If you’re a regular visitor to The Curator, you’ll know that it’s been silent around here since the end of December. That’s because we’re on hiatus, with the possibility that we will not resume publication of new work. That it’s taken this long to officially announce that fact is not ideal, but it’s been that kind of year.

The work of The Curator for the last six years or so has been completed by volunteers. While proud of the prose and poetry we’ve been able to share with our readers, we’ve often felt overwhelmed by the responsibility of putting out two to three pieces of new writing every week while also balancing domestic life, work, and other responsibilities. In the end, we were reduced to just two volunteers from, at its peak, a team of eight. It became too much for us.

The money we earned from our Patreon account has been used to pay hundreds of writers. We’ve been grateful that we’ve been able to do that. The money left over will be used to keep the domain name and WordPress account alive so that the thirteen+ years of writing The Curator has published will remain available to our readers. At least until that money runs out.

It may be that The Curator will rise again and publish beautifully crafted prose and poetry. We hope that’s the case. For now, we wish to thank anyone who has contributed work to the magazine and all who have read it.