Call for Submissions for The Worlds Within: An Anthology of TCK Writing and Art

28 June 2012
Call for Submissions for The Worlds Within: An Anthology of TCK Writing and Art
Deadline: 15 October 2012

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THE WORLDS WITHIN – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TCK ART AND WRITING: YOUNG, GLOBAL AND BETWEEN CULTURES

Eva Laszlo-Herbert, Jo Parfitt and Cerine Jin are compiling an anthology of TCK art and writing, as a first volume of a bigger project, which aims to make the lives and stories of worldwide TCKs and TCAs visible and graspable.

They plan to launch it in March 2013, at the 2013 Annual Conference of Families in Global Transition (www.figt.org) in Silver Spring, MD, USA.

The Anthology: We will select up to 100 contributions and publish them at Summertime Publishing, a publishing company that specialises in book by and for people living abroad. www.summertimepublishing.com.

SUBMISSIONS

We look forward to receiving high resolution art work and written submissions – from haiku to short story – of up to 2000 words, on any aspect of TCK life, by authors who were younger than 27 at the moment of writing.

The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2012.

Submissions can be sent to TCKTheWorldsWithin@gmail.com, in plain Times New Roman 12 font. Artwork will be published in black and white and must be submitted in the highest possible resolution.

Authors, aged 0-27, have the explicit right to remain anonymous or submit their work using a nom-de-plume.

Minimum requirements that need to accompany submissions: A name, the age when the submitted work was created, countries the author has lived in and a three word motto, which is relevant to their life (Eva’s, for example is: connect – contribute – celebrate). If desired, they may add any information – website, blog, email, twitter – by which their art / writing can be followed, for example: Jane Chen, 12, Korea, Australia; positive, thoughtful, expressive; www.janesblog.com, @janesblog

The texts will be organised by age.

THE ANTHOLOGY: We will select up to 100 contributions and publish them at Summertime Publishing, a publishing company that specialises in book by and for people living abroad. www.summertimepublishing.com. The cover features art work by Beth Eisinger, a TCK artist who grew up in the Midwest, Germany and Turkey.

All submissions will be presented to The Expatriate Archive Centre in The Hague, The Netherlands, where they will be preserved and available to the public for future reading and research.

We truly hope that our project will inspire you to become a promoter and a multiplicator. Please spread the word within your networks – locally and globally.

Contact us at TCKTheWorldsWithin@gmail.com or by calling +31.65.365.31.21 and let us know how we can make this project better, and more meaningful.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

For queries/ submissions: TCKTheWorldsWithin@gmail.com

Website: https://theworldswithintckanthology.wordpress.com
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