Submit your Voice of Syria Content Below!

*Effective March 21, 2022: The Voice will be reduced from 6 issues per year to 4.

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Even though it’s just old fashioned paper...

The Voice offers us an amazing opportunity to get creative, inform, entertain and educate our readers. Any of these ideas below ought to inspire many great articles from every one of our Units, Clubs and Caravans! Try one for our next issue:

  • Business changes that impact members of your Unit, Club or Caravan
  • Highlight something newsworthy, an anniversary or a milestone
  • Recent award nominations or wins
  • A list of open positions for appointment
  • Behind-the-scenes look at your Unit, Club or Caravan
  • Message from the leadership
  • Unit, Club or Caravan how-to, each is unique
  • A top ten list – thousands of ideas
  • Run a survey or a poll of attitudes and opinions to guide future improvements
  • Quotes—motivational or just plain funny (if appropriate)
  • Announce the debut a social media channel, or revive an existing one
  • Spotlight an influential member, tell their story to the Oasis
  • A “Dear Abby” type advice column
  • Frequently asked questions (FAQs) with answers
  • Highlight any community service initiatives
  • Do a Q&A with a Shriner, or a patient, or a doctor
  • Run a small contest, do a giveaway of something of modest value
  • Write or share a guide on something
  • Write a ‘day in the life’ article of someone connected to the Nobility
  • Interview someone in your Unit Club or Caravan
  • Intrigue! Open a mystery in this issue’s article and solve it next issue
  • Run a quiz this issue, give the answers in the next issue
  • Submit a blast from the past photo with a description
  • Write a history of your Unit Club or Caravan, they all have one
  • Give tips and hints to help new Shriners and Masons succeed
  • Create a list of valuable resources that you curate and share
  • Create a checklist or template for something useful
  • Create a beginner’s guide to something interesting
  • Pick a pressing issue ask ten "experts" to give one piece of advice about it
  • Write a reflection piece on how things have changed in the past 5 or 10 years
  • Share a book report of an applicable piece of writing.
  • Let people know about your partnerships and highlight the benefits
  • Explore a challenge your Unit, Club or Caravan had, explain how you solved it
  • Share any recent media coverage
  • Ask a member to share their favorite feature of your Unit, Club or Caravan and why they love it
  • Invite members (not just leadership) of your Unit, Club or Caravan to contribute articles
  • Introduce or re-introduce an existing member our audience should know (or know better)
  • Give a shout out to a Unit, Club or Caravan that you aren't in to recognize their good works
  • Describe an initiative that was successful or had a positive impact
  • Everybody loves to hear a yarn, tell us a good story from the past

Please read these directions:

Best practices for submitting VOS content

  1. Use our form below to submit Voice content. What type do I choose?
  2. Deadlines are firm. We cannot accept content after the deadline.
  3. Submit content only when it is finalized and ready to print. Run a spelling check.  Ask a friend review it. No additional corrections will be made.
  4. Please proofread everything before you submit. Double check spelling of names, dates, times, contact numbers, etc.
  5. Select the type of content in our handy form below. Complete the form entirely, click SUBMIT once you are done. You may return to this page to submit additional content.
  6. Large, high resolution photos are best. We cannot accept small photo sizes.
  7. If you have any trouble or questions about using this page. Contact the editor here. Complete our contact form, please do not call the office.

Deadlines for 2025:


> Winter 2025 Issue - Fri. December 27th
> Spring 2025 Issue - Fri. March 21st
> Summer 2025 Issue - Fri. June 20th
> Fall 2025 Issue - Fri. September 19th

2025 Issues arrive approximately:
> Winter - Week of Jan 20th
> Spring - Week of April 14th
> Summer - Week of July 14th
> Fall - Week of October 13th

Submit articles, flyers or ads for the next issue below.