Call for Submissions: 50 Stories for Pakistan

07 September 2010
Call for Submissions: 50 Stories for Pakistan
Deadline: 19 September 2010

Once again I find myself unable to keep ignoring the need to do something. This time it is Pakistan. The United Nations estimates that twenty million people have lost their homes as a result of the flooding that started last July. And well, it is once again time to do something!

100 Stories for Haiti has raised about £4000 for the Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Appeal. I am honoured and proud of the effort put in by writers and readers in supporting the project … So, let’s do it again!

Stories for Pakistan.

Let’s put together a book of 50 stories, each no more than 500 words in length. Any subject or genre is acceptable. Let me repeat that and add some extra rules just to be clear … Blimey! Anyone would think I’d done this before!

* 500 WORDS MAXIMUM.
* ANY SUBJECT OR GENRE.
* NO MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS.
* NO EMAIL ATTACHMENTS!

Please cut & paste your story into the body of an email, include your name, postal address, email address, and (if you have one) website. Include a short bio if you have one. Short, as in, one or two paragraphs.

ANY SUBMISSIONS FAILING TO FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE RULES WILL BE INSTANTLY REJECTED.

Please send your stories to storiesforpakistan@gmail.com

Stories for Pakistan will go out as an ebook and paperback published by Big Bad Media. We will also look to producing an audiobook version, as well as a version packaged as an iPhone app.
Proceeds will go to the Red Cross Pakistan Floods Appeal.

More information here.
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