CWR ACADEMY WEBINAR
PUBLISHING FOR CATHOLIC SISTERS
JUNE 6, 2024
Many Catholic sisters are interested in publishing articles and books. In this webinar Carole Sargent shares case studies of how she has guided Dominican, SHCJ, and RSCJ sisters to publication through her office at Georgetown University. Beyond books and articles, sisters can contribute personal histories, anecdotes for use in various publications and on social media, and even Wikipedia pages (Sargent has a feminist Wikipedia project underway). She provides an overview of a range of projects, and addresses participants’ questions.
This webinar is jointly presented by Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious and Communicators for Women Religious.
RESOURCES
All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, – Orbis Books
Megan Rice: Witness to Peace: Dennis Coday: 9780814637227 – Christianbook.com
2024 Winners 11-20 | Nautilus Book Awards
Liturgical Press: Deepening the Faith and Knowledge of a Richly Diverse Church (litpress.org)
Home | Wipf and Stock Publishers
Loyola Press: A Jesuit Ministry: Catholic Religious Education Publisher
Global Sisters Report | A Project of National Catholic Reporter
Carole Sargent | Global Sisters Report
So, You Want to Write a Spirituality Book? – Jesuit Media Lab
The Elements of Story – HarperCollins
Sister Megan Rice: A Catholic Activist Who Saw Nuclear Weapons as a Social Injustice – POLITICO
Dennis Coday | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
Christine Schenk | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
Why notable Catholic sisters need Wikipedia pages, and how to create them | Global Sisters Report
PRESENTER
Carole Sargent, Ph.D.
Founding Director, Office of Scholarly Publications
Georgetown University
Carole Sargent, Ph.D., is founding director of the Office of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University, where she guides faculty researchers to book and article publication. Through this work, she developed a personal vocation helping Catholic sisters and priests publish, and she will work with anyone in full-time religious life without charge. She has an open door for various vowed lay vocations as well, as she is an associate of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ).
Sargent spent three years guiding Sr. Jeanne Clark, OP, to write All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming (Orbis Press), oversaw the audiobook, and has guided many other sisters. Among the Catholic books she has written are Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press) and a book-in-progress about Ardeth Platte, OP. With Jesuit Fr. Drew Christiansen. She co-edited the award-winning A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (2020) and Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), both from Georgetown University Press.
Sargent writes about sisters for The National Catholic Reporter, Global Sisters Report, and Commonweal, and she also gets sisters’ stories into the mainstream media, such as Politico, the BBC, and The Boston Globe. She is eager to think with you about the publishing goals of your sisters and also your own goals, and she is often available for collegial conversations and brainstorming about publishing.