Contact us, and Contributing to Folklife Traditions.
Note special later Deadline 1 April - this is because our next print issue will be FT pages & Festivals, but 'folk news' pages will be online only.
Note special later Deadline 1 April - this is because our next print issue will be FT pages & Festivals, but 'folk news' pages will be online only.
Folklife Membership: for Folklife West magazine, post or pdf.
3 issues incl. January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues. Or 3 issues starting May £18.
That's because it's normally £18 but we are giving existing members a £2 refund as January is smaller than our usual FW.
Normally, annual fee for new members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.
Or NEW from Jan 2021: FT only subscription, 3 issues, £10, to include Jan 2021 (3 issues included - May & Sept 2002, Jan 2021)
BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181. For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
Sterling only, bank transfers only. Site security: no payments via this site, so no cards, no cheques, no payment via this site.
Form below: we have an emailed newsletter (monthly-ish). We ask for just your name & email, & country/region. We don't share that information.
This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders).
It's useful for us, for planning, to see interest, generally, and from where (for example, if many USA sign-ups, may continue online US news after lockdown).
3 issues incl. January issue, a special price of £16 for 3 issues. Or 3 issues starting May £18.
That's because it's normally £18 but we are giving existing members a £2 refund as January is smaller than our usual FW.
Normally, annual fee for new members £18, UK post or overseas PDF via WeTransfer; or EU £27 posted.
Or NEW from Jan 2021: FT only subscription, 3 issues, £10, to include Jan 2021 (3 issues included - May & Sept 2002, Jan 2021)
BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181. For our overseas bank codes, please email sam@folklife.uk
Sterling only, bank transfers only. Site security: no payments via this site, so no cards, no cheques, no payment via this site.
Form below: we have an emailed newsletter (monthly-ish). We ask for just your name & email, & country/region. We don't share that information.
This is useful for you, with Updates for News, Directory, Folklife Traditions (& deadline reminders).
It's useful for us, for planning, to see interest, generally, and from where (for example, if many USA sign-ups, may continue online US news after lockdown).
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About Folklife publishers, and Folklife West
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Folklife are print publishers, who also provide some material online.
FW, Folklife West, a 60-64 page (A4) paid-for print magazine, with Folk news, and listings, from our Members (mostly Wales, England West Country, England South/West Midlands), and Folklife Traditions -- news & articles, and listings taken from this site.
We also publish Folk What's On - simply the ads from FW, sent free to concert venues, libraries, TICs, etc.
We also provide, free, online: FW ; a Directory; and on this site, an archive of articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FW.
Also, an online Welsh Traditions Directory, Bywyd Gwerin.
FW, Folklife West, a 60-64 page (A4) paid-for print magazine, with Folk news, and listings, from our Members (mostly Wales, England West Country, England South/West Midlands), and Folklife Traditions -- news & articles, and listings taken from this site.
We also publish Folk What's On - simply the ads from FW, sent free to concert venues, libraries, TICs, etc.
We also provide, free, online: FW ; a Directory; and on this site, an archive of articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FW.
Also, an online Welsh Traditions Directory, Bywyd Gwerin.
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Folk Listings (from Folklife Members only)
➀ Clubs & Venues ➁ Performers ➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) ➃ Festival Diary ➄ Workshop Listings ➅ Workshop Diary song, music, dance, story, poets In FW, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary. Online, we have full listings on our DIRECTORY website www.folklife-directory.uk |
✪ PUBLICATION DATES, deadlines for news, & Folklife Traditions articles ✪
✪ JAN, deadline news 19 November; FT articles 1 November ✪
✪ MAY, deadline news 19 March; FT articles 1 March ✪ ✪ SEPT, deadline news 19 July; FT articles 1 July ✪
' FT ' : Folklife Traditions pages in our Folklife West magazine include articles and news.
