The Quill & Ink has stepped into its third year. Through a lot of uncertainty, unwelcome changes, difficulties that seemed unsurmountable at the time, we have survived.

Perhaps it is time to take stock of our achievements over the past two years. To start with, let us take a look at the readership. From a humble thirty page views, today we register over a thousand hits per month - which, by the web standards, is no mean  feat for a  not-for-profit  website. Of course, it is to you, our  readers, that we  owe  our success. Thank you, and keep the  mails  pouring in. Nothing  excites  us more than having our  mailbox full of your queries and comments.

On the  literary front, we are making  slow but  steady progress. As the number of readers have been growing, so has the quality of the featured  matter  been improving. While  once we were forced to select  one out  of every two submissions to keep the  zine  running,  we  can now afford to look at four  submissions  against every one published. Also, we no longer need to solicit authors directly barring exceptional cases - the Quill & Ink is now a name that draws submissions by itself.

So what next? 

We have big plans, starting with a paper edition of the zine starting sometime around next year. All the material featured on the  website would  simultaneously  be published offline  under the banner of  the "Dark Horse Press".  We also  intend to  come out with an anthology of the poems  and stories  published  by us in the past by next  March. We invite you to suggest a name for the anthology. 

So far as the website goes, we shall start a new section from the next issue titled - "Literary Resources". It will be a  comprehensive  list of paying markets for  short  stories and  poetry, alongwith a list of popular literary webzines. With  this,  we hope  to  provide  you  with  what  we  understand  best - a  platform for  budding  talents in  the  literary world. And when you believe that you have outgrown us, we want to be there to guide you towards the right direction. 

As ever, the Quill & Ink remains committed to Art, and by extension, to life.

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