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Day of Scholarship

Publishing Breakout Session

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Zac Settle,

Editor-in-Chief of

The Other Journal

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Lauren St. Martin,

Managing Editor of

Christ & Cascadia

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Welcome

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• Welcome & intros
• A little about the journals
• Why publish?
• Tips for aspiring authors
• Q & A

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Our time today

Who we are:

Christ & Cascadia seeks to inspire innovative faith practice and the exchange of ideas among Christ followers—to explore, imagine, and create the future of Christianity in Cascadia.

More on About page

What we publish:

• Essays
• Reviews & responses
• Creative writing
• Visual or performance art

We are particularly interested in works which present innovative, alternative models of Christian practice.

https://christandcascadia.com/

Who we are:

Attempting to remain a step or two more popular than the typical scholarly journal and a step or two more scholarly than the typical popular magazine, our goal is to provides readers with provocative, challenging, nuanced Christian writing on social issues, politics, cultural trends, pop phenomena, and theological ideas of the highest caliber.

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What we publish:

Each issue of The Other Journal is organized around a particular theme, and includes writing in a wide variety of genres: essays, book reviews, poems, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and original art.

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• Writing is part of your education process�
• Use what you’re already doing to build out your resume and create shareable resources

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• Improve your communication skills

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• Clarify your thinking

Why Publish?

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• Develop your network

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• Break down silo-ing that happens in higher education

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• Prepare for the professional world

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• Synthesize the massive amount of information you encounter in grad school�

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Why Publish?

Tips for Aspiring Authors

• Find your own voice. It’s all you’ve got.

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• Clarity is king.

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• Less summary, more original argumentation. Ask yourself “what’s the new thing I’m trying to say?”

The Other Journal

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• Focus in on the introduction. More often than not (with some stylistic and genre exceptions), I should be able to tell what you’re arguing and how you’re going to defend that thesis by the time I finish an introduction.

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• As often as you can, signal to the reader where we are, why we’re here, and where we are going.

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Tips for Aspiring Authors

• Know your audience & what you want them to take away

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• Be concise

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• Show, don’t tell (or show what you tell)

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Christ & Cascadia

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• Be open to feedback

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• Ask someone to read it before you submit it

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• More on our website: https://christandcascadia.com/submit/ )

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The Other Journal

• Read an issue to get the feel and tone of a TOJ piece.

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• Check out our latest call for papers and see if anything in the prompt generates ideas or overlaps with a project you’re working on.

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• On our submissions page, click the submit button and complete the corresponding form.

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• If the submission is accepted, we will walk you through a multi-step editorial and proofing process ahead of proofing and publication.

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Christ & Cascadia

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• Review guidelines on website: https://christandcascadia.com/submit/

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• Submit a 4-5 sentence description of your idea to christcascadia@theseattleschool.edu

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• Include your full name, location, short bio (under 100 words), and headshot

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• If your idea is accepted, we will work with you to flesh it out and edit your writing. Usually 3 rounds of revisions.

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Process for submission and edits

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Questions?

• Contact Zac at zsettle@theseattleschool.edu
• Submit to TOJ at https://theotherjournal.com/submissions/

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• Contact Lauren at lpattie@theseattleschool.edu
• Submit to C&C at christcascadia@theseattleschool.edu

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Thank you!