Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression

Relief News Tuesday

Written by Coach Culbertson

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Mixing Business and Pleasure while Relief’s Editors “Vacation”

Many of Relief’s editors have enjoyed vacation-like trips to neat places over the past week, though Assistant Editor Heather von Doehren would be quick to point out that none of us took vacations that didn’t include working at least part of the time.

Ben (Coach) and I traveled to Orlando, Florida so that he could attend Microsoft’s big TechEd conference. Before we left, Heather and I managed to squeeze in a meeting in which we used a high tech (see picture) method of discerning the order of work for the upcoming August issue, so while I didn’t attend the conference, I did make some serious headway on the layout between hammock naps, a spa treatment, and Universal Studios. I also had the pleasure to lunch with Britt Staton, a fan of Relief and hard-hitting Christian writing, and general kindred spirit. I’m trying to recruit her for a future anthology project, so stay tuned. Just for fun, I’m including a photo of our Technical Editor, Coach, go-carting.

Our CNF and Assistant Editor, Lisa Ohlen Harris, hit the mountains of Colorado with her family this week, but still managed to email back and forth with possible proofreaders, and of course, with us  For your vacation reading list, you might want to check out Lisa’s recent publications in the summer issues of The Journal , The Jabberwock Review , and Under the Sun . Congrats, Lisa!

Our Fiction Editor, Alan Ackmann, has been in Daytona reading AP exams for eight hours a day. Click over to his blog to read an interesting tidbit about the phrase “This is Sparta!” and how it is affecting his grading experience. Our Poetry Editor, Brad Fruhauff, has recently been in Louisville, Kentucky grading a separate section of the AP exams, scoffing at the idea that Florida beaches are somehow better than Kentucky, um… horses? Hills? Well anyway, we hope we get them back to reading Relief work instead of high school work very soon 

Where is my May Issue of Relief?

I wish I knew. Just kidding—it’s being printed as I type. We’re hoping to ship by the end of next week so get ready to check your mail boxes. Rest assured, though, that the August issue is on schedule so far, more so than any previous issue of Relief (Seventh times a charm?) so you should still be receiving it in August. Prayers help, so feel free to send them our way at any time 

Diner Editors--Go!

The Diner Editorial Team through the magic of technology congregated to make some major decisions about acceptances from the short list. Not all decisions are made just yet, even though they did spend three hours connnecting from across the nation and around the globe (literally) to talk about what will be going into the second edition of the Diner. There were some tough decisions, some easy decisions, and some decisions that will be made later this week.

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