Grassroots Publishing

Entitled Home-Grown Publishing (publishing history):

First Edition: CanTeach (Vancouver, BC), 2002.

Second Edition: BCTF Lesson Aids (Vancouver, BC), 2003.

Revised Edition (entitled Grassroots Publishing): LukivPress (Victoria, BC), 2022.

Introduction

This symposium on the subject of home-grown publishing addresses: how to create a literary journal to publish students' writing; how to develop a creative writing program (includes examples of how to publish/display students' work); and how to create and publish a specialized journal of education to provide direction for specialist teachers.

In Part One, "CHALLENGER international: A Home-Grown Literary Journal" describes how I started a literary journal to display the writing efforts of my students.

In Part Two, "Story Day: A Theoretical Model for Teaching Creative Writing in the Elementary Grades" continues the home-grown publishing theme. The model includes suggestions on how to display/publish students' work on bulletin boards and in class libraries.

In Part Three, I continue this home-grown publishing theme with a focus on the needs of specialist teachers. For example, how does a specialist teacher find direction when little seems to exist? To answer that question, I describe how I began The [Home-Grown] Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, designed to give direction to teachers, like myself, who teach high school students with socio-emotional problems. I encourage specialist teachers to apply the information in Part Three to their own circumstances and needs.

In Part Four, "Direction for Secondary Alternate Teachers: A Content-Review of The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education, Volume 1, Number 1 (Autumn 2001)" gives readers a taste of the sort of information I published in the journal's first issue.

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).