For those of you who appreciate the beauty of a well-maintained spreadsheet, here for your enjoyment and edification is the post-con financial report for Narrativity 2026.
For those who’d rather not see how the sausage is made, perhaps you’d care to watch a ball rolling around the sides of a Penrose triangle?
Membership was pretty comparable to the past couple of years. Donations poured in during and after the con; to everyone who chipped in, whether a little or a lot, thank you for helping to keep our little con chugging along!
For comparison, previous years’ reports can be found here: 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
| Starting Balance: | $1,013.31 |
| Revenue | |
| Memberships | $2,340.00 |
| Workshop Fees | n/a |
| Donations (all sources) | $3,557.55 |
| Merchandise | $44.69 |
| Other Income | – |
| Total Revenue | $5,942.24 |
| Expenditures | |
| Hotel | $3,088.12 |
| Workshop | n/a |
| PayPal & Stripe fees | $96.03 |
| Consuite (durable goods) | $18.63 |
| Consuite (consumables) | $902.14 |
| Consuite (misc.) | $42.00 |
| Printing | $217.48 |
| Meeting Supplies – badgeholders, etc. | $132.70 |
| Meeting Supplies – other | $28.92 |
| Covid supplies | 3.34 |
| Website | $221.87 |
| Marketing | $445.25 |
| Admin – legal & gov’t. | – |
| Admin – other | $19.69 |
| Total Expenditures | $5,216.17 |
| Net | $726.07 |
| Recapture of non-cash expenses | $42.00 |
| Current Balance: | $1,781.38 |
And that, my friends, is how the spreadsheet, er, spreads. 😉
Registration for Narrativity 2027 will be opening as soon as we can get some behind-the-scenes waterfowl to line up, so if you’re not on our mailing list, tell us you want to be, and subscribe to website updates to make sure you hear about all the nifty stuff we’ve got in the works.
And if you enjoy Narrativity, the best thing you can do to help the con is tell people about it! Your friends and fellow story enthusiasts will probably enjoy it as much as you do — appreciation of the glory of spreadsheets entirely optional.
$5200–the bargain con! So much fun and learning, for so many people, packed into four days.
Proudly wearing my purple merch! 🙂