How to build a project management system that fits your real, messy, and embodied life—including how to stop doing what isn't working.
Last checks and confirmations to run on your documents before submitting a book proposal to an academic publisher for consideration
Check out the revamped and expanded Introduction to Professional Academic Editing course to build your academic editing career.
Tips for refreshing your courses semester to semester to keep things compelling, improving, and relevant to the current moment.
Tips on preparing for fall semester during a pandemic, including accessible online teaching and public engagement during social distancing.
How to review your book's index draft: what to check, how to evaluate quality, what can be modified, and how to request changes
The Imagine Otherwise crew is taking a much-needed July break but will be back in August with awesome new episodes.
Strategies for writing during the pandemic that foreground radical self-compassion, creativity, and resourcefulness in the face of change.
Public Engagement and Impact is a self-paced, online course that teaches you how to take your work to new audiences and make change beyond the academy.
How to Start an Academic Podcast is a self-paced, online course that helps scholars go from a great idea to a published show.
Best coauthoring and collaborative writing practices, including finding partners, setting and reaching goals, and anticipating and navigating challenges.
How to set up virtual writing accountability systems that give you the social support, inspiration, and accountability to finish your writing projects.
How to set up a publishing pipeline and productive procrastination plan to reach your professional goals over the long term.
Catherine Fung shares how leaving academia let her find abundance, creativity, and a fulfilling and intellectually vibrant career.
Why the publisher of your first book might not necessarily be the best fit for your second book and how to find the press that is.
How faculty can reframe office hours to ensure a transformative effect on students, faculty, and the culture of academia more broadly.
From choosing a meeting frequency to figuring what kind of feedback members would benefit most from, here's what to consider when starting a writing group.
How to set holistic, compassionate, and social justice-oriented new year resolutions for writers that help you get your projects done.
It's tempting to view winter break as a chance to catch up on everything you didn't get to in the fall. But what if you used it to *actually* rest?
A celebration of our 2019 projects, including client books and articles editing/indexed, new team members, podcast episodes, and more.
Thank you to all the department coordinators, procurement staff, vendor managers, and administrative assistants we've worked with in 2019.
Client books in transgender studies, cultural studies, art history, sound studies, political science, communication, queer theory, and more.
Learn strategies to manage the end-of-term crunch with energy to spare, avoid burnout, and lay the groundwork for a relaxing and productive winter break.
Learn how to articulate academic service priorities to yourself and colleagues and say no and yes in ways that align with your values and support your career.
Tips on how to organize your computer desktop, including building a file system that works for you, and utilizing your task bar and trash folder.
How we're celebrating Peer Review Week 2019, which showcases the importance of peer review in scholarly publishing and knowledge production.
Tips for teaching toward inclusive excellence, including writing the syllabus, planning the first day of class, and leading classroom discussions.
Practical techniques for taking notes that ensure you can find, understand, expand, and use them later in your various projects.
Learn how to foster intellectual community in academic workplaces using reading and writing groups, engaging mentorship, and other strategies.
How to get started with interdisciplinary oral history, including researching formats, finding training, and critically reflecting on power dynamics.
Strategies to write a student-centered syllabus that also saves you time as an instructor—from day one until the end of the term.
Dismantle Magazine's interview with Ideas on Fire CEO Cathy Hannabach about building a feminist editing and indexing agency.
Major themes at the 2019 Editors Canada conference included diversity in editing, the importance of plain language, and sensitivity reading.
How creative writing techniques can deepen classroom discussions, improve academic texts, and expand your own scholarly thinking.
Learn how to move to a new city, settle in, and make any place feel like home—no matter how contingent the position or temporary the stay.
An overview of online remote teaching opportunities for PhDs seeking more flexibility and options in their teaching careers.
3-week online workshop for scholars wanting to build their public scholarship profile, reach wider and more diverse audiences, and get paid for their work.
Learn best practices for doing community-engaged scholarship and teaching, including answers to those thorny ethical questions often provoked by this work.
Tips on editing footnotes and endnotes, helping authors decide between them, keeping up with citation style changes, and curbing overcitation.
Strategies and tactics for improving mental health in academia by providing resources to students, faculty, and staff and prioritizing wellness.
Strategies to avoid the siren song of academic busyness, preserve your time, and finally take those weekends off—for real.
Strategies for surviving job burnout in the academy and beyond, including continuing on when you'd rather do just about anything else.
How to use recursive outlines for writing projects to keep your writing on track while also making room for your ideas to evolve.
Part instructional session, part love letter to literature's favorite hangers-on. How to edit, use, and love footnotes and endnotes.
A behind-the-scenes look at how Dismantle Magazine co-founders Elise Chatelain and Sara Tatyana Bernstein are turning their side project into a career.
How archival sources can enrich the learning experience and tips on creating assignments that show the political and intellectual stakes of the archive.
How to make career decisions in an era of uncertainty and with limited information, and learn to live with those choices even as circumstances change.
How to write a great author bio or speaker bio that introduces you to specific audiences and brings in professional opportunities.
