{"id":22469,"date":"2022-04-07T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=22469"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T16:13:25","slug":"camosun-literary-journal-beside-the-point-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2022\/04\/07\/camosun-literary-journal-beside-the-point-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun literary journal Beside the Point<\/em> returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun\u2019s literary journal Beside the Point<\/i> is returning this year with its ninth edition, which will be launched on April 14. Students in Creative Writing 159, taught by Micaela Maftei, have been working through the semester to select, curate, and edit submissions, all of which were sent in from Camosun students. This is Maftei\u2019s first year teaching the course, and the journal is returning after a year on hold because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my first year doing it and it\u2019s been wonderful,\u201d says Maftei. \u201cThere\u2019s been some changes, a lot\u2019s been happening behind the scenes, and now we\u2019re back in business. We are very glad to finally be back, have a class, have a journal, have a hard copy, and have a launch where we can share it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College students working on the Camosun literary journal Beside the Point<\/em> (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the beginning of the semester, Maftei released a call for submissions that was published online and printed on posters that were distributed across the campus; however, the impact of the pandemic made promotion difficult.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been quite difficult for the past two years to promote it consistently because there\u2019s been a lot of change, and people\u2019s attention has been pulled in many different directions,\u201d explains Maftei. \u201cWe\u2019re coming into a new… well, returning to, a new era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maftei says \u201creturning\u201d because that\u2019s the theme of this year\u2019s journal. And, despite the hurdles, she\u2019s very happy with the variety of submissions that the class was able to collect.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s creative nonfiction, there\u2019s fiction, there\u2019s poetry, there\u2019s artwork, there\u2019s a fantasy piece,\u201d she says. \u201cThe theme this year is \u2018returning,\u2019 which we thought was kind of an interesting one given how the course is returning, the journal is returning, and there\u2019s just a lot of things coming back. And there\u2019s a lot of really interesting ways that writers and artists have approached that theme.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the submissions came in, the class then had to select which ones to include in the journal. Maftei says the selections are based on a variety of factors, including how the piece relates to the theme and whether they fit cohesively with other selected works. Following that, students split up into committees, based on genre, to begin the editing process.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we have decided what submissions we\u2019d like to include, students will perform some editing,\u201d she says. \u201cThe big, more significant, macro edits they\u2019ll articulate in a response to authors. We\u2019ll work with authors for maybe more structural edits that we think would benefit the piece, and then the committees will also do micro-edits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Student Kaylee MacQueen was part of the fiction committee. She says that her goals for the course\u2014getting more experience with the fundamentals of editing\u2014were met, and says that she enjoyed the collaborative process.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving some communication with the original author, and having it be a group standpoint was great because then I had people to bounce off of, people to agree with, and provide more suggestions for how we wanted to improve the pieces,\u201d says MacQueen. \u201cWe have a diverse array of different types of writing, so it\u2019ll be great to see that in the journal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The class will be hosting the launch event on Thursday, April 14, at Na\u2019tsa\u2019maht Indigenous Plant Garden on the Lansdowne campus, where attendees can purchase a copy of the journal. The launch will include live readings and art showings of pieces featured in the journal. Maftei says that they are in the process of working with the Lansdowne bookstore to ensure they have some copies available for purchase as well. See camosun.ca\/beside-the-point<\/a> for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun\u2019s literary journal Beside the Point is returning this year with its ninth edition, which will be launched on April 14. Students in Creative Writing 159, taught by Micaela Maftei, have been working through the semester to select, curate, and edit submissions, all of which were sent in from Camosun students. This is Maftei\u2019s first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-april-6-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22471,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions\/22471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}