Style Guidelines
Koinonia’s Style Guide for ‘Morning Devotions’
On writing short-form
In January 2022, Koinonia opened a new section on our publication called Morning Devotions.
If you haven’t applied to write for Koinonia, find our application at the bottom of this page.
The ultimate (future) goal is to have a devotion ready every morning (Monday — Sunday) for our readers. Let’s see how it goes in this initiative’s first months and perhaps by spring we will have a writer scheduled for each day. If there are enough interested writers, you might write on a two-week schedule, for instance.
Please pray about your participation.
Our editors will take the submissions we get in a week and schedule them. There’s no mechanism on Medium to show that your post has been officially scheduled, so you will have to trust the process. Our editors won’t have time to notify writers about the scheduling process each week. You’ve already noticed we publish your work faster than many other publications, right?
Why 150 words?
Short-form writing gained significant traction in the last year or so. Medium actually began curating this format for further distribution in 2021. Writing short-form takes…