People's Friend Annual 2023

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If you’re an author yet to be published in the “Friend”, please send your story to [email protected] The People’s Friend Annual 2024 is available now, and the stories for PFA 2025 are with our Production Team. Norma’s husband starts bird-watching in his retirement, but the calm descends into mayhem when squirrels invade the garden! “Driving Me Nuts” is by Kate Hogan. While so much has changed since the first issue of “The People’s Friend” was published on January 13, 1869, what has remained constant is the friendship and loyalty between our publication and you, our wonderful readers.

Stories for the annual are bought and illustrated all the way through the year, and I’m already starting to plan for our Annual 2026. History repeated itself with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, and once again the “Friend” would do its utmost to bring cheer and comfort to its readers. The magazine encouraged help with their Love Darg appeal. The Fireside Book takes us through the year with beautifully-illustrated poems which reflect each season.

I still have a few slots to fill in our December issues and hope to have all the Christmas reading complete soon. The People’s Friend Annual 2026

Two friends enter the Best Garden competition every year, but is one of them destined never to have “Green Fingers”? By Christine Bryant; artwork Ruth Blair.The millennium marked a fresh optimism as the world celebrated. Looking to the future, the “Friend” embraced the digital world while holding strong to traditional values. If you’re new to the blog, I post here on Thursdays, with advice for writers hoping to submit fiction for publication in “The People’s Friend”. You can enjoy little nuggets of information about all destinations throughout the UK, accompanied by lovely J.Campbell Kerr illustrations. Village newcomer Alice hopes to make new friends by sharing her “Damsons In Distress!”. By Jane Bettany, with artwork from Andre Leonard.

Peace had been restored once more, and it was time for the “Friend” and its readers to leave behind the dark days of war and embrace a bright new future. Our annuals for 2025 are already with our Production Team, and we’ve now starting to gather stories and poems for our 2026 annuals.A four-legged friend helps heal a family rift in “Lead The Way”, by Jane Ayres. Illustration from Tracy Fennell. From the start, the “Friend” was intended for the whole family. The Children’s Corner was a regular feature of the “Friend” for over a century, with stories, puzzles and general knowledge for the little ones. During the Eighties and Nineties, young women looked to strong female role models to guide their ambitions. The “Friend” was there to encourage readers in every sphere. stories for our annual are perhaps the most traditional of all our fiction, and often reflect the passing year, so seasonal submissions are welcome. To Buy A Copy During the 1870s the “Friend” set about establishing its place in the hearts of its devoted readers.

In April 1870, a new tagline was added to the magazine’s masthead: “A Weekly Miscellany of Popular and Instructive Literature”. and a gran finds that helping at a local school is more rewarding than she’d expected in “Stitched Up!”. By Laura Tapper, with artwork from Helen Welsh. Favourite Authors In the short years of Edward VII’s reign great things would happen, and great events unfold. In 1908 the “Friend” marvelled at man’s conquest of the skies by men such as the Wright brothers and Bleriot. Diane loses her beloved climbing rose, and struggles to find a replacement in “A Rose By Any Other Name”, by Patsy Collins. Artwork, Ruth Blair.

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The Sixties and Seventies were defining years for Britain, transforming the country into a place of freedom and hope, and the “Friend” was there every step of the way. and in “Everything Changes”, by Alyson Hilbourne, a WW2 bombing raid leads to an extended family. Artwork, Ged Fay. In 1875, sheet music started to be printed in the magazine – the very latest in home entertainment for the times! Our opening story is “The Perfect Resolution” by Eirin Thompson. Dorothy has a New Year’s Resolution – but it’s not concerning herself, it’s concerning her son!