FRANK's story
We've received a lot of questions about how and why FRANK got started…so here's the scoop.
After working as a journalist for many years, Karen Miles dreamed a big dream in 1998…to create a magazine for young women that contained positive, attainable, genuine information about living a happy, healthy life. Forget dieting, models, celebrities, and stupid tips, Karen wanted the magazine to be about inspiration, real career advice, relationships, current affairs, and education.
After learning how to write her first business plan - and after several rewrites! - Karen spent too many years trying to convince hundreds of advertisers, partners, and publishers that her magazine idea was, in investor speak, "financially viable". With little support for what was clearly an inspirational "little fish in a big pond" idea, Karen refused to give up and decided not to wait for her 'cash cow with a heart' to appear.
In August 2003, Karen called her journalist mate Katie Delaney who was also passionate about how women were represented and 'talked at' in the media. They decided to just go for it - to create their own mag together as 'volunteers' without any money and a total ban on advertisers pushing products and airbrushed ads. Karen then called Jessica Kiely, her business partner at Youth 2 Youth, and pitched the concept - and Jessica was so on board!
The name 'FRANK' came about the day after Karen, Katie & Jessica's first magazine meeting. They had all come up with their own list of possible magazine names that expressed the magazine's thought-provoking, intelligent and straight-talking content. On Karen's list was the word "FRANK". Karen emailed the name to Katie and Jessica, and Katie was on the phone in a flash - they both had the same name stuck in their heads! Cosmic perhaps? We all figured, if you're going to share information that "tells it like it is", you may as well be "FRANK"!
So … that's how you came to have a copy of FRANK in your hands.
Our next challenge is to get FRANK in to print! ...and you can help FRANK just by forwarding the mag on, adding FRANK to your website/intranet/waiting room or registering for a free subscription!
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contribute to FRANK.
If you'd like to get an article or your photography published in FRANK, here's some guidelines...
ARTICLES - the length of your submission will depend on which section of FRANK you want to contribute to. For example, a CD/book/website review may be 50 words, and a feature article could be around 500 words.
PHOTOGRAPHY - if you're sending in photography - which we need for FRANK's cover, to run with articles, or as a feature on it's own - it's best to send digital images that are 300 dpi saved as a jpeg. We're interested in photos of…you & your friends, great chicks, anything from the world around you, the environment, anything arty, etc!!
OTHER INFO - FRANK will give you a by-line, which is your name at the beginning or the end of your published submission. FRANK reserves the right to edit all submissions. FRANK retains reprint and editing rights to contributions, but contributors retain all other rights for resale and republication. FRANK can't return any material submitted.
To submit your photos or an article, click here to email it to Katie.
Or post it to: FRANK - PO Box 339 Pennant Hills NSW 1715
more info about FRANK.
co-editors: Karen Miles & Katie Delaney
research & subscriptions: Jessica Kiely
FRANK (meaning: honest, open, to the point) is created by Karen, Katie & Jessica - "we provide young women with valuable and independent information to help them make their own informed choices related to career, relationships, personal growth, the environment, as well as fun stuff like entertainment and fashion. There are so many mixed messages, dodgy marketing and women's magazines out there claiming to help chicks when in reality most of their messages are empty and stupid!"
FRANK is a FREE magazine, currently distributed by email, soon to be in print. FRANK is run by volunteers and is published through Youth 2 Youth, a socially responsible company who helps schools, universities, colleges, councils and organisations to inspire and develop young people.
got some feedback? we'd love to hear what you think of FRANK, how we could improve it, and your opinion on any of our articles - in fact, we may even publish your letter in the mag! so get clickin and send us an email!
Let's be frank. Imagine young women having access to an ad-free, intelligent, thought provoking magazine that's cool, creative, inspiring and fun! There's currently not a lot on offer, most women's magazines spill over with diets, celebrities, stereotypes, and 'glossy' supermodel ads. And frankly, we're over it.
FRANK magazine will eventually be a print magazine with distribution Australia-wide! If you'd like to support FRANK in some way we'd love to hear from you! Contact FRANK's co-editor Karen Miles on Ph: 02 9484 7722.