Empowering Diverse Voices

Publishing in Color (PIC) hosts a network of talented publishing staffers and remarkable freelancers for the growth of ethnic diversity in Christian publishing.

PIC encourages, equips, and comes alongside to offer techniques and tools for telling individuals’ stories.

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Our Beliefs

  • We believe in one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

  • We believe God inspired the Old and New Testament scriptures, that the scriptures are without error in the original manuscripts, are fulfilled in Christ, and are the revelation of our creation, fall, redemption, and restoration.

  • We believe Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, the only begotten Son of God, and the perfect revelation of the Father.

  • We believe in Jesus’ virgin birth, sinless life, sacrificial death, bodily resurrection, ascension to the Father, and triumphant return.

  • We believe that, as a result of the fall, we need salvation from sin and eternal death. God graciously provided this salvation through Jesus, who alone reconciles all who repent of their sin and put their faith in Him.

  • We believe it is by the Holy Spirit that we are convicted of sin and led, through repentance and new birth, into the family of God to live and grow in Christlikeness, in trust in God, and in love for others.

  • We believe in one church, expressed through local bodies of God’s family, made up of all who are in Christ, and who together are commissioned to make Christ-followers of all nations.

  • We believe in the return of our Lord to bring the fullness of His kingdom, to judge the living and the dead, and to restore the peace and joy of His creation.

  • We believe in making the Bible accessible to all.

Inspiration

Joyce Dinkins

Joyce Dinkins loves to grow ethnic Christian content through Publishing in Color. David C. Cook recruited her to develop and launch the Echoes curriculum. NavPress hired Joyce as Current Thoughts & Trends editor. Woman’s Missionary Union book publisher, New Hope, recruited her as managing editor.

Our Daily Bread Ministries sought her as Our Daily Bread devotional executive editor, and founding editor of VOICES. She has served the boards of the Academy of Christian Editors, the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association, and writers conferences across the US. Her published writing includes Not Easily Broken: Wisdom on Dating and Marriage with Christ at the Center (ODBP, 2026), coauthored with her husband, Steven. They have three adult children. She has a masters in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in technology (Colorado Christian University) and a BA in English with very high honors (Northern Michigan University).

Assistant Director & Visionary Artist

David Dinkins

David Dinkins  co-directs Publishing in Color, is content advisor, and since 2023, his illustrations have adorned our website. His additional responsibilities include management of all site media, website development, public speaking, and he writes, edits, and performs sensitivity reads as a freelancer.
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His illustration work has also been featured in the Birmingham Fine Arts museum, at publishing websites, and has been auctioned for missions fund raisers. David began winning awards as a public speaker in middle and high school, and that led to invitations to be on platform at colleges and behind the pulpit in churches. He now speaks at Publishing in Color conferences, and the Evangelical Press Association
annual convention recently included him as a workshop speaker. He has studied at the University of Alabama. David is an Evangelical Christian Publishing Association Emerging Leader.

See him on Instagram @lil_red_bird, and at Publishing in Color.

Publishing in Color

Our History

Joyce Dinkins became owner and director of Publishing in Color (PIC) in 2023, after serving PIC since 2017. She prayed with founder Brian Allain as he had sought wise counselors before launching PIC. Joyce provided a keynote at the first PIC conference in New Jersey in 2018, and served as a workshop leader at the PIC conferences held in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Milwaukee, and virtually since 2020. She has also served with the Evangelical Christian Publishing Association (ECPA) since 2022 to cultivate more opportunities for all ethnicities, including through the ECPA “Open Door” internships and the “Emerging Leader” mentoring program. The QR code here connects individuals with ECPA career opportunities. Joyce is a member of and former board member of the Academy of Christian Editors.
Joyce shares her story and her passion for Publishing in Color in “Lift Every Voice,” on the “Where Ya From?” podcast of Our Daily Bread Ministries Voices Collection.
David Dinkins joined PIC as an advisor in 2023 and is now assistant director.
Brian Allain, our founder, retired as director in 2022. In 2024, he launched Find Your Next Calling (FYNC) to support women, people of color, and pastors with weekly support and discussion meetings and an online course.

Testimonials

What attendees discover at Publishing in Color

“Publishing in Color (PIC) is undeterred from its mission to bring all voices into Christian publishing.”
Ann Byle
Publishers Weekly
“Thank you for the resources and contact with other authors/poets, and the genuineness.”
ChuChu
“This conference was groundbreaking. Every keynote, workshop, one-on-one, lunch conversation, business card exchange, and photograph taken broke up the soil in my writing that had begun to dry out and harden. I emerge from this conference with fresh soil ready to be tilled and cultivated to bear fruit.”
Donna
“I thoroughly enjoyed the conference. It was very insightful and encouraging. I am confident that the Lord has ordered my steps. And significant relationships and connects are being established as a result of the conference.”
Francine
“A game-changer . . . speakers, content, and one-on-ones consistently encourage, equip, and inspire me.”
Terry
“I am grateful for the positive impact PIC and this wonderful community of diverse Christian writers and publishing professionals has had on my writing journey.”
Marie Chan
“I have no words to express how thankful I am that I chose to attend.”
Sohani
“Thank you for a wonderful conference!”
Maryam
“Words are not enough to fully express the life changing impact that this conference had on me as an up and coming writer.”
Monica
“The workshop was more than I expected. I learned so much and met a lot of amazing publishing houses, agents, editors, magazines and amazing guest speakers.”
Toussaint
“Every aspect of the conference was a first class experience. The warm, inviting, and informative environment of the conference made me comfortable enough to enjoy and fully experience the plethora of opportunities you provide.”
Reginald
“This conference has opened up a significant new door in ministry for me.”
Lorri
“Attending Publishing in Color was truly a transformative experience. The conference helped to inspire and laser focus my vision by introducing me to people who could help birth my book into the world.”
Terry