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The Saturday Evening Quill.
First number, June 1928 & Third number, June 1930
Alice Dunbar Nelson Papers (MSS 0113)
The Saturday Evening Quill was established in 1928 by Eugene Gordon. The Quill was a literary magazine published in Boston yearly until 1930. It was a short lived publication which was only available to Saturday Evening Quill Club members with the final issue in 1930 being available to the public. The magazine published stories, poems, plays, and essays. The Saturday Evening Quill Club began in July 1925 with founding members Dorothy West and Helene Johnson.
The magazine features a statement to the reader which details “the purpose being chiefly to present original work of Saturday Evening Quill Club members to themselves… the ages of contributors run all the way from 22 to 60-odd.” written by the editor. Some of the writers include Gertrude Schalk, Edythe Mae Gordon, Dorothy West, and Roscoe Wright.
By the 1930 issue, the statement to the reader is edited to say, “with the third number of the magazine occurs a change in the situation. We have made it possible this year for most of those who formerly sought copies to obtain them.” With this final copy, only 300 were published.
