Call for Submissions: Celebrating Holidays Away from Home

Photo: D. Sharon Pruitt

Matador Abroad is seeking for account pieces, print essays as well as single print submissions for the new series.

Theres something we suffer about celebrating holidays abroad. Sure, we skip my moms perfectly roasted, wet turkey upon Thanksgiving as well as those delicately frosted, chewy sugarine cookies she continues to bake for Santa even yet my younger hermit is about to graduate from high school, though we suffer the blank line-up which celebrating the legal legal legal holiday outward my home country provides.

While vital abroad, the legal legal legal holiday youve grown up with can suddenly be anything youd similar to it to be. You can utterly omit it as well as head off the legal legal legal holiday stress, or we can insert new meaning to it by creating your own traditions.

One year in Pakistan, my husband as well as we decided to chuck the Yuletide celebration at the flat. We introduced the guests to spiced apple cider as well as gingerbread cookies, sang Yuletide carols, as well as read passages about the bieing born of Jesus from the Bible as well as the 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 the suggestive way to applaud with the local friends.

Photo: Simon Kelp Keeping

We wish to hear your stories about celebrating holidays outward of your home country. Dont simply discuss it us what happened uncover us. We wish to see how we transformed the pot of bamboo in to the Yuletide tree, how we taught your ESL students to tone Easter eggs, or what we used in place of turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. Submissions have been not singular to American holidays; discuss it us what! it was similar to initial celebrating Ramadan away from home, or how Diwali is different in London than it is in Delhi.

Specifically were seeking for 3 sorts of submissions:

Narrative

Articles should be driven by account as well as full of feeling details. 1000 1200 words is ideal. Payment per letter is $25. If youre meddlesome in submitting, check out Matadors contributor discipline as well as contention your letter around the online form.

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

Photo Essays

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

Single Photo Submissions

Were also putting together the print letter of the own together with photos from around the world. Send 1 or 2 photos, along with the reduced heading explaining where the print was taken as well as what is function in the photo, to anne@matadornetwork.com. Single print submissions have been not eligible for payment, though any print selected will include announcement credit as well as the link to your blog, website or Flickr page.