Links to:
The Writing Process with ACA
Manuscript Presentation.
email: bookproject@bluemail.ch
 
 

American Citizens Abroad is undertaking a project to publish a collection of diverse, non-fiction stories by Americans living overseas or who have lived overseas. We are soliciting contributions from Americans living around the world. All contributions are welcome. If you think you have a story to tell this is your opportunity. Send us a story about your experience living in a foreign country or working on foreign assignment. Tell us about the joys and frustrations, what viewing your country from the outside in is like, how you relate to the United States you left behind.
 

The purpose of this book is to tell Americans, in particular those back home, about what life is really like as an American living and working in a foreign country. The book will be primarily aimed at the general American public both outside the United States and back home. We aim to dispel the myths about the experience of living outside one's country of origin and hopefully, educate Americans back home, and our government, about the difficulties, frustrations and inequalities that Americans face when living and working overseas. To that end, a copy of the book will be sent to all Members of the US House of Representatives and the US Congress as well as, to the President and senior White House staff.
 

Stories submitted should be 2,000 to 3,000 words in length. This will allow for a paperback book of approximately 20 to 23 stories. If we receive more stories than are required for the book, a decision will be made by ACA as to which are included. All stories that are not included in the book will be published on the ACA website or included in a second volume. Authors will be informed as to whether their story is going to be included in the book or published on the website.
 

The deadline for story submission is 30 November 2004. ACA requests that all stories be submitted electronically via e-mail at, bookproject@bluemail.ch. Please remember to keep a complete back-up copy of your work. Do not send us the only copy you have.
 

For additional information and help on the writing process and more details on the project, please click on The Writing Process with ACA and Manuscript Presentation.
 

For their help with this project and the use of their guidelines, ACA wishes to thank Anne MacGregor of the Australian expatriate organization The Southern Cross Group and Bryan Havenhand of Global Exchange, being the co-editors of the Australian expatriate book, Australian Expats: Stories From Abroad. This compilation of Australian expatriate stories has recently been shortlisted in a major Australian national competition. Should ACA members wish to read some excellent expatraite writing, the book can be purchased online via the Southern Cross Group website. Go to: www.southern-cross-group.org and click on the the appropriate Expat Book link. Purchase can be made directly online utilizing PayPal®.