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Call for Submissions - CaribbeanTales: A People's History of the Caribbean

CaribbeanTales.org is a new, interactive, audio-visual meeting and recording place, a space to gather Caribbean stories on the Internet as a living popular history. We are looking for submissions to our bi monthly newsletter, which reports on exciting news and stories from the Caribbean Community.

Do you have a story to tell? About your family or yourself? Is there something happening in your Caribbean community that needs a space to be discussed?" Have you met or been inspired by an amazing Caribbean artist, poet, writer, athlete and want to write something about it? Do you have a new twist on a Caribbean folk tale that speaks to the current generation? We are looking for your story ideas that reflect the diverse, dynamic and innovative community that is the Caribbean, using storytelling as a main vehicle.

We are looking for story ideas on the following subjects:
a Caribbean storyteller
stories of liberation
significant personal history

Please send story ideas to::

Editor
CaribbeanTales.org
info@caribbeantales.org
(Please put CT Story Submission in the subject line)

or you can mail your submissions to:

CaribbeanTales
Attn: CT Story Submission
99 Gore Vale Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M6J 2R5
Canada

Stories are to be 500-1000 words, and provide digital images as well as audio visual content (such as a video clip, or sound clip). Not sure what content you need or can get? Contact us and we can figure out some ideas together.

We will pay a small honorarium for stories used.

Deadline for submissions is October 31st, 2004.