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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, publishers, booksellers, 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 less affluent areas including Africa and Latin America.

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On and Beyond the Page

2012 QUIP Annual Meeting

10-13 May 2012 ~ Pendle Hill Conference Center, Wallingford, PA USA

Plenary Topics include:
  • Quakerly Ways to Promote Your Publication
  • Trends and Tips for Independent Booksellers
  • From Do-It-Yourself to Big Quaker Publishing: The Spectrum and How it Serves Readers and Writers
  • What is the Future of Quaker Media?

All Quaker authors, publishers, booksellers, and others involved with the ministry of the written world are encouraged to attend.

All evening programs, and Saturday afternoon's workshop, are open to the public. For more information:
Join us on Saturday evening, May 12, at 7pm in the Barn for "What is the Future of Quaker Media?" with Gabriel Ehri and Martin Kelley. See event page.

Arrive at 3:00 pm for a workshop with Martin and Gabriel! “From Do-It-Yourself to Big Quaker Publishing: The Spectrum and How it Serves Readers and Writers.” Participants will have a chance to share their motivations, their influences, and their audience, and discuss what defines their place in the spectrum.

Join us for dinner Saturday evening. Reserve by Thursday afternoon, May 10, by emailing dinner@quakerquip.org – cost for dinner is $12.50 due to QUIP before you enter the dining room.

Registration for the full conference closed 26 March 2012.


QUIP News

  • New Quaker Web Publications
    Friends World Committee has launched a wonderful new on line publication at Voices of Friends which "aims to feed the soul of those who feel an affinity to the beliefs and practices of Quakers and to provide an entry point to understanding Quakerism today in all its diversity". Be sure to take a look. Also, several Friends have developed a website for Quaker writings in Spanish. Raices Cuaqueras – Heredad De Textos lists most of the texts recently translated from English to Spanish including writings of Fox, Pennington, Fell, Barclay and Woolman.

  • QUIP Considers: Future Quaker Book Publishing ~ read the article and join the discussion by posting a comment.
    Older articles can be found at Whence Quaker Publishing? - read articles and comment on the future of Quaker publishing.

  • group picture Report from 2011 QUIP QUAKER WRITERS' CONFERENCE • NO FRIEND IS AN ISLAND • Quakers exploring connections through writing and publishing
    The Woodbrooke, UK, conference concluded 2 May 2011. Read the conference summary by Chel Avery. (also see Vanessa Julye's blog about the conference)

  • New International Quaker On-Line Journal: QuakerVoice
    QUIP Clerks received an email from Friends in Australia saying that the Australian Friend is developing an online version in which they hope to feature "writers who will reflect on events in their country from a Quaker perspective". Read Invitation to Write for QuakerVoice On-line for more information.

  • Visit the New Spirit Rising Web Pages
    Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices, is available from Quaker Bookstores or by post from QuakerBooks, www.quakerbooks.org.

  • WHY JOIN QUIP? Read what Friends Vanessa Julye, Phildalephia, PA, USA and Harriet Hart, London, UK say about attending QUIP Annual Meetings in The Ministry of Words in The Friend.

  • PROMOTE NEW TITLES - use this guide to send information about new Quaker related publications for posting on the website and in the Books-In-Print Database. You must be a QUIP member to list titles on the website. All Quaker related titles will be listed in the Books-In-Print Database.


  • QUIP FACEBOOK Page - to join the conversation, put "QUIP" into the FACEBOOK search.

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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: Trish Carn, 56 Alexandra Grove, London N12 8HG, UK
  • Promotions Clerk: Rausie Hobson

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