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Every month or so we share some ideas of articles that might be written for upcoming issues. If you would like to be notified by email when a new post has been written, fill out your name and email below. This is a very low‐volume list.

Note that the list below includes older issues which have gone to press—and therefore, are topics for which we aren’t actively seeking submissions. We’ve kept these published as archives for Friends and aspiring writers who want to understand our publishing philosophy.

Writing Opp: Pastoral Friends (due 5/11/2020)

By Martin Kelley on March 6, 2020

There are many ways one can categorize different types of Friends. You could parse them out by theology, architecture, history, […]

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal.

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Writing Opp: Membership and Friends (due 3/19/2020)

By Martin Kelley on February 13, 2020

Membership and Friends: Who’s a “real Quaker” and who isn’t? What does it mean for someone to join and what […]

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Writing Opp: Thin Spaces (due 2/10/2020)

By Martin Kelley on January 24, 2020

Thin Spaces: With few rituals to guide us, Quaker worship at its core is a direct connection with the Divine. […]

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Student Writing Opp: Creating Change (due 2/17/2020)

By Gail Whiffen on December 20, 2019

What change do you want to see happen in your community?

Gail Whiffen is associate editor of Friends Journal. Contact: [email protected]

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Writing Opp: The State of Quaker Institutions (closed)

By Martin Kelley on November 21, 2019

Quaker institutions: What’s working and what isn’t and which beloved institutions do we need to make sure we keep alive? […]

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Unnamed Quaker Creeds (closed)

By Martin Kelley on October 24, 2019

Unprogrammed Friends will often tell visitors we have no creeds or set practices in worship.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. Contact: [email protected]

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Friends and Drugs (closed)

By Martin Kelley on September 17, 2019

  Currently looking articles on Unnamed Quaker Creeds       Is there any other aspect of our modern lives […]

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Writing for Open Issues (next: Sept 2020)

By Martin Kelley on August 20, 2019

Learn how to write for a Friends Journal open issue.

Martin Kelley is senior editor of Friends Journal. This piece originally written May 2018, updated December 2019.

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How do you write, FELLOW QUAKER KIDS? (closed)

By Martin Kelley on August 15, 2019

Calling all kid game makers, and graphic artists, and memesters and religious ed teachers: Friends Journal is doing a whole […]

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Writing Opp: Friends and Gambling (closed)

By Martin Kelley on July 3, 2019

Is our witness against gambling a testimony that still matters or has it become outdated? Looking for 1200–2500 word submissions, […]

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