Last weeks news was all about us preparing for Calvin, and that’s what we’re still doing 48 hours before the 2010′s Festival of Faith and Writing begins! No worries though. God has been taking care of us.
For those of you who will be at the festival, we can’t wait to see you! Beyond that, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve got in store!
Teaser Alert: Michelle Pendergrass went overboard on the movie theme for our booth. It. Will. Be. Awesome!
For those of you who can’t make it, you won’t be missing out! We’ll have pictures going up on the blog and on Facebook Thursday-Saturday, along with some video recaps every night that will feature the staff and any Relief/Diner published authors that stop by. Since we will be connected to both the website, Facebook, and Twitter all day, don’t hesitate to ask any burning questions that you might have for us. We really want you all to share in the festival fun.
Though Relief has always been blessed with great content from great writers, we have also been blessed with connections to great artists who create fantastic covers for our content to be bound within.
This issue is no exception.
Our anticipated cover art will officially show up on the blog in the next couple weeks, but we are sure that you will be able to see it in many of the pictures that will be taken at Calvin, so keep your eyes open for it!
Calvin — A week and a half awayOur hotel rooms are booked, rides coordinated, and we’re e-mail wrestling to settle who gets to see what panel at what time. The entire ccPublishing/Relief staff is anxious to get into Grand Rapids, MI next Wednesday to set up for Calvin College’s Festival of Faith and Writing. So it’s probably about time we introduce our theme…
So, it’s probably not a surprise since you’ve seen our adjusted logo for a week new, but it’s about to get a lot more interesting!
At Calvin, we will be introducing the cover of issue 4.1 as “Coming Soon” posters. We will also have business cards that look like movie tickets that will double as raffle tickets. We will be raffling two gift baskets a day that will have a copy of the journal, a 2 liter of soda, a bag of popcorn, a box of candy, and a couple of notebooks from our amazing sponsor (Quo Vadis).
For those of you who cannot make it to Calvin this year, you don’t have to miss out on the experience. Next Wednesday–Saturday, we will be uploading pictures and videos of what’s going on at the conference. This will include pictures of the new cover, staff, and published authors who stop by our booth. (We are even looking into streaming the Relief/Diner panel. No promises yet.)
For the conference, we will be tweeting from @ReliefJournal as much as possible, but don’t forget to catch tweets from ccPublshing President and Diner Editor Michelle Pendergrass (@michpendergrass), Relief Editor-in-Chief and Fiction Editor Christopher Fisher (@ReliefEditor), Poetry Editor Brad Fruhauff (@BradFruhauff), founding President and Editor Kimberly Culbertson (@KimCulbertson), and Web Editor Ian Philpot (@iphilpot).
We will also be using mobile uploads to send exclusive pictures directly to our Facebook page.
So friend us, follow us, and don’t miss out!
As you heard from Michelle on Monday, we’re all really excited about Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing. We’re going to have a special theme to our booth. To give you a hint: the theme is directly related to the logo at the top of this page. 
We can’t tell you every aspect about our booth quite yet because we don’t want to spoil the fun, but it’s going to be awesome! Register now and don’t miss us!
We have finally received a new shipment of issue 3.2! All of you who ordered issues will be receiving them soon and all new orders will be shipped after that. Click here to order one.
Issue 4.1 will also be available for order very soon! We will be opening pre-orders at a discounted price around the same time that we unveil the cover art. We are very excited about this issues as it will be the first under the new Editor-in-Chief, Christopher Fisher.
Review of 3.2“Karen” at GoodReads.com wrote a review of Relief Issue 3.2 (find it HERE). We appreciate when people write reviews of our journal, so if you have written one or want to write one, let us know so we can feature it in RNT.
A new online journal has arrived on the scene under the name: “Junk, a Literary Fix.” If you head on over to JunkLit.com, you can see the start of a brand new creative nonfiction journal headed by Tim Elhajj. While Junk is not proclaiming itself as a faith based journal, they are open to CNF from the faith perspective.
Junk is still gearing up before it’s completely launched, but in the meantime they’re doing their best to build community over at http://junklitblog.wordpress.com/, so read more about what Junk is/is looking to be there..
We’re getting closer and closer to Calvin’s Festival of Faith and Writing, and we are all so excited for it! If you haven’t signed up yet, hurry! If you are signed up, we can’t wait to see you there either during the Relief panel or at our booth.
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