New “editor”, also please submit

I’m Kate, and I’m a student here at UVic. This is my first year volunteering with AVP and so far this journey has been a powerful learning experience. I’m a little more of a Computer Science person, than a writer-on-the-web person, but that’s going to change. I’m really excited to be a part of the AVP website and combine my passion for webdesign with my love for this project!

Three things I learned by being a volunteer are!

1. How much I didn’t know about systemic violence (and that I didn’t know I didn’t know)
2. How much other folks in my community are also unaware of many of these issues
3. How much I care about online publishing and public discourse!

This brings me to a really important point: AVP is currently looking for contributors and submissions.

Submission guidelines

Here’s some rough guidelines if you’re considering submitting:

1. We like a wide range of topics as long as it relates tangentially to our office mandate
2. We are open to different mediums of creative expression: opinion pieces, media analysis, stories, poetry, photography, illustrations, etc.
3. We reserve the right not to publish
4. We want to edit and provide feedback of your submission, but we want to get your consent at every stage!
5. We won’t publish without you signing off on the final piece
6. We want to be encouraging and support your process as much as our tiny, busy office can manage
7. If you have an idea, or an entire article, you can send us an email with the post content in the body of the email, to
8. Put “Blog submission” in the subject of the email along with the piece. Please include a title for your piece and the author name you would like it to be published under (it doesn’t have to be your real name).

We look forward to reading your submissions!