The FT header artwork above: © our logo, Chris Beaumont. Morris dancers © Annie Jones; from The Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (Dave Jones)
The FT header artwork above: © our logo, Chris Beaumont. Morris dancers © Annie Jones; from The Roots Of Welsh Border Morris (Dave Jones)
CONTACT ............. to contact us ~ simply email sam@folklife.uk
PHONE 01684 561378
ADDRESS 16 Barrett Rise, Malvern, Worcs WR14 2UJ |
Before emailing us, please note
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DO JOIN US:
Folklife membership for Folklife West, a 60-64 page (A4) print magazine, folk news (Wales, England West Country and South/West Midlands) & folklife traditions.
To join: £16 a year. Please send us £16 by BACS to: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 18675181. or send us a £16 cheque to address above. EU £24. USA £32. Sterling only. No cards. Then please email your name, postal address, & phone, confirming BACS payment has been made. IF JOINING FOLKLIFE please fill in (very simple) DATA form above You will receive 1 copy of 3 issues per year, and for each issue you can send in ------ your folk listings, as in this online FT DIRECTORY, and in our main Folklife Directory website. ------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below. TO RECEIVE OUR OCCASIONAL emailed FOLKLIFE NEWSLETTER, without joining Folklife: please fill in (very short) form above
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Contribute to Folklife Traditions
FOLKLIFE WEST CORRESPONDENTS and OTHER VOLUNTEERS
Please see the Team page on the Folklife site, www.folklife.uk/team.html, for all those involved in FW. And specifically for our Folklife Traditions pages in Folklife Quarterly, we are regularly indebted to Doc Rowe for his list & pictures, to Roy & Leslie Adkins for articles, and to Ian Pittaway for occasional articles; and to Charles Menteith and to Gwilym Davies for songs with notes; and to others from time to time, as listed in FT. Recently, we have been joined by Meurig Williams (Welsh traditional music) and Helen Adams (Welsh tunes). In memory of Roy Palmer, left, a generous contributor of researched articles for our Folklife Traditions pages, freely donated for for over 30 years, from the days of FW’s predecessor, the Somers’ Broadsheet, Aug 1983, to 2014. |
Contribute:
sending in articles from researchers, folklife societies & institutions, such as are listed in our Folklife Traditions Directory pages on this site
1. Researched articles about a collected song or tune, word limits: no minimum - we get articles which are anything from just a song and a few lines or up to 500 words; other articles are often 1000 to 1500, our maximum is 2500 words.
2. To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words. Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
Please note.
2. To introduce society, institution, etc, up to 1000 words. Thereafter, short news items/dates from society, institutions welcome; longer items, please consult editor.
- Photo(s) welcome, can be sent in colour; may be also used in colour on cover if we have room (depends on adverts)
- * A4 page - up to 1000 words welcome; example below is 792 words, as you see we have expanded to full A4 by using a photo. But you don't have to provide a full page - entirely up to you. •• FW's deadlines - see top of page
Please note.
- All subject to space; please consult us first, as space varies, eg due to Folk Festival adverts in FW.
- See "This issue online" webpage on this site to view what the latest issue looks like.
Please note we don't cover occult, wicca, neo-paganism, etc
Our readers
The sort of people who might well be interested but just don't know about you.
Whilst we do have members who are e.g. members of TSF, EFDSS, etc, and know all about what you do ...
... many readers are not in any sort of organisation, and most also will not have academic library access.
This does not mean they are not interested !!
Accordingly, contributions do not have to be original - they could be cut and pasted from your existing web article(s).
If you look at the Index: ISSUES on this site, the Folklife Traditions pages within Folklife West magazine, - an index of all FT issues, which gives a flavour of what we do - links to all FT issues in e-mag format.
BELOW --- an example full-page article follows a note on using Word Footnotes & Endnotes
Whilst we do have members who are e.g. members of TSF, EFDSS, etc, and know all about what you do ...
... many readers are not in any sort of organisation, and most also will not have academic library access.
This does not mean they are not interested !!
Accordingly, contributions do not have to be original - they could be cut and pasted from your existing web article(s).
