Postal Workshops

Last updated 27/07/2011

 Dear Postal Workshop Member,

 You are asked to send your editor a piece of writing every month.  She will collate the contributions into a magazine, including blank sheets on which each member comments on the work of other members.  These sheets are returned to you in the SSAEs you supply.  

 While every workshop will develop its own identity, there are a number of guidelines each must follow if the workshop is to run smoothly.

 You may have read these before but please bear with me and read them again.

 Sending contributions:            

1. Your editor will have a deadline for contributions each month - usually the 20th. Be sure to know what yours is. You should NOT wait for a magazine to arrive before sending another contribution. The mailing list is usually rotated, to change the order of commenting, so your magazine may arrive at irregular times.

2.   Contributions received after the deadline are liable to have to wait until next round. If your contribution is going to be a little late, please call the editor and let her know.

3. If your editor is agreeable, you may send several contributions at once. If you do this, indicate which work is for which issue.

4. Don't forget to advise your editor if you can't contribute one month, perhaps because you are sick, on holiday or snowed -under. Also, with some editors, it is okay once in a while to send a letter rather than a story, poem etc. (but don't do this too often). This allows members to keep in touch with each other and helps to strengthen the bonds that good working groups should be developing.

5. Any member who doesn't contribute or contact her editor for two consecutive months will be deleted from the round. This is the Society's rule and the editors are expected to follow it although they will try to ring the member first.

 Form of contributions:

• -          remember to put your name on your contribution

• -          use full sheets of A4 paper

• -          use double or one and a half spacing (except for poetry)

• -          leave a left margin of at least 3cm so the binding doesn’t hide your words

• -          magazines have on very rare occasions gone astray so it is important you keep a copy of your work.  The Society does not accept responsibility for missing manuscripts

• -          your editor may have a word limit for contributors – don’t exceed it.  If your work is short, two pieces might be okay; if long, serialization is possible.

 Enjoy

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