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INFORMATION for MEMBERS

• NEXT DEADLINE: 20 Feb 2012 for
  • Folklife West Nº 33, published 1 Apr 2012
  • includes Folklife West Journal

• Other deadlines http://deadline.folklife-west.org.uk

Overview / Future plans

I have edited a folk magazine over 30 years (Folklife West's predecessors Broadsheet / Somers Journal published & subsidised by Somers Trad Folk Club). I have learned that rapid huge changes don't work - witness the demise of some respected specialised print magazines after being available in WHSmiths! Instead we continue to improve our magazine at a manageable rate, and thank readers for their kind and encouraging comments ("Congratulations! It's an amazing magazine!").

• The magazines have never run at a profit, and are not expected to, given that mostly news, not adverts and reviews. So thanks to our Members for their support.
• We have been working on expanding Folk West, now renamed Folklife West. It has doubled in size over last 5 years.
• Folklife West publishers have produced various publications, we are now combining these (we've always wanted to, but didn't have the technology to support bigger magazines).

Details

• 2011: bought new equipment, thus enabling us to improve our Folk West magazine, and in particular to combine our publications.

• 2011 April,
  • Folk West changed from A5 to A4
  • Journal published, separately as before, and redesigned to be same layout and sizes as Folk West for future integration.

• 2011 July: changes as announced !

• 2011 October
  • started to include a Folklife Diary (as in our Journal), a trial run for later integrating Journal.
  • Folk West was renamed Folklife West to reflect the increased content.
  • biggest-ever, 44 A4 pages - doubled in 5 years.
  • include a Folk Directory, this time redesigned to be same layout and size, and so that our "1-line Directory summaries" in FW correspond to 1st line of Directory.
  • Directory still available separately

• 2012 January
  • Journal (including Folklife Diary) now included in Folklife West; still available separately. And it becomes quarterly!
  • again our biggest ever - 48 A4 pages

• As to the future
  • this will include a Folklife Traditions Directory in Oct 2012, included in FW, and still available separately, and we will develop the Journal (including Folklife Diary) further.

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