Expat Women of Color Call for Submissions
Thank you for taking an interest in our book submission. Please complete the book summsion form and upload your writing submission for review. Good luck!
Are you interested in telling your Expat story?
Note: We are accepting non-fiction, first person narratives for Women of Color Living Abroad (deadline posted below)
The editor is seeking original contributions from women of color who live, work, and/or study outside their country of origin for a collection of first person, non-fiction short stories. Submissions must be 1,500 to 5,000 words (this count was updated 10/7/14) and may include topics involving life/living abroad, traveling, cultural adaptation, and relationship, spirituality, leaving home, repatriation, dating, adventurous eating, pros and woes of living abroad.
*the word count has been adjust to assist shorter work, but one is able to submit up to 5,000 words
Writing for a Cause
This compilation will be published as a collection of resource books for Expat Women of Color. Expat Women of Color is an international networking association that provides personal and professional development and resources for women of color who live, work, study and travel abroad we want to help create online and hands-on products to encourage success through expat living.
As a non-profit organization, we are provide services and programs to encourage women to have the best lives no matter where they are in the world. This compilation will serve as a fundraising project for our Boarding Pass Program, which takes minority students on a summer international service-learning program to enhance intercultural knowledge, skills, and awareness and promotes travel through international exposure for students who may have never left their own communities.
The goal of this project is to raise funds to help supplement five female students participating in the Boarding Pass Program, and tell the stories of women or color who are expanding through living, working, or study abroad.
Who should submit?
We are looking for women of color who are currently or in the past have lived outside their countries of origin as an Expatriate. We encourage military, military spouses, ESL instructors, self-initiated expats (moved abroad on your own without employment backing you), corporate expats, freelance writers, photographs, etc.
Women of Color defined: We are looking for women of African descent (born on the content of Africa or outside with African heritage), Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, Native American, and Pacific Islanders.
All work should be non-fiction (true) and told from a first person narrative of their experience living, working, studying, or traveling abroad. We encourage writings that detail: leaving your country of origin, relationships (dating / friendships/ family), teaching abroad, working abroad, religion/spirituality, culture shock, home sick, repatriation (coming home), travel disappointments, being single traveling with children, never going back, etc…please make sure you show more than tell in your writing, we want the readers to be on the journey with you.
Compensation and Rights:
Writers will be paid $50 US (not much but remember it’s for a CAUSE) dollars upon acceptance of their stories. Writers will be required to sign a consent form waiving any future rights and certifying their work is original, true, previously unpublished and releasing exclusive copyrights to the publish for of submitted work. Writers will be given (1) complimentary book and a t-shirt and credit for their submitted work. No other compensation will be extended to the writer. The write will also have the ability to order copies at wholesale price to promote their work with pre-approval from the publisher.
Submissions:
- Accompany a brief bio 250 words or less
- All submissions should be (1,500 to 5,000) words long
- Times New Roman, font size (12 pt.)
- Summited in MS Word .doc format no .pdfs (pdfs will be refused)
Submission Deadlines and Tentative Release Dates
Please submit your work here or by emailing it to expatwomenofcolorbook@gmail.com. All submissions MUST be received by mid-night on October 25, 2014 (extended). If your submission has been accepted you will receive an acceptance letter with further instruction by November 30, 2014. The tentative release date is May of 2015.
>via: http://www.expatwomenofcolor.com/#!submission/c6iu