Saturday Evening Quill
The Saturday Evening Quill was a short-lived African-American literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance. It was founded by the journalist Eugene Gordon.History
In 1925, Boston-based journalist Eugene Gordon organized an African-American literary group, the Saturday Evening Quill Club. Its founding members included the writers Helene Johnson and Dorothy West. Out of this grew an annual literary magazine, Saturday Evening Quill, which Gordon edited. Only three issues were published, for the years 1928 to 1930. It was intended mainly for the benefit of club members, and only the third and final issue was available for sale to the public.
The Saturday Evening Quill published stories, poems, essays, and plays. In addition to Gordon, Johnson, and West themselves, it published such noted writers as Gertrude Schalk, Florida Ruffin Ridley, Edythe Mae Gordon, Lois Mailou Jones, Lewis Grandison Alexander, Alvira Hazzard, Alice E. Furlong, and Roscoe Wright.
