[Nick's Writing Blog] Stories Wanted for New Aid Anthology for Pakistan

[Nick]

Greg McQueen, the author and publisher behind the 100 Stories for Haiti fundraising anthology published earlier this year, has a new project. He is organizing a new anthology to aid victims of the recent floods in Pakistan.

Stories for Pakistan will be a book of 50 stories, each no more than 500 words in length, and contributions are invited now. Any subject or genre is acceptable, but (for obvious reasons) no stories with any violence, death, or mass destruction.

Contributors will not - of course - receive any payment, but they will get a full author's credit in the book, which is likely to be widely distributed and publicized (the previous Haiti anthology raised over 4000 UK pounds). And they will, of course, have the satisfaction of knowing that their work is helping a very good cause.

If you wish to submit a story for consideration for the anthology, cut and paste it into the body of an email, including your name, postal address, email address, and (if you have one) website URL. Include a short (one or two paragraph) bio as well. Send your stories to storiesfo...@gmail.com by the deadline of Sunday September 19th.

Stories for Pakistan will go out as an ebook and paperback, published by Greg's company, Big Bad Media. They are also hoping to produce an audiobook version, as well as a version packaged as an iPhone app. All profits will go to the Red Cross Pakistan Floods Appeal.

For more information on this project, please visit this page of Greg's Big Bad Media website.

As a matter of interest, I'm serving as a volunteer editor for this project (as I did with 100 Stories for Haiti) - so I really am looking forward to reading your work!

Photo credit: Pakistan Floods 2010 by Oxfam International.

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Posted By Nick to Nick's Writing Blog at 9/10/2010 11:04:00 AM