ABSTRACT
This chapter showcases and celebrates diversity around the topic of publishing. It is presented as three separate sections, reflecting the authors’ respective personal and academic histories, writing styles, and concerns. In the first section, Lydia Turner addresses questions and issues that she regards as important. These include language, the use of handbooks, and the challenge of publishing deadlines. Following this, Alec Grant presents a connected series of philosophical and political “autoethnographettes,” calling for autoethnographers to challenge publishing conventions. In the final section, Nigel Patrick Short reflexively focuses on his—often serendipitous—experiences of publishing throughout his time in mental health education and professional practice. In order to convey the dialogic nature of the chapter, sections contain in-text commentary boxes provided by the authors on each other’s work. Readers are invited to be part of, and critically extend, this conversation.
