Book Review

Submit a Book Review

Clarion welcomes readers to submit a book review for publication. For such an article to be considered, it must fall within the following guidelines. It must be:

• About a book that fits with Clarion’s purpose and which would be of benefit to readers
• Clear, coherent, and readable, with a minimum of editing needed
• Written in a Christian manner, giving an honest and fair-minded evaluation of the book’s contents
• Original to the author (i.e. no plagiarism)
• A piece never yet published or, if published elsewhere, submitted with formal permission from that publication to publish in Clarion
• 600-700 words (maximum; in special cases a longer review may be permitted but this would require a discussion with Clarion’s editor-in-chief)
• Accompanied by a digital image of the book’s cover (in high resolution)
• Submitted as a Microsoft Word document (no PDFs please)
• Include the book’s full title, author, publishing information, page count, whether hard or soft cover (or paperback), and the approximate selling price in Canadian dollars. For example:
  Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History, by John Dickson. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2021). Paperback. 328 pages. Approx. $23.75 CDN.

Send your article as an attachment to bookreview@clarionmagazine.ca

To keep our workflow at Clarion efficient, only those book reviews approved for publication will be responded to indicating the same. If you do not receive a reply from Clarion within 3 weeks of submitting your review, please understand that this normally means your piece will not be published.

Request a Book Review

For those interested in having Clarion review a book, an email request naming the book and briefly describing its contents may be sent to our book review editor Rev. Wes Bredenhof at bookreview@clarionmagazine.ca. The book in question must be of the kind that fits with Clarion’s purpose and which would be of benefit to readers. Clarion reserves the right to decline such a request.

To keep our workflow at Clarion efficient, only those requests approved will be responded to indicating the same. If you do not receive a reply from Clarion within 3 weeks of submitting your request, please understand that this normally means your request has been declined.

If your suggested book is approved for review, you will be requested to send a complimentary hard copy to the book review editor or to the person he has found to undertake the review for Clarion. Electronic-only books will not, as a rule, be considered for review.