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Journal Interest Meeting


Hosted by Unlocked Digital
📅 Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 🕖 7:00 PM–8:15 PM EST
📍 Zoom CLICK HERE FOR LINK
🎟️ Free – Registration link coming soon via Eventbrite

Help Us Reimagine the Pages of Purpose, Culture & Creativity

Are you a poet with passion? A storyteller with a style segment? A journalist, educator, student, or digital voice with something to say?
Join us for an exclusive virtual Interest Meeting for new and returning contributors to Unlocked Digital Journal—a bold, purpose-driven publication that blends faith, innovation, and culture for a new generation.

This is your open door to join a movement of thinkers, dreamers, and culture shapers shaping narratives in print and pixels.

🎯 What to Expect:

🗓️ Walkthrough of the 2025–2026 Editorial Calendar
📖 Learn about upcoming issue themes, submission prompts, and publication cycles
🧠 Editorial Coaching and 💰 Stipend Included opportunities
🖊️ Q&A on submissions (written, visual, digital), contributor expectations, and feedback
📰 Explore how you can write about more than just faith—fashion, sports, wellness, local stories, tech, food, education, and art are welcome!

🧩 Why It Matters:

Unlocked Digital is building a living, breathing journal of impact. We’re not just publishing devotionals—we’re publishing destinies.
We need your perspective, your voice, and your style to shape the next wave of spiritually grounded, culturally relevant, and creatively disruptive content.

💡 2025-2026 Themes Include:

  • Innovation Moving Forward: Redefining Work

  • Revolutionary War: Impact Then and Now

  • Divine Disruption: Voices in the World

  • Fashion: Styled by Purpose

  • AI: Tech Talk for the Digital Playing Field

  • The Food Issue: Taste & Sole Food

  • Unlocked Legacy: Renaissance in the Present Tense

🧠 Who Should Attend?

  • Aspiring and experienced writers

  • Youth and college creatives

  • Journalists, poets, and digital storytellers

  • Artists, designers, photographers, and cultural commentators

  • Educators, editors, and faith-driven thinkers

✍️ Let's Create Together

Don't miss this opportunity to plug into a powerful collective. Together, we’ll liven up the journal, coaching rising talent, and spotlight voices of innovation.


AGENDA

Let’s Reimagine Purpose, Culture & Creativity — Together!

7:00 PM – Welcome & Vibe Check
Meet the Unlocked Digital Team
• Quick intro to who we are and why this matters
• What makes this journal bold, faith-fueled, and future-focused

7:05 PM – Icebreaker: "Pages of Me"
Each guest drops 3 words in the chat that describe their creative voice
A few are spotlighted to share what drives their storytelling or art
Surprise shoutouts + digital door prize giveaway

7:15 PM – Editorial Vision & 2025–2026 Themes
Take a tour of the upcoming editorial calendar
• Fresh topics like AI & Soul, Styled by Faith, Taste & Sole Food, and more
• Opportunities to write, design, photograph, and create impact

7:30 PM – How to Contribute
Submissions 101: What we’re looking for & how to pitch
Editorial coaching support
Stipends + spotlighting your work in a national platform

7:45 PM – Contributor Spotlight: Real Voices, Real Impact
Hear from current Unlocked contributors
• What it’s like to publish with purpose
• Behind the scenes of their creative process

7:55 PM – Q&A: Ask Us Anything!
Open time for your questions—content ideas, deadlines, feedback, more

8:10 PM – Next Steps & Invitation to Create
Recap of how to register and submit
Get connected: Email, social, and contributor platform
Special preview of our first theme drop

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