If you look at the Index: ISSUES on this site, the Folklife Traditions pages within Folklife West magazine, - an index of all FT issues, which gives a flavour of what we do - links to all FT issues in e-mag format.
BELOW --- an example full-page article follows a note on using Word Footnotes & Endnotes
Books
Publicising your books.
We are unlikely to have time for reviews.
Instead, you are welcome to send in a synopsis, up to 200 words, more if advertising: 1/16 250 words; 1/8 275; 1/4 300; 1/2 350; A4 450 words.
Word limits are for the text, we do not include book title & details of price, publishers, ISBN
Word limits may be exceeeded if we think the material particularly relevant to our readers.
Book cover image (jpeg/.jpg) is also welcome.
We are unlikely to have time for reviews.
Instead, you are welcome to send in a synopsis, up to 200 words, more if advertising: 1/16 250 words; 1/8 275; 1/4 300; 1/2 350; A4 450 words.
Word limits are for the text, we do not include book title & details of price, publishers, ISBN
Word limits may be exceeeded if we think the material particularly relevant to our readers.
Book cover image (jpeg/.jpg) is also welcome.
Advertising -- full details below 'Word' details + sample full-page article
Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes
For any notes: please use endnotes.
Please do not use footnotes. They don't work! when transferred out of Word! ......... Text goes missing, numbers get lost!
You may be able to convert footnotes to endnotes
I can't do this - I have an old "Word for Mac 2011", but thanks to Lesley Adkins for this about Windows version :
Please do not use footnotes. They don't work! when transferred out of Word! ......... Text goes missing, numbers get lost!
You may be able to convert footnotes to endnotes
I can't do this - I have an old "Word for Mac 2011", but thanks to Lesley Adkins for this about Windows version :
Example full-page article
Example article (this is 792 words + photo) --- the original page being A4 size.
If you have difficulty in reading this on screen, then you can download this page as a PDF:--- |
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⇒ Do Join Us ! Your Membership Benefits FW by post and Free Editorial / Publicity, in print + online • Festivals, Venues, Performers, Media, Services, Organisations, etc • News & Reports, • Listings: in this Directory, with summary in FW • Festival Diary, Workshop Diary No form needed
Posted : 1 year to 1 address £16
6 or more, 25% off + post-free! √ Reselling: post free 6 or more, by Clubs, Pubs, Venues, Festivals, Performers, Shops, & you - √ Buy @ £2.25, sell @ £3 ... minimum 6 copies √ 6 or more copies can be bought on a pro-rata per-issue basis (includes membership) so you can easily change quantities X Sold as ordered - No returns
⇒ Word limits / Editorial
➊ Members' News up to 200 words, for each news item; more if advertising -- 1/8 275 words; 1/4 300 words; 1/2 350 words; A4 450 words your Reports, Dates, Festival Info, CD Info.
➋ Folklife Traditions - on this website Articles & news ~ word limits by arrangement. Send News as plain email, or as RTF, or as Word.doc Using Word.docx ?Please see note, above this section, about Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes |
⇒ Your Adverts in FW
Ads: Costs (no VAT charged): ‘Prepaid’ -- £4 less than invoiced.
‘Prepaid’ -- Prepaid year over 15% less than 3 prepaid separately. Colour will be a bit cheaper, starting October issue
Mono
Book space by emailing your Purchase Order Nº. Invoiced terms = 30 Days from invoice date. Invoices (and receipts) are emailed.
Ads : Sizes (A4) 'A4' - if you're not sure about page sizes - see [link:] our Guide to Page Sizes on our Folklife website - A4, A5, etc, with examples, note those are A4-size pages, so not suitable for mobiles. You can download Pages Sizes examples PDF from that page. Colour only
Ads : Ads must be emailed (image or text)
√ Colour ads: you are advised to send us a printout so we can check colours. √ If B&W: pl convert colour to greyscale, & check that before sending. √ Tiff √ Jpeg, √ PDF as High-definition 300dpi, text 600 dpi, fonts embedded; if B&W ad, send only as greyscale. ? Word “.doc” is not an image, so can't be used directly
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