CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Category: ROOTS
Call #1: Root Digging
In the 21st century, the age of technology, there is a startling disconnection between teens and their elders. Some are lost on how the past of their ancestors is relevant to their futures. As a solution, this writing call puts teens in the face of their pasts so that they can address, then re-tell, the significance of their ancestral inheritances.
The challenge is to interview, research and document family histories, in writing. We are looking for memoirs, scripts, short stories, novels, epics (long narrative poems), songs, essays that allow the elderly to preserve, clarify, correct, confirm, or add to the rich, historical records of their families, in print, that will speak for them when they are gone.
Before you submit, we encourage you to register for our genealogy workshop to help with your journey.
The challenge is to interview, research and document family histories, in writing. We are looking for memoirs, scripts, short stories, novels, epics (long narrative poems), songs, essays that allow the elderly to preserve, clarify, correct, confirm, or add to the rich, historical records of their families, in print, that will speak for them when they are gone.
Before you submit, we encourage you to register for our genealogy workshop to help with your journey.
Call #2: May-December Melody
Take a historical journey down memory lane in pictures that tell, not where the story started, but where the story arrived. We're looking for the most stunning images of the elderly. Think you got a shot? We want it! Shoot it! Draw it! Sketch it! Sculpt it!
Call #3: If I Had an Hour
Find an image of an elderly person and write their story, in any genre, fiction or nonfiction. Include the image with your submission. The catch? Try to write your piece within an hour. Only you will know how long you actually took, but it's a challenge-to-self.