Hi Team,
What if we tried an outing for a month, to gauge response? We could
set up a theme for December 2017 as a trial run, to encourage writers to get submissions in.
I want to suggest audio/sound topic as first topic, and December sounds fun!
The biggest problem I've encountered as an editor is follow-through on commitments to write. But with a theme, if no one takes it up, we can still get timed articles out on a per-week basis. The theme allows us to have a bucket of content that makes the Magazine lean toward that theme. (IOW, it doesn't have to be either/or.)
I think that this is the point of this, to engage author to write, by giving theme an "exclusive" theme/topic to write about.
Bt,