info:  our contact and further information page

(2)  contact form

(3) "info" ~ deadlines, ad rates, & membership

(1) About   Folklife publishers, and Folklife Quarterly
Folklife's main site is folklife.​org.uk

Folklife are print publishers,
​who also provide some material online.

FQ, the Folklife Quarterly,
a 48/52 page A4-size printed publication

FQ, Folklife Quarterly, a 48-52 page (A4) paid-for print magazine,
with Folk news, and listings, from our Members
(mostly Wales, England West Country, England West Midlands & Oxon), and Folklife Traditions -- news & articles, and  Folklife listings



We also publish Folk What's On -  simply the ads from FQ, sent free to concert venues, libraries, TICs, etc.

We also provide, free, online: FQ and Folk What's On ;
this Directory;
and an archive of articles from the Folklife Traditions pages in FQ.

Also, a bilingual Welsh Traditions Directory, Bywyd Gwerin.

See more on our other publications on our main site:  folklife.org.uk

FQ ( 1 )
News pages 

FQ's folk news from our Folklife members, which forms the first half of each issue.
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
• News webpages:  Wales. Then England: mostly West Midlands & West Country; mostly, a webpage for each county.
Note: these webpages are copies of FQ's A4-sizes pages, so may be too big for mobiles.
Of these 3 sections,  (1) and (2) are from our Folklife members only. (3) open to all.
Membership £18 a year, besides posting out FQ quarterly, covers Members' news and online Directory listings.

FQ ( 2 )
Listings are on News pages

Listings from Folklife Members only

• venues • performers • services • festivals • workshops •
song, music, dance, story, poets

In FQ, we print 1-line listing-summaries, plus a next-12-months festival diary, a workshops diary.

Online, we have the full listings on this, our Members' Directory website.

'Folk' listings, from our members   
➀ Clubs & Venues   ➁ Performers 
➂ Services (incl. Shops, media) 
➃ Festival Diary 
➄ Workshop Listings ➅ Workshop Diary
CORRESPONDENTS & OTHER VOLUNTEERS  --- see FOLKLIFE--TEAM page on our main website, Folklife.org.uk

FQ ( 3 )
FT: the Folklife Traditions pages

The FT pages have articles and folklife news; plus 1-line listing-summaries for Folklife Studies & Folklife Societies, and seasonal local celebrations for this quarter

The FT Archive
We have a fully indexed online archive for all issues on a new fully-interactive FT site!  Full listings plus Jan-Dec seasonal local celebrations.
PDFs of each issue (A4 size) are on an e-magazine website.

'Folklife Traditions' listings, open to all   
➆ Folklife Societies  
➇ Folklife Studies & Institutions   
​➈ Seasonal Celebrations

(2) Contact ~ simply fill in the form, or email the information, as you prefer.
A form for Members' VENUE entries on  VENUES PAGE.   For all other entries - please email details instead

Note
these contact forms sometimes take a day or two before we're notified by Weebly
​- so you can email directly us as below

EMAIL
sam<at>folklife.co.uk

PHONE 
01684 561378

ADDRESS
16 Barrett Rise, Malvern,
​Worcs WR14 2UJ
Do join us:
Folklife membership for Folklife Quarterly, a 48 page (A4) print magazine, folk news (Wales, England West Country & West Midlands & Oxon) & folklife traditions​.


To join Folklife.
To join: £18 a year.  Please send by BACS  to:
​Folklife, sort code 09-01-55,  account 18675181.
or send us a £18 cheque to address on left.
​EU £30.  USA £36.
​
New Data rules apply from May !,
so: when you have checked that the BACS payment has been taken from your account, or that the cheque is in the post, then please complete the form on the new DATA page (which is on the main Folklife website)

