Help create a storm: Gill Sewell & Olivia Sewell Risley from the Friends Quarterly

‘We wanted to be radical and relevant, and we can only do that with your help’

A blank page sits before you. You are bursting to write, but you don’t know what to focus on, and you have a multitude of ideas whizzing round your head. If this sounds like you, the Friends Quarterly can help. We would love to hear from you!

Our first edition of the year (February, out now) explores feelings. It includes a variety of individual perspectives, and a range of discussion questions. We will be holding an online conversation on 15 February, hosted by Woodbrooke, interviewing two of the authors. You can book places at www.woodbrooke.org.uk/fq. All of our conversations are now accessible later if you’re not available for the live event. For example, you can see Paul Hodgkin and Paul Ingram in conversation at https://youtu.be/VzcaLfJtNu0.

The second issue of the year (May) will focus on matters coming before this year’s Yearly Meeting. We are looking for one more article for this, so if you could write 3,500 words by 24 February, let us know! We’d like a focus on ‘Releasing our energy so that we can follow the leadings of the spirit, fulfil our purpose and build a better world’.

The third edition (August) will have articles on outreach, with encouragement for each Meeting to think about what it might do for Quaker Week in October. We are still looking for articles for this edition. If you have something to say about the value, method or ethos of Quaker outreach, do please get in touch.

Our final edition (November) is going to focus on the transition from life to death. You might want to write about the Day of The Dead, Hallowe’en, All Souls, All Saints, or perhaps even write a ghost story?! As a rare opportunity we’re happy to take fiction for this edition.

All of the above are working outlines, and will not necessarily be the final title. Your contribution might help influence that. We have a detailed preparation timeline, so if you’d like to submit an article it would be really helpful to know which edition you’d like to write for (preferably sometime in February) so we know in advance where else we need to look for additional contributors and to ensure diversity and breadth. Articles should be 3,000-3,500 words with academic references. You can contact us at editor@friendsquarterly.org with suggestions. We do not pay for articles, but if you’re under thirty-five we can make a small honorarium.

We are also looking for lively front covers, so if you have high-quality photographs or a piece of artwork that might work with one of our themes, do please share your creativity with us.

When we took on the editorship, we said we wanted to be radical and relevant, and we can only do that with your help. So please keep reading and keep writing! We have readers across the world, and hope this will expand once Friends Quarterly becomes available digitally later this year.

Gill and Olivia are the editors of the Friends Quarterly.

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