Later in 2013, Talking Writing submitted three proposals for panel presentations at the next AWP conference, and all three proposals were accepted: "Digital Lit," "Literary Politics," and "First-Person Journalism." | $0 | $1,584 |
| In March 2013, in conjunction with the AWP Conference, Talking Writing announced its second annual writing contest, offering prizes for creative nonfiction and for flash fiction. 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. Forty-six creative nonfiction writing submissions and fifteen flash fiction submissions were received. Entrants paid a $15 fee for each submission, garnering $795.60 for Talking Writing. These funds defrayed the costs of contest advertising and administration. The contest winners were announced in December 2013. The Talking Writing Prize for Creative Nonfiction, judged by Lorraine Berry, was awarded to Drew Ciccolo for "Paige." The Talking Writing Prize for Flash Fiction, judged by Joanne Avallon, was awarded to Charlotte Porter for "Deaf Uncle." Both prizewinners received publication of the winning work in Talking Writing and a $250 award. In 2013, there were two additional finalists in the Flash Fiction category, Missy-Marie Montgomery and Kathryn Gahl, who received publication in Talking Writing. | $0 | $849 |
Compensation and Service Providers
Employees
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Langosy | Executive Editor | FT | $12,327 | - | $12,327 |
| Michael Dornbrook | President | - | $0 | - | - |
| Elizabeth Langosy | Treasurer | - | $0 | - | - |
| Wendy Glaas | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Michael Steinberg | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Cynthia Staples | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Lynya Floyd | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Martha Nichols | Editor In Chief | FT | $0 | - | - |
| Bianca Garcia | Clerk | - | $0 | - | - |
Filing and Contact Details
Filer
- EIN
- 45-3264620
- Phone
- 6178359410
Signing Officer
- Name
- Martha Nichols
- Title
- Editor in Chief
- Phone
- 6178359410
- Signed
- 2014-05-15
Supplemental Narrative
Additional Explanations
Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16
“Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Advertising and promotion - $850.76; Fees for fundraising (PayPal, Foundation Directory) and submission manager accounts - $364; AWP Conference registration and expenses - $1,584.09; TW Contest prizes - $500; Website - $251.40; Legal - $70”
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| IRS990EZ/ProgramSrvcAccomplishmentGrp/DescriptionProgramSrvcAccomTxt | 0 | 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 2013. Each ran for 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 2013 issue, titled "Got Fame?," offered essays about the impact of celebrity culture on authors and the publishing industry, as well as a spotlight on prose poetry. The Spring 2013 issue, "Deep into Nature," focused on nature writing, including creative nonfiction stories, think pieces, visual art, and author interviews about the impact of nature on creativity. In July and August, Talking Writing took a break from its weekly publishing schedule, offering a list of archive highlights for readers. During the summer, the magazine was switched to a new website platform with an attractive new design in order to accommodate more online traffic and to help with promotion. The Fall 2013 issue, "Distraction," launched on the new platform and featured a series of essays about multitasking, ADHD, social media overload, and other challenges for writers. The Holiday 2013 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 2013 included Connie Willis, J. Robert Lennon, and Terry Tempest Williams. The magazine included essays and stories by authors such as Richard Zimler, Fred Setterberg, Kelcey Parker, Ellen McGrath Smith, Steven Lewis, and Emily Toth. Talking Writing also began running cartoons as a regular feature in 2013. At the beginning of the year, Talking Writing averaged 10,000 readers a month. The magazine had 800 email and RSS subscribers, 1,000 Twitter followers, and 640 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 about a quarter-million annually. The magazine had more than 1,000 email and RSS subscribers, over 2,500 Twitter followers, and almost 2,500 Facebook fans. In 2013, several Talking Writing features, especially "Women Writers and Bad Interviews" and "What Should We Do About Wikipedia?," 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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| IRS990ScheduleA/PublicOrganization170Ind | 0 | X |
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| IRS990ScheduleA/TaxRevLeviedOrgnztnlBnft170Grp/CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt | 0 | 0 |
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| IRS990ScheduleA/TotalCalendarYear170Grp/CurrentTaxYearMinus1YearAmt | 0 | 14344 |
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| IRS990ScheduleA/TotalCalendarYear170Grp/CurrentTaxYearMinus3YearsAmt | 0 | 0 |
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| IRS990ScheduleA/UnrelatedBusinessNetIncm170Grp/CurrentTaxYearMinus2YearsAmt | 0 | 0 |
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| IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorUSAddress/AddressLine2 | 0 | RESTRICTED |
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| IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/ContributorUSAddress/State | 0 | RESTRICTED |
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| IRS990ScheduleB/ContributorInformationGrp/TotalContributionsAmt | 0 | RESTRICTED |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/ExplanationTxt | 0 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 - Advertising and promotion - $850.76; Fees for fundraising (PayPal, Foundation Directory) and submission manager accounts - $364; AWP Conference registration and expenses - $1,584.09; TW Contest prizes - $500; Website - $251.40; Legal - $70 |
| IRS990ScheduleO/SupplementalInformationDetail/FormAndLineReferenceDesc | 0 | Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 |
| ReturnHeader/BuildTS | 0 | 2015-11-30 17:44:51Z |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/PersonNm | 0 | Martha Nichols |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/PersonTitleTxt | 0 | Editor in Chief |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/PhoneNum | 0 | 6178359410 |
| ReturnHeader/BusinessOfficerGrp/SignatureDt | 0 | 2014-05-15 |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/BusinessName/BusinessNameLine1 | 0 | TALKING WRITING |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/BusinessNameControlTxt | 0 | TALK |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/EIN | 0 | 453264620 |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/PhoneNum | 0 | 6178359410 |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/USAddress/AddressLine1 | 0 | PO Box 442014 |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/USAddress/City | 0 | West Somerville |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/USAddress/State | 0 | MA |
| ReturnHeader/Filer/USAddress/ZIPCode | 0 | 02144 |
| ReturnHeader/ReturnTs | 0 | 2014-05-15T10:08:12-07:00 |
| ReturnHeader/ReturnTypeCd | 0 | 990EZ |
| ReturnHeader/TaxPeriodBeginDt | 0 | 2013-01-01 |
| ReturnHeader/TaxPeriodEndDt | 0 | 2013-12-31 |
| ReturnHeader/TaxYr | 0 | 2013 |
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2013 • Form 990EZDetailed filing. Detailed filing data is available for this year.
- Assets
- $3,980
- Liabilities
- $0
- Net assets
- $3,980
- Revenue
- $27,116
- Expenses
- $24,643
- Net income
- $2,473