You will receive 1 copy of 4 quarterly issues,
and for each issue you can send in
------ your folk listings, as in this online DIRECTORY,
------ your folk news. Word limits apply: 200 words, more if advertising, see below
Do email us . . .
. . . firstly, please read what we do - and what we don't
  • FQ is a print magazine - not a blog, nor email forwarding service!
  • We don't use social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
  • We only print Members' news; researched articles; and a few ads.
  • For deadlines, word limits, etc, see "info" below
  • Member-performers news is welcome, including forthcoming CDs, tours, etc.
  • For Festival Diary, don't use this form, pl email us directly the details as on Festivals page.  For adverts, see below "info"
  • So Non-Members are asked not to send editorial details about performers, festivals, etc, nor CDs for reviews.  We do include a few non-Member ads.
  • IMPORTANT ****** If joining Folklife - please use form on the new DATA page on our main Folklife website instead

(3)  "info"  - the download

download our "Info page" : the information below --- FQ deadlines; Membership & word limits; Your adverts in FQ
This is a copy of FQ p.3, the Info page (size: one A4 page) which gives the same details as below:
info.pdf
File Size: 606 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

FQ Deadlines

☞  ●   1 Jan:     20 Nov
☞  ●   1 Apr:     20 Feb 
☞  ●   1 Jul:      20 May 
☞  ●   1 Oct:     20 Aug
Folklife Quarterly, published
< covering 3 months >
Deadline Copy Date
 ●    FQ    Jan    1st
< Jan    •    Feb    •    Mar >
COPY    by    20 Nov
●    FQ    Apr    1st 
< Apr    •    May    •    Jun >
COPY    by    20  Feb
●    FQ    Jul    1st
< Jul    •    Aug    •    Sep >
COPY   by    20  May
●    FQ    Oct   1st
< Oct    •    Nov    •    Oct >
COPY    by    20  Aug

Changes after Deadlines

Changes might be possible after deadline, conditions apply, see below:
  • ADVERTS: changes can be made IF:  same size / image-type (eg jpg) as originally sent.
  • ••• up to 1st Dec/Mar/Jun/Sep, as advert layout is finalised on 2nd !   .... printers' holiday closure, FQ must be finished to post out before Christmas
  • FOLKLIFE MEMBERS’ NEWS & LISTINGS: changes  IF: same word-length or shorter.
  • ••• up to 8 Dec/Mar/Jun/Sep, members only, as non-members news to Correspondents must be by Deadline Copy Date above
⇒   Do Join Us !

Your Membership Benefits
FQ 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 FQ
• Festival Diary,  Workshop Diary
No form needed
  • BACS: Folklife, sort code 09-01-55, account 1867518
  • Or send a cheque: 16 Barrett Rise, Malvern WR14 2UJ
  • Please email your name, address, phone  
  • if not on email, please PRINT when writing 
  • ​Details for our use when posting - not shared with anyone else
  • ​Email on Contact page
Posted :  1 year to 1 address £18
  • 4 issues per year  
  • x1= £18, x2=£20, x3=£21.50, x4=£23, x5 = £25

RESELLING 6 or more = LESS THAN 1/2 PRICE ! ! !
  • post free 6 or more
  • ​by Clubs/Venues, Performers, Shops, & you
  • Buy @ £1.10, sell @ £2.50 .. minimum 6 copies
     x6 = £6.60 per quarter, or £26.40 a year,
     x7 = £7.70 per quarter, or £30.80 a year  … etc​
⇒  Word limits / Editorial


➊ Members' News

up to 200 words, for each news item;

more if advertising --
1/16 250 words;  1/8 275;  1/4 300;  1/2 350;  A4 450 

your Reports, Dates, Festival Info, CD Info.
  • Reviews: only as sent in by our Members, so please don’t send CDs to editors
  • don’t count: heading [name/venue/start time], end contact details
  • Photos: B&W high-res (300 dpi) welcome 
    X not low-res eg copied from web ! 
  • Word limits are for 1 item, you can send in more than 1, eg 2 CDs count as 2 items.
  • Festival & Workshops Diaries:
    same word limits for “More Details” section.
  • In addition to Members' news, we have county correspondents, details at foot of this page.
  • Correspondents: usually 350 to 800 words [may vary, depends on local circulation/ads] 


​➋ Folklife Traditions 
Articles & news ~ word limits by arrangement. 

Send News as plain email, or as RTF, or as Word.doc​
See folklife-traditions.uk website

Using Word.docx  ?

Using 'Word' Footnotes and Endnotes
For any notes: please use Endnotes.

Please do not use Footnotes.
​
How to convert Footnotes to Endnotes, see 
https://folklife-traditions.weebly.com/contributions.html
⇒  Your  Adverts  in  FQ
  • stand out   ………………… as advertising limited to just 1/4 of FQ!
  • ​value for money!   … as your adverts will be shown for 3 months!
  • and copied online:  …  on http://folklife.org.uk, or in this Directory for Festivals and Workshops 
  • and copied to our ads-only Folk What’s On, distributed free to TICs, libraries, & large general venues that include folk programming
Ads :  Costs  (no VAT charged)
  • ££ shown at ‘Invoiced’ prices
  • You can deduct £4 from below if prepaid = you pay by deadline, so we don’t have to invoice (we'll email a receipt)
  • A4 ……… £222 colour    /    £84 mono
  • Full edge-to-edge, or Front Cover @ 5/6th A4 … as A4 colour
  • 1/2  …  £133 colour / £48 mono     
  • 1/4 [A6]   £75 colour / £28 mono      
  • 1/8 ..... £46 colour / £18 mono
  • 1/16 .... £30 colour / £12 mono (so just £8 prepaid)
​
  • Book space by emailing your Purchase Order Nº.
  • Invoiced terms = 30 Days from invoice date. 
  • Invoices (and receipts) are emailed.​
  • Discounts: x2 issues, 5%. x3, 10%. x4, 15%.
  • Further ads will not be accepted if money is owing from last time  !

  • Colour ads: only on covers/inside covers, or exceptionally on colour insert page
  • You can book A4 colour position: prepaid, on 1st come, 1st served, basis
  • Members: B+W ads placed as near as possible to your news or Diary entry, 
  • Page preference-order to biggest (1st A4; 2nd 1/2; and so on)
Ads :  Sizes (A4)
'A4' - if you're not sure about page sizes - see our Guide to Page Sizes [<---this is on our main folklife site] - A4, A5, etc, with examples, note these are A4-size pages, so not suitable for mobiles.

​Colour only
  • Front Cover, up to 5/6ths A4  max w 210, max h 250, +3 mm bleed
  • Edge-to-edge  ……………………………..   max w 210, max h 297, +3 mm bleed
Colour or mono
  • A4 …. max w 188, max h 275
  • 1/2 across  max w 188, max h 132
  • 1/2 column  max w 92, max h 268
  • 1/4 [A6]  ...  max w 92, max h 132 
  • 1/8 …… max w 92, max h 64          
  • 1/16 .... max w 44, max h 64
  • Other: any combination of 1/16 boxes (4mm between boxes).
Sizes include optional border
Ads :  Ads must be emailed (image or text)
  • email image:   camera-ready ~ attach your tiff, jpeg, PDF - we can stretch to fit
  • or   email text:  just email us the words; you can also attach 1 logo to be included; we will typeset, free, in our choice of typeface (as we regularly do for smaller clubs)
  • complex adverts may appear differently, so please ask a professional designer to design & send them​
√    We use: Mac OS 10.7.5,  Adobe InDesign CS 6.
√    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 
  • You can "Save" Word as a PDF - design with a good margin or top or bottom may go missing!
  • GO TO⇒  "Print" 
  • THEN GO TO⇒  "Save As PDF" 
  • check before sending - we can't alter PDFs
  • Be listed!    Join Folklife , only £18 a year, for these Directory listings, and FQ (Folklife Quarterly) posted to you, and your free news/publicity  in FQ, every issue (up to 200 words if not advertising, more if advertising), see Info page (which includes contact details)
  • Our main site, about Folklife, with FQ pages online: folklife.org.uk 
  • Folklife Quarterly , 1 Jan, 1 Apr, 1 Jul, 1 Dec, deadlines & other details on Info page
  • ***  Oct. 2018:  FQ becomes FW ~ Folklife West.   ***   2019 new schedule 1 Jan, 1 May, 1 Sept  ***