Call for Submissions: Celebrating Holidays Away from Home

Photo: D. Sharon Pruitt

Matador Abroad is looking for narrative pieces, print essays as well as single print submissions for a new series.

Theres something we enjoy about celebrating holidays abroad. Sure, we miss my moms perfectly roasted, wet turkey upon Thanksgiving as well as those delicately frosted, chewy sugar cookies she continues to bake for Santa even yet my younger brother is about to graduate from high school, though we enjoy a blank slate that celebrating a legal legal holiday outward my home country provides.

While vital abroad, a legal legal holiday youve grown up with can suddenly be anything youd like it to be. You can utterly omit it as well as conduct off a legal legal holiday stress, or we can attach new definition to it by creating your own traditions.

One year in Pakistan, my husband as well as we motionless to chuck a Yuletide celebration during a flat. We introduced a guest to spiced apple cider as well as gingerbread cookies, sang Yuletide carols, as well as review passages about a birth of Jesus from a Bible as well as a Quran. Afterward, we watched The Nativity Story. There was no Santa, no stockings, no tree as well as no enormous raise of presents, though it was fun as well as it gave us a meaningful way to applaud with a local friends.

Photo: Simon Kelp Keeping

We want to hear your stories about celebrating holidays outward of your home country. Dont simply tell us what happened show us. We want to see how we transformed a pot of bamboo into a Yuletide tree, how we taught your ESL students to color Easter eggs, or what we used in place of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Submissions have been not limited to American holidays; tell us what it was like first celebrating Ramadan away from home, or how Diwal! i is dif ferent in London than it is in Delhi.

Specifically were looking for 3 types of submissions:

Narrative

Articles should be driven by narrative as well as full of sensory details. 1000 1200 difference is ideal. Payment per letter is $25. If youre meddlesome in submitting, check out Matadors writer discipline as well as submit your letter via a online form.

Submissions have been upon a rolling basis, though wed like to publish articles about specific holidays a few weeks before a legal legal holiday occurs. For example, if we send an letter about Yuletide upon January 15th, we might ask we to resubmit next year.

Photo Essays

If we have a collection of 8 to twelve strong photographs of your legal legal holiday eventuality away from home, we can submit a collection for announcement as a print essay. Put a photos in an online manuscript (such as during Flickr or Picasa), write 1 to 2 line captions for any photo, as well as send a manuscript couple to heather@matadornetwork.com with Photo Essay Submission in a theme line. Include a reduced description of your print letter in a email. Payment per print letter is $25 as well as submissions have been upon a rolling basis.

Single Photo Submissions

Were also putting together a print letter of a own including photos from around a world. Send 1 or 2 photos, along with a reduced caption explaining where a print was taken as well as what is happening in a photo, to anne@matadornetwork.com. Single print submissions have been not authorised for payment, though any print chosen will embody announcement credit as well as a couple to your blog, website or Flickr page.


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