Join Our Board

After Dinner Conversation is establishing its inaugural CAPACITY-BUILDING BOARD and inviting 2-4 volunteer board members through a public call. This will complete our initial request, totaling 6-8 board members, who will collaborate to help us achieve fiscal sustainability.

About Us:

Founded in 2019, independent and focused on developing thoughtful conversations. After Dinner Conversation is an independent, nonprofit, literary magazine that focuses on short story fiction that encourages philosophical and ethical discussions with friends, family, and students. We believe humanity is improved by values grounded in truth discovered through intentional reflection and respectful debate.

Founded in 2019, we have grown considerably over the last five years, from a small project publishing short digital stories on Amazon, to an award-winning nonprofit publishing a monthly print and digital magazine, two podcasts, a Substack, a ten new books a year. We sort through and select short stories from over 1,000 submissions a year and are available digitally on every major platform and most digital libraries.

On January 1, 2023, After Dinner Conversation became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This allows donors to make tax-deductible donations to support our work and makes us eligible to apply for grants! We have already applied for, and were granted, a Google Ads grant of $10,000 a month.

Please consider joining After Dinner Conversation as a capacity-building board member. Board member responsibilities include:

Advocating for After Dinner Conversation by boosting awareness for the work we publish and supporting calls to action during our annual fundraisers and membership drives
Acting as a liaison between After Dinner Conversation leadership and your personal and professional contacts to help us secure new partnerships, sponsorships, or appropriate advertising opportunities
Sharing your expertise in areas of fundraising/development, promotion, event planning, and/or other aspects of the work that goes into creating a sustainable indie publication
Committing to attending 1–2 hour virtual meetings twice a year with the publisher and editor-in-chief in attendance.
Committing to some combination of raising or donating to our annual summer fundraising drive or by the end of the fiscal year (December 31). *If you are not able to meet the minimum, good faith efforts to reach individual goals will be acceptable.
Committing to an initial 18-month term on After Dinner Conversation’s capacity-building board. Subsequent board terms will be 12-month commitments with the option to sit on the Board for up to five years before moving to Capacity-Building Board Member Emeritus status

Benefits of capacity-building board membership include:

Gratitude of After Dinner Conversation team and all our past and future contributors for your commitment to thoughtful conversation
Behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience with the many moving parts and volunteer work that keeps magazines like ours going—we’ll share both our struggles and our successes
The opportunity to actively connect with our team and your fellow board members as we work together to build a better After Dinner Conversation
Invites to all of our in-person and virtual events
Recognition in the After Dinner Conversation magazine and website.
Complimentary print and digital subscription to our monthly magazine for the duration of your time on the board

If you are interested in serving, email our Editor-In-Chief at editor@afterdinnerconversation.com for consideration.

A special thanks to The Rumpus, a literary magazine we greatly admire, for providing assistance in showing us the way on how to set something like this up and for the template for this call to action.