Submission Guidelines for High School Students
Writing Our Hope is an online project committed to publishing works of creative nonfiction written by young people on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality. The web project follows the August 2007 publication of Our Hope: Writings and Photographs on Tolerance and Equality by creative writing students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
Call for submissions
On September 1, 2007, Writing Our Hope began accepting creative nonfiction submissions on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality from any high school student, grades 9-12, in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
Submission Guidelines for High School Students
NO SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED DURING THE SUMMER. THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR FALL IS FROM SEPTEMBER 1 - NOVEMBER 15, 2008. THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR SPRING IS FROM JANUARY 1 - MARCH 15, 2009.
Creative nonfiction is a literary genre that presents factual material in a literary, rather than academic way. Personal essays and literary journalism are the two most common examples.
SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD.
Submitted works of creative nonfiction should be 500-1000 words in length, completely truthful, well-written, and free of grammatical and typographical errors. Personal essays, short memoirs, or works of literary journalism are acceptable.
Submitted works should have a theme surrounding hope, tolerance, and/or equality.
Works should be typed, pasted into the body of an e-mail and sent to ourhope@writingourhope.org. Please, no attachments.
All submissions should include the following information in the body of the e-mail, above the submitted work: author's name, author's current school and the city that school is in, your teacher's name at that school, and your teacher's e-mail address. (Teacher will be CC:ed (copied) on all e-mails to student writers.)
We do not guarantee that all works will be accepted. Reasons for not accepting work could include: 1. submitting a work that does not follow our project's themes, 2. submitting work whose writing is not clear and cannot be understood, or 3. expressing any desire to see harm done to another person or people.
Authors will receive a response within 30-60 days regarding a submission. That response will be sent to the e-mail used to submit your work. Accepted work will be published on the Writing Our Hope website.
Issue #1 was released on December 10, 2007
Issue #2 was released on April 25, 2008
Supplement #1 was released on May 25, 2008
Writing Our Hope is an online project committed to publishing works of creative nonfiction written by young people on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality. The web project follows the August 2007 publication of Our Hope: Writings and Photographs on Tolerance and Equality by creative writing students at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama.
Call for submissions
On September 1, 2007, Writing Our Hope began accepting creative nonfiction submissions on the themes of hope, tolerance, and equality from any high school student, grades 9-12, in the United States, Canada, or Mexico.
NO SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED DURING THE SUMMER. THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR FALL IS FROM SEPTEMBER 1 - NOVEMBER 15, 2008. THE SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR SPRING IS FROM JANUARY 1 - MARCH 15, 2009.
Creative nonfiction is a literary genre that presents factual material in a literary, rather than academic way. Personal essays and literary journalism are the two most common examples.
Issue #1 was released on December 10, 2007
Issue #2 was released on April 25, 2008
Supplement #1 was released on May 25, 2008