IN THE SPIRIT OF BOUDICA
PRINT, ELECTRONIC, and AUDIO GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
In the Spirit of Boudica is a collection of true stories by survivors of abuse seeking safety, justice, understanding, and peace. Sharing your story can raise awareness needed to create larger change, while providing validation, hope, inspiration, healing, and empowerment for you and other victims and survivors.
Your stories can also convey the power of love, courage, resilience, empathy, compassion, resourcefulness, persistence, tenacity, and community as we endeavor to end this epidemic.
THE PROCESS:
An opportunity to share your story with others, can be an important part of your healing journey, and contribute to positive change.
Your story is genuine, personal, and conveys difficult circumstances and injustice, so writing this might be a triggering process. Healthy, restorative breaks can help as you organize and share your thoughts. It’s also permissible to enlist someone you trust to help you including a professional that specializes in narrative therapy.
1. Keep the following in mind
as you share your story in your own words:
a. Please
be 18 or older.
b. Length
for print publication is 5,000 words or less.
c. Length
for web contributions is 3,000 words or less.
d. Try
to share in a clear, compelling way that encourages reader empathy and a better
understanding of the emotions and complexity of the situation.
e. Share
how you’ve grown or changed from your experience.
f. Speak
your truth in your own words while avoiding profanity.
2. Please be mindful of
everyone’s privacy and safety. DO NOT include identifiable information
about yourself, children, abuser, officials, etc. Suggestions: “Mr. X” or
“Judge S.”
3. Although some parts of your
story may involve public policy concerns, please do not promote a
policy, agenda, slander, or libel.
WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER SUBMISSION
We will do our best to notify you if your story is chosen for print publication within 90 days. We do not send rejection letters and cannot guarantee your story will be published.
In the Spirit of Boudica has been created to raise awareness about abuse with the intention of ending it. Submission of your story is a donation. There are no royalties or other payment implied or guaranteed. However, a portion of sales go to nonprofits which services victims of domestic violence and/or human trafficking.
If your story is selected for publication you will be asked to sign a Standard Permission Release Agreement.
RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONTENT AND YOUR SAFETY
A. FOR ALL MATERIAL SUBMITTED BY YOU: You are responsible for your submission content in regards too safety, privacy, and legal concerns, and by submitting you accept full responsibility for your content.
B. Once a story is published it CAN NOT be unpublished.
To submit a story please email it to
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