Mostly I want you to read it when we publish the first issue in the spring. Your undying love and support, of course. And, too, let’s be honest: The bar for “Christian art” is set unbelievably low. Plus, Greater Sum fills a niche that other journals aren’t right now. I spent a couple years as senior editor at a small publishing house and have worked on several lit journals over the years, and there is nothing more gratifying to me both personally and professionally than establishing a good relationship with a writer and helping that writer make their work better. Most of my clients are businesses, but I have a few individual writers/authors I work with, and I love those close artistic relationships. See, in addition to being a full-time dad, I run an editorial and consulting business called Corder Creative. I have skills and gifts that can be put to use. (We have nothing against poets we also don’t publish many other forms of writing.) We believe good art and faith can and should mix. There are some other journals doing this, but Greater Sum is for prose only. We want content that explores, demolishes, analyzes, longs for the idea of faith.
Not in the Judeo-Christian line, necessarily, though that’s my own background. How is it different from the bazillion other literary journals out there?įor one, it’s specifically focused on the idea of faith. The goal is to provide a forum for work about a particular subject matter and to prompt discussion and reflection thereon.
We’ll publish twice yearly in print, with occasional content online. Here is one brief history/description, and here is another.) (For you non-writers or non-MFA folks, it’s a magazine, a book, a collection of stories by a bunch of writers.
“And what’s that?” you might rightfully ask. Who are they? They’re the writers who will be published in the first issue of Greater Sum. Truth is I don’t know most of them yet, either.