Submission Guidelines (Español abajo)

The Battle Creek Coalition for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation is calling our community to come together for our collective healing and liberation. For the fifth annual National Day of Racial Healing, TRHT is launching community-wide invitation to document true stories of racial healing, resