How does it feel to have
been raised for as long as you can remember here in the U.S., pledged
allegiance dutifully with your classmates, shared their aspirations and
expectations and now face the prospect of deportation - to a country to which you
may have no personal, social, cultural or national allegiance?What will you take with you as your
understanding of the U.S. and the values it proposes if or when you are
forcibly returned to you country of birth?What steps have you taken to stay here legally?What values and experiences inform your
struggles to gain citizenship?How
do all these experiences, both positive and negative, define how you understand
culture, nationality, personal agency and civic allegiance?
We invite submissions of
memoirs and creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry on this theme by people
who have been raised and educated in the U.S. and feel they are naturalized
Americans - and would become legal ones if they could.
JOIN US IF YOU HAVE AN INTERESTING STORY TO SHARE - EVEN
IF YOUR DON'T LIKE TO WRITE. We are also conducting personal
interviews for people who may not feel comfortable writing themselves, so
if you want to share your story, please call us - 404-276-6046 - or e-mail us
and
we will work with you to include your story in the anthology.
USE
A PSEUDONYM IF THAT MAKES YOU FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE SHARING YOUR
STORY. We encourage the use of pseudonyms if that makes you
feel more secure because we want you to feel comfortable sharing your
story.
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
Deadline: January 15, 2011 We make final editorial
submissions on all submitted manuscripts only after the submission
deadline.
Electronic
submissions only. Word or RTF. Prose ≤5,000 words. Poetry ≤5 poems. Payment in copies
We consider
dual submissions and previously published work only if informed of this
at time of submission. We do not
pay reprint fees and it is author's responsibility to get needed
permissions.
