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The Way Back Podcast is brought to you by TheWayBack2Ourselves.com, with co-host and producer Edward Holmes and founder Kimberly Phinney, an English professor, author, editor, and counselor, who is a doctoral candidate in Community Care and Counseling. Her poetry collections, Of Wings and Dirt and Exalted Ground, are available wherever books are sold. She is an award-winning poet and educator, and her book on art, faith, and belonging will debut with Baker Books in 2027.
Don’t miss the news below about The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal’s submission window announcement for the Fall Collection!
Come join Kimberly as she sits down with the editors, Kimberly Kralovic, Heather Lobe Johnson, Ashley Whittemore, and Sarah Steele, of The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal from TheWayBack2Ourselves.com to discuss the NEW fall theme, ROOTED. This episode was produced for our creative community, as we deep-dive into writing craft, tips, and encouragement. We also discuss what we look for in ideal submissions to our literary journal and what we have been up to creatively. You don’t want to miss this episode. It is so full of light and creative cultivation!
If you’d like to get a feel for our journal as a writer or artist, or if you’d like to enjoy our creative offering as a reader, you can find our online journal HERE for free. And you can purchase our print journal HERE, which was a bestseller on Amazon when it debuted.
The editors speak on:
-the Cultivate Retreat and community growth
-the lit journal theme ROOTED
-offer tips on writing for the journal (and other journals)
-describe what they are looking for in your creative work (poetry, prose, photography, fine art, etc.)
-provide encouragement and notes on writing craft
-give updates on their creative journeys
-tell personal stories about what God is teaching them in this season
-share about creating and surviving through suffering seasons
-and so much more
This is an episode you won't want to miss!
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY HERE:
To hear more and connect with our community, please visit www.TheWayBack2Ourselves.com. We offer editing, counseling, teaching, and publishing services, as well as cohorts and retreats.
OUR ROOTED COMMUNITY OFFERINGS
If you’re looking for even MORE inspiration and you missed the Cultivate Retreat, you can enjoy the virtual experience by pre-ordering the recordings HERE. They will be available in early August. Hear from Stephen Roach, founder of The Breath and the Clay and Makers and Mystics, Amanda Held Opelt, author and musician, Ben Palpant, author of An Axe for the Frozen Sea with The Rabbit Room, Kimberly Phinney, professor, author, and founder of TWBTO, Deidre Braley, editor and author with Revel Books… and so many more!
THE WAY BACK TO OURSELVES LITERARY JOURNAL IS BACK!
The Cultivate Retreat left such a profound impact on our community—and in many ways, it felt like the conversation was just getting started—so we decided to continue it with this NEW edition of The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal. Whether you attended the retreat or not, this Fall’s ROOTED Collection is a gracious and expansive invitation to everyone in our greater community.
Submissions open September 1-October 1. You can learn more below from our recent Substack post and at our website’s contact page, as well as this podcast episode.
ROOTED: Our Fall Theme for The Way Back to Ourselves Literary Journal
Welcome to My Way Back, a Substack from Kimberly Phinney, writer, professor, editor, publisher, and founder of TheWayBack2Ourselves.com, a literary journal, podcast, publisher (The Way Back Books), and creative community. If you’re new, WELCOME! You are warmly invited to subscribe and join our rooted community.
DO YOU HAVE A CREATIVE DREAM? LET US HELP YOU MAKE IT A REALITY.
Did you know that TheWayBack2Ourselves.com isn’t just a website? It’s a ROOTED NETWORK OF FAITHFUL CREATIVES working together to BEAUTIFY THE WORLD. Not only do we have a publishing imprint (The Way Back Books), a podcast (The Way Back Podcast), a literary journal (The Way Back to Ourselves), and various teaching cohorts, but we also provide a RICH COLLECTIVE of CREATIVE CONSULTANTS, PUBLISHED WRITERS, and EDITORS who want to come beside you and help you answer the creative call.
JOIN MY WAY BACK NOW. YOU BELONG HERE.
Enjoying our Substack? You can get full access to My Way Back if you subscribe below. Become a paid subscriber for just $8 a month and get Kimberly Phinney’s 4-week writing course, How to Grow Your Writing Life, for FREE, as well as her NEW generative course, The Creativity Library. You’ll also get a monthly seat to Poetry University on Zoom (live and recorded) for FREE, as well as a seat to her office hours happening each month on Zoom, where Prof. Phinney teaches you about poetry, writing craft, publishing, Substack, authentic growth and readership, and more. Her writing courses, a year of Poetry University, and a year of her office hours are a $1300 value. Join the nearly 100 students today! You belong here!
My next office hours are on Sept. 10 at 8:30 pm ET on Zoom. Poetry University will meet again on Sept. 24 at 8:30 pm ET on Zoom. JOIN US!
You belong here,
me and TWBTO team
