This working session aims to introduce doctoral students, early career researchers and anyone interested in disseminating their work through academic journals to some general principles for publishing. It will consider how to identify appropriate publications, structure papers to develop an argument and follow this through, introduce and critically discuss key themes, and practical tasks such as how to construct an abstract, and where to seek support during the writing process. The session will also consider what makes potential academic papers psychosocial, and consider what the requirements of publishing in psychosocial publications are, using the Journal of Psychosocial Studies as the exemplar. Drawing on the experience of David Jones and myself, as the editors of JPS, and the workshop attendees in relation to their own experiences of attempting to and/or getting published, we aim to engage in a dialogue to encourage and support them in successfully negotiating this often daunting hurdle. We offered a similar session by request online in Dec 2023, which was well attended and deemed useful by participants. We hope this would make a useful contribution to the conference attendees on behalf of APS and JPS.