Dear
Wonderful You,
Letters to Adopted and Fostered Youth Around the
World
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Call for Submissions
Project: Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted and Fostered Youth Around the
World is a collective writing project sponsored by The AN-YA Project. The purpose of this writing project is to
produce a series of books that share personal experiences, offer support,
understanding, and encouragement. The
pieces presented in each book will be written in the form of letters aimed to
reach a global generation of present and upcoming adopted and fostered youth.
This
call for submission seeks authors for the Dear
Wonderful You Project’s first book.
Requirements: Writers must be adult adoptees
or adults who experienced foster care as children. Writers shall submit essays
written as though they are letters to today’s adopted and fostered youth. The
target age of readers is tweens to teens. We ask that writers be mindful of their young
readers’ ages. Writers must be willing to receive reader responses via email as
this project also intends for readers to be able to respond to our writers with
letters of their own.
Submission
Process: Please
submit your letters in a Word document via email to:
DianeChristian[at]live[dot]com
Note: Writers may
continue to submit after the First Round Deadline to be considered for
potential future books in the Dear
Wonderful You Project.
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More
About This Project
Need: Young adoptees deserve access to adult adoptee role models.
Goal: Young adoptees will gain access to adult adoptee role
models.
Multitudes
of adult adoptees, located around the world, are poised and ready to provide
the truest compassion, understanding, support and guidance to the younger and
upcoming generation of adoptees.
Unfortunately, not all adopted youth have access to adult adoptee
mentors. Some may not have the means to attend an adoptee led cultural camp, or
be geographically close enough to participate in an adoptee mentoring program.
Adoptive parents may not know where to begin to search for an adoptee role
model for their child. For some adopted
youth, an adult adoptee role model is a concept that has never occurred to
them. As being adopted is a lifelong
journey of processing of the unique joys and
challenges adoption may bring, our desire is for
young adoptees to know they are not alone.
We want
all adopted or fostered youth to feel embraced, inspired and guided by
incredible and accomplished adult adoptees. We want all young readers to know that there
is a global community of adult adoptees who “get
it,” “get them,” and who have been in their shoes. Our aim for this writing project is for the
global adult adoptee community to write collectively to every single adopted or
fostered child and via Dear Wonderful You…
to assure them that they are not alone.
Publisher: The AN-YA Project strives to uplift and bring to the forefront
empowering adult adoptee voices through their cutting-edge and informative
literary publications. The AN-YA Project
has worked with and published the voices of many esteemed adult adoptee
writers. The mission of The AN-YA Project is “To provide a Literary Lifting
of Adoptee Voices.”
The AN-YA Project is co-founded by Diane René
Christian and Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman.
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