Thank You to the DreamForge Magazine Team, volunteers all, without whom none of this would be possible:

Scot Noel (Publisher and Editor-in-Chief)          
Jane Noel (Graphic Design, Layout & Social Media Support)
Jane Lindskold (Senior Advisor & Creative Consultant)
Henry Gasko (Editorial Assistant)
Catherine Weaver (Editorial Assistant)
Our profoundest thanks to Catherine Weaver and Henry Gasko, who serve as our volunteer Editorial Assistants. Each has served selflessly to help us review and select stories, respond to submissions, and scour selected works for typos and grammatical glitches, making DreamForge as polished as it can be, and helping us continue to put out a great product.


Thanks also to all those who supported us financially through our 2022 Kickstarter and through regular Patreon support, especially our DreamCaster Writers Support Group. Your support provides the funds we need to buy great stories!
Thank you to the First Line Readers who helped us in selecting a wonderful range of stories for our issues this year, and for their exceptional dedication and passionate attention. In alphabetical order, our most recently active FLRs are:


Mackenzie Autumn
Storm Blakely
Jarrid Cantway
Daniel Cojocaru
Emily Dauvin
Brandi Dixon
Alecia Flores
Rita Flores
Kelly Fox
Henry Gasko
N.V. Haskell
Anja Hata
Todd Honeycutt
S.M. Isaac
Charles Kiley
Nicole Kosar
Anna Madden
Jamie D. Munro
Jessica Rahden
Indiana Tilford
Rachel Unger
Catherine Weaver
And Thank You To Our Founders

We’re bestowing the honor of “Founder” on all those who subscribed to DreamForge (or pledged at the subcription levels on Kickstarter), either online or in print, before the end of February 2019. These are our treasured supporters who risked their dollars on a full year of DreamForge Magazine before we had a page in print to show for it.

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