Ink Cahoots

Ink Cahoots is the AAPA's annual cooperative publication. The effort required for a member to produce a single page is fairly modest, but when those pages are bound together they result in an impressive booklet. Pages can be written on any topic, but the most popular ones relate to some aspect of amateur journalism. Original material is encouraged — if you reprint something, you run the risk of someone else submitting a duplicate.

Since the first issue in 1973, over 150 individuals and couples have produced pages. The average number of participants per year is about 20.

Any AAPA member can produce a page for Ink Cahoots. Pages should be 4½ by 6 inches. Because the pages are connected with staples, please leave at least ½ inch margin on the side to be bound. Copies need to be mailed in time to reach the coordinator, Dave Tribby, by August 31.

Please be sure your page is cut to the correct size. Even a small overhang is noticeable. Dave will be happy to trim your page, if necessary. Contact him for details.

Since the project receives no funds from AAPA's treasury, Dave always appreciates monetary donations to defray costs, such as staples and the postage for mailing the box of completed issues to the mailer.

Templates

If you would like some help getting started on an Ink Cahoots page, here are two templates that can be used in Microsoft Word or other word processing programs that read Word's document (.doc) file format:

The first template produces a line width of 3 inches
The second uses tighter margins and a line width of 3½ inches for those who need more room for their text

Ink Cahoots

Templates

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