Announcement

After I talked at length with Gerald del Campo on the phone yesterday, we have decided to reduce the number of issues we release per year by 50%. We’ll be going from 8 (which we rarely make anyway) to 4. This will allow everyone more time to prepare, especially our hard-working columnists and editors! This will also allow for fatter issues and more time to do things like promotion.

However, unlike most paganesque magazines that put out four issues, we are not going with the traditional solstice/equinox format. We love our Samhain and Beltane issues! So we’re going to publish on what Gerald calls the cardinal points (I’m unfamiliar with the label, offhand) of basically Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain. Imbolc and Lughnasadh are boring, so we’re going to call our issues simply “Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring.” This will also have the distinction of not competing with any other publication that releases on the solstice/equinox schedule.

IMPORTANT:
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Here’s the calendar, beginning with the next upcoming date. This will be the same each year. Yay for simplicity!

• July 1 – Final deadline for Summer Issue
• August 1 – Summer Issue premieres
• September 1 – Proposal deadline for Autumn Issue
• October 1 – Final deadline for Autumn Issue
• November 1 – Autumn Issue premieres
• December 1 – Proposal deadline for Winter Issue
• January 1 – Final deadline for Winter Issue
• February 1 – Winter Issue premieres
• March 1 – Proposal deadline for Spring Issue
• April 1 – Final deadline for Spring Issue
• May 1 – Spring Issue premieres
• June 1 – Proposal deadline for Summer Issue

You might notice that each 1^st of the month has something associated. Nice and easy to remember. We should have thought of this before.