Heyday is an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher with a nearly 50-year track record of amplifying California's unheard voices. 

We signed on to publish Red Flag Warning because we've never seen a book like it: a collection of 25 remarkable essays curated and edited by two acclaimed writers, activists, and survivors of the Tubbs and Dixie fires. Braiding together the voices of rural Californian first responders, loggers, agricultural laborers, Indigenous peoples, and more, it's a rallying cry of mourning, resilience, and hope. 

We need your help to bring this book into the world, where it can make a difference. 

Added to the funds already committed for this project (we're about 1/3 of the way there as this campaign launches!), your support will help close the gap of printing, production, and design costs that are still outstanding, allowing Heyday to get Red Flag Warning in bookstores in Fall 2024. Following publication, its editors and contributing writers will take its message on the road with free writing workshops and public events, fostering learning, healing, and the forging of a new path forward.

"Every community moving through wildfire loss is a community being built from the ground up: from the painful shadows and hard facts of what was lost, the strangeness and resilience of who and what remains, and the murky promise of what might come."  

-Amy Elizabeth Robinson, from Red Flag Warning