Submission Guidelines

SEEKING Literary & Visual Memoir

For literary memoir submissions we are seeking various forms of literature employing different creative techniques (including stream of consciousness, poetry, open letters, lists, images, dialogues, etc.).

For visual memoir submissions, we are looking for all forms of visual storytelling that can be formatted for print publications. Your visual narratives can take the form of narrative photography and photo essays, portraits (of self and others), collage, graphic memoir, illustrations (sketches, cartoons, etc.), still images (from video), visual artwork (images of paintings, sculpture, etc.), and multimedia of varying forms.

SHOW & TELL

Submission Guidelines

TELLING

Your Literary Short Memoir should be 100 words and up to 7 pages

(Page count based on standard margins with 12 pt font, double spaced text; (poetry may be single spaced).

SHOWING

Submit your visual memoir in 1 - 5 images. Submit one, or a series of images that tell your story. Visual Memoir includes various forms of visual media including for example: All forms of photography ( including narrative photography, portraits (of self and others), photo-collage, screenshots, still images (from video); and graphic memoir, illustrations (sketches, cartoons, etc.), visual artwork (collage, images of paintings, sculpture, etc.), and multimedia of varying forms. Only a title is required for your visual memoir; however, captions are welcomed. If you would like to contextualize your visual entry with a caption, each of your images may be accompanied by text of up to 100 words. For clarity, please indicate the text associated with the accompanying image.

Showing & Telling

For our current memoir project, we are seeking submissions to either:

SHOW => Visual Memoir

TELL => Literary Memoir

SHOW&Tell=> Visual + Literary

Rolling Submissions (open deadline)

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THE COVID DIARIES

Submission Guidelines

We are currently seeking stories of the pandemic.

As we continue to experience the ways in which this pandemic has affected the globe, this project asks for the central question:

How has the Covid 19 changed your world?

Share your Coronavirus stories of heroism, community, challenge, triumph, love, loss, appreciation and change.

Please feel inspired to send us your prose, poetry, artwork, images and any combinations of literary and visual memoir submissions.

Literary Memoir Submissions:

Your Literary Short Memoir should be 100 words and up to 7 pages (Page count based on standard margins with 12 pt font, double spaced text; (poetry may be single spaced).

Visual Memoir Submissions:

Rolling Submissions (open deadline)

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NAM

Submission Guidelines

Telling Our Stories Press is currently seeking memoir for our memoir project on the American War in Vietnam.

Whether you served in Vietnam or loved someone who did and have a story about it, share it by submitting either short literary memoir, visual memoir, or any combinations to NAM.

Literary Memoir Submissions:

Your Literary Short Memoir should be 100 words and up to 7 pages (Page count based on standard margins with 12 pt font, double spaced text; (poetry may be single spaced).

Visual Memoir Submissions:Submit your visual memoir in 1 - 5 images. Submit one, or a series of images that tell your story. Visual Memoir includes various forms of visual media including for example: All forms of photography ( including narrative photography, portraits (of self and others), photo-collage, screenshots, still images (from video); and graphic memoir, illustrations (sketches, cartoons, etc.), visual artwork (collage, images of paintings, sculpture, etc.), and multimedia of varying forms. Only a title is required for your visual memoir; however, captions are welcomed. If you would like to contextualize your visual entry with a caption, each of your images may be accompanied by text of up to 100 words. For clarity, please indicate the text associated with the accompanying image.

Rolling Submissions (open deadline)

Memoir on the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War aka

the Second Indochina War aka

the Resistance War Against America aka

the American War

From Nov 1, 1955 - April 30, 1975

~Vietnam ~Laos ~Cambodia ~Saigon~

Rolling Submissions (open deadline)

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FINE PRINT

Publication Notification

If your submission is selected for publication, we will notify you for permission prior to publication.

ROLLING SUBMISSIONS

TOSP is currently accepting rolling submissions for our projects without deadlines.

Copyright

Authors retain all rights to their work, and provide Telling Our Stories Press publication rights.

COMPENSATION

Authors receive Telling Our Stories Press discounts and publication copies.

Submission Fees

We accept multiple submissions.

As a small press, we require submission fees to assist us with operational costs, and we greatly appreciate your payment.

However, if your financial circumstances prohibit such --causing you NOT to share your story--

please complete the Submission Fee Waiver when prompted for your payment.

At Telling Our Stories Press we value the art of the story and want to facilitate, rather than

hamper the process...

Submission Waiver Form