Songs of Ourselves

We are getting some splendid submissions for the anthology "Songs of Ourselves".  If you keep a journal, write letters or blog, check out the submission quidelines below.  July 15 is the deadline.

Blue Heron Book Works loves stories and we are dedicated to the idea that everyone’s individual story—not just those who live in the glare of the celebrity spotlight—is essential to the bigger story of who are.  

It’s not politically correct to assign characteristics to nationalities, and in fact most Americans wouldn’t consider being American a nationality, claiming that we all come from somewhere else.  And yet, after even one generation here—often sooner—the thing that we all have in common, the thing that makes us American, asserts itself and that is this:  we look at everything with a child-like sense of the new.  Nothing has associations that can’t be reworked or reimagined.  That’s what Americans do:  we reinvent ourselves constantly, create ourselves from scratch because all of us are starting over in some way.  It’s this looking at a situation for what it is without the judgement of generations that make us the most creative people on the planet. 

This quintessential American point of view is captured beautifully in journals and blogs, letters, in unedited and unreflective short bursts of observation and it is what we are celebrating in Songs of Ourselves.

If you have between 10-20 journal entries, blogs, or letters each shorter than 300 words, we would love to hear from you for possible inclusion in this anthology.  If your submission is chosen, we will need non-exclusive rights to what you submit and we will pay you a share of the 50% profits earned from on-line and bookstore sales which will be split among the contributors. We will also send you a print version of the book when it is published. 

The deadline for submissions is July 15.

Please send us your submission via email to editor@blueheronbookworks.com  There is no need to send anything else at this time.