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QUAKERS UNITING IN PUBLICATIONS

an international network of Quaker booksellers - authors - publishers concerned with the ministry of the written word

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Quakers uniting in the ministry of the written word through:

  • Promotion of Quaker books, journals, blogs, and other media
  • Support of Quaker authors, editors, desktop and website publishers
  • Annual conferences to share perspectives, skills, concerns, and our faith tradition
  • Education about sound, ethical and effective business practices
  • Cooperative marketing and publishing
  • Assistance to Friends publishing in countries less affluent than those where most present members live.
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2010 Quaker Writers' Conference & Annual Conference Registration Ready

Journals to Blogosphere

Nurturing & Networking Quaker Writing in the 21st Century

Featuring Quaker Youth Book Project Book Release Party

21-25 April 2010 • Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN

QUIP invites Quaker authors and aspiring authors to a conference focusing on the ministry of the written word and how it prospers among us today. Network and worship with other Quaker writers, publishers, bloggers, editors, and journalists! Meet the members of the Youth Book Editorial Board and help them celebrate the release of QUIP’s second Youth Book, Spirit Rising: Young Quakers Speak, featuring writing and art from all over the Quaker world! Attend workshops, panels, interest groups and plenaries presented by leaders in the Friends publishing world.

For more information contact clerks@quakerquip.org

Co-sponsored by Friends World Committee for Consultation(Section of the Americas), Barclay Press, Friends United Press, Pendle Hill, Earlham School of Religion & Friends General Conference

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(Last day for registrations is 17 March 2010)

Promote the Writers's Conference and the QUIP Youth Book, Spirit Rising, by printing these flyers and posting them at your meeting or campus.

Please to contribute to the Writers' Conference Scholarship Fund

Make it possible for under-represented voices, including younger Friends, to attend the conference.
Use the "Donate to Quip" link at the bottom of this page or send a check to the QUIP treasurer, Betsy Muench, address below.

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QUIP News

  • Quaker Voices
    New Quaker Journal bringing together new articles, poems and graphics, as well as incorporating the best from Area and Local Meeting newsletters and foreign Quaker publications. Published six times a year by Britain Yearly Meeting and edited by Trish Carn, this new journal replaces Quaker Monthly and is available by subscription in the UK and abroad. To subscribe go to Quaker Voices.

  • Friends General Conference Publications Manager
    Friends General Conference is seeking a new Publications Manager. To see materials about the position go to www.fgcquaker.org/about-us/employment-internships.

  • ***2010 QUIP Quaker Writers' Conference***
    • Journals to Blogosphere: Nurturing & Networking Quaker Writing in the 21st Century
    Featuring Quaker Youth Book Project Book Release Party
    (this conference will include the annual meetings of QUIP)
    21-25 April 2010 • Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN (more information)

  • QUIP Quaker Youth Book Pages
    • The Quaker Youth Book, now titled Spirit Rising: Young Quakers Speak, is now in its final stages of production. The project's new pages are at Quaker Youth Book. A release party is planned at the April 2010 QUIP Quaker Writers' Conference. (see info above)

    Contribute to the Youth Book.

    Support sending the whole editorial board to the release party in April and the distribution of the book internationally in the Quaker world.

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    Checks can be sent to:

    • Quaker Youth Book Project,
    • 1216 Arch Street Suite #2B,
    • Philadelphia, PA 19107

    Stay tuned! Check back here often for updates, multimedia, pre-order options, Spirit Rising events near you, and opportunities to be involved!

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QUIP Clerks

  • Co-Clerk: Charles Martin, 54 Lapidge Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA (contact)
  • Co-Clerk: Gil Skidmore, 31 Melrose Avenue, Reading, RG6 7BN, UK (contact)
  • Recording Clerk: Lyn Cope, PO Box 510795, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951 USA
  • Treasurer: Elizabeth Muench, 2 Matthew Drive, Brunswick, ME 04011, USA
  • Promotions Clerk: Stephen Dotson, (no address at this time)

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