{"id":28054,"date":"2026-04-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2026-03-30T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:20:56","slug":"camosun-students-get-ready-for-the-point-issue-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2026\/04\/01\/camosun-students-get-ready-for-the-point-issue-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun students get ready for The Point<\/em> issue launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camosun students and staff are getting ready to launch the latest issue of the college\u2019s literary journal, The Point<\/i>. The journal is set to feature a number of creative works, including poems, short stories, and photographs, all of which have been submitted by Camosun students, faculty, and alumni. And for a lot of the writers, this will be their first step into the spotlight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor many people, it\u2019s the first time that any piece of creative work by them has gone through that process, and it can be hard to do it for the first time,\u201d says Camosun Creative Writing instructor Micaela Maftei. \u201cBut I\u2019m going to say\u2014and this is, like, my educated guess\u201499.9 percent of people who have their work in The Point<\/i> find it a constructive, helpful, and fun process. So it\u2019s nice to be a part of that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Readers at a previous launch event for Camosun\u2019s literary journal The Point<\/em>, which was formerly known as Beside the Point<\/em> (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This launch\u2014which takes place from 5:00 to 6:30 pm on Wednesday, April 8 in the Young Building\u2019s Gibson Auditorium\u2014will showcase the journal\u2019s first issue under its new name, having recently shifted from Beside the Point<\/i> to simply The Point<\/i>. The new name strives to complement this wide collection of creative work more meaningfully.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Beside the point\u2019 does basically mean irrelevant, or not primary,\u201d says Maftei. \u201cSo, I mean, it\u2019s a clever name, but, you know, that is what it means. And in discussion with the group that really spearheaded the name change, we started talking about lots of different understandings of \u2018the point\u2019… For a lot of [students], the point of what they\u2019re doing is to publish their own work, or to work in editing and publishing\u2026 That\u2019s the point. That\u2019s why they\u2019re here. That\u2019s why they\u2019re doing what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creative Writing student Mel Ozard is a perfect example of this, as it was her love of writing that led her all the way to Maftei\u2019s classroom, where she assisted in publishing The Point<\/i> alongside the rest of her CRWR-162 classmates. And in just a few months spent behind the curtain, her perspective on the creative process has changed immensely.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou tend to assume that there\u2019s rules in place and that people, you know, like their structure. But really, it\u2019s so subjective,\u201d says Ozard. \u201cSomebody… likes one piece [that] three other people might absolutely hate. And I think that\u2019s probably the biggest thing I\u2019ve come to see [while working on The Point<\/i>], just the subjectiveness of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme has proven to be quite subjective: \u201cbrink.\u201d And while one might think the possibilities of this prompt are vast and many, the submissions have told a different story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought \u2018brink\u2019 was just as open to kind of positive, lighthearted interpretations as maybe darker, heavier ones, but there\u2019s been a real trend to the darkness,\u201d says Maftei. \u201cThere\u2019s been a great breadth of ways that contributors have seen it, and there have been some more positive ones, but there is a lot of intensity. And that might really reflect how people feel about the world right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those feelings do differ from person to person, with factors like identity, culture, and experience all playing their part. And while the initial process of selecting work for publication was anonymous, the content itself has ensured a level of diversity that represents as many students as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know there\u2019s definitely some queer voices that are being represented,\u201d says Ozard. \u201cWomen\u2019s voices, as well. The college itself has a lot of diversity\u2026 and people tend to be drawn to what they know, right? So I would like to think that we\u2019ve created a journal that represents a lot of different voices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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