Tag Archives: On Writing

Treading Upon the Sacred: A Guest Post on Writing by Judy Carlson

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

Readers of A Pilgrim in Narnia know that I like to feature indie and small-press authors from time to time. Judy Carlson’s The White Knight, the Lost Kingdom, and the Sea Princess was published by Nordskog in 2015. Here she reflects upon … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Guest Blogs | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Judy Carlson, literature, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, On Writing, Past Watchful Dragons, publishing, The White Knight, writing | 5 Comments

A Lament for the Loss of Young Teachers

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Last week I wrote a post about the problems of the lack of women in academic publishing, using my favourite publisher, Zondervan, as a test case for the conversation. Senior editor Katya Covrett responded, setting the problem of academic publishing … Continue reading →

Posted in On Writing, Original Research, Reflections, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged academic, art, Education, higher education, Mr. Holland's Opus, On Writing, publishing, Richard Dreyfuss, Teaching, theology, Theology of Culture, University, Zondervan | 25 Comments

What I Learned about Gender (and Diversity) from Christian Academic Publishing by Katya Covrett

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

I recently shared on A Pilgrim in Narnia “What I Learned about Gender from the Zondervan Catalogue.” I noted that only 1 in 10 authors advertised by my favourite academic publisher were women. I set the context of a male-dominated … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blogs, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged academic, gender, On Writing, publishing, theology, Zondervan | 20 Comments

A 3 Day Novel Contest Post-mortem: Thoughts After my 7th 3DNC

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

For the 7th consecutive year I have been a contestant in the International 3-Day Novel Writing Contest. This is literally the exercise of writing a full novel in 72 hours. No extensions, no extra time, no time outs. This is … Continue reading →