Writers Guidelines for QuakerPress and QuakerBridge Media

Quill Inquiries and submissions: We wish to see a final manuscript before making commitments to publish. However we do respond to inquiries about our potential interest in projects in progress. Please use the attached author proposal form and include some sample material, such as a table of contents and chapter. Material should be double-spaced if sent as hard copy or it can be e-mailed as an attachment. Send a SASE if you expect materials to be returned. Do not send disks. Since committees meet 2-4 times each year the process for accepting manuscripts can be lengthy, especially for QuakerPress.

Formats and content: FGC publishes material in a variety of formats: books, pamphlets, curricula and tracts, as well as digitized and downloadable projects. We occasionally produce CDs and other media. Our editorial mission is limited to material that supports the major goals of FGC: (1) Nurture meetings and worship groups; (2) Provide resources and opportunities for meetings, Friends, and seekers to experience the Light, the living presence of God; (3) Help meetings guide Friends to discern the leadings of the Inward Teacher and to grow into ministry; (4) Transform our awareness so that our corporate and individual attitudes and actions fully value and encompass the blessed diversity of our human family; (5) Work to grow and sustain a vital, diverse, and loving community of Friends based on a shared search for unity in the Spirit; (6) Articulate, communicate, and exemplify Friends' practices, core experiences, and the call to live and witness to our faith; and (7) Promote dialogue with others, sharing with them our corporate experience of Divine Truth and listening to and learning from their experience of the same. Please note that we use a fairly narrow interpretation of these priorities: our publications are explicitly about or for Quakers.

Examples of recent QuakerPress publications include:

  • Spirit Rising: Young Quaker Voices (book-length anthology co-published with Quakers Uniting in Publications – QUIP)
  • “Timeless Quaker Wisdom in Plainsong” by Paulette Meier (a musical CD co-published with Lessonsongs Music)
  • A Lasting Gift: The Journal and Selected Writings of Sandra L. Cronk (book)
  • Earthcare for Children: A Curriculum for First Day School, Sunday School and After School Programs (Third Edition, curriculum)
  • Coming into Friendship as a Gift: The Journey of a Young Adult Friend, by Christina Van Regenmorter (pamphlet)
  • Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice by Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye (book, history)

Two imprints: the guidelines above apply to both QuakerPress and QuakerBridge Media publications. The productions of QuakerPress are funded by FGC which benefits from the sales. Royalties are paid only when revenue from sales exceeds production costs. The productions of QuakerBridge Media are funded by authors or sponsoring organizations and sales benefit the funder, until they exceed the costs of production, after which revenues are shared. QuakerBooks of FGC distributes the titles of both presses and lists them in its online and print catalogs. Authors are encouraged to actively participate in the promotion of QuakerPress titles, and are advised about promotion for QuakerBridge Media titles; they may contract for promotion services.

Complete contact information:
QuakerPress and QuakerBridge Media of Friends General Conference
1216 Arch Street 2B
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Telephone: (215) 561-1700 Ext. 3225
E-mail: chela@fgcquaker.org
Website: www.fgcquaker.org/quakerpress
Chel Avery, Publications Manager
December 2010