Peace Corps Writers is seeking submissions for new book "Letters Home from the Peace Corps"
Your submissions are requested for the book Letters Home from the Peace Corps
Peace Corps Writers (www.PeaceCorpsWriters.org) has agreed to edit and publish a collection of correspondence of Peace Corps Volunteers as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Letters Home from the Peace Corps will be one way for Peace Corps Writers to preserve the history of the Peace Corps. Your letters and emails to family and friends are treasured documents that must be saved because they offer valuable insight into the experience we all shared. Your personal correspondence tells a story, and with this book, we hope to preserve your story — as expressed in your own words — for posterity, and we ask you to share them with us.
While we prefer to see previously unpublished material, letters and/or emails that have already appeared in local newspapers, self-published books, and/or family web sites are all acceptable.
Selecting your correspondence for submission
In selecting a letter or email to be considered for publication in the book, we ask that you choose it thus: Would a reader find the letter intriguing? . . . dramatic? . . . humorous? . . . historic? . . . insightful? If you can answer yes to one of these questions, please send it.
We will select the very best letters that tell the story — through the eyes of PCVs and Staff — of the Peace Corps since its beginnings in 1961.
Your letters can be about any aspect of the Peace Corps experience: Making the Decision to Join, Training, Peace Corps Service, Friends, HCNs, Family Visits, After the Peace Corps, Life as an RPCV, Returning to the Host Country.
Send us no more than three of your best letters or emails. Select the letter(s) that have the most meaning to you; that tell a story you want to tell.
Mail us your correspondence for the first round of selection by June 1, 2007. For letter(s):
• Send a legible photocopy or typed transcript. Do not send originals. We cannot return anything sent to us. (If we have trouble reading your handwriting, your letter will not be considered for publication.)
• Send to:
Marian Haley Beil
4 Lodge Pole Road
Pittsford, New York 14534
For email(s):Send to: [email protected] Put in the subject line: “Letters Home From the Peace Corps”
Please include for either letters or emails:
• Information about yourself or the PCV/RPCV or staff member who wrote the letter (e.g.,
where and when he or she served, and any other important personal and/or background
information).
• Your phone number.
• Your email address.
• Your mailing address.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Marian Haley Beil
John Coyne
Editors: Letters Home from the Peace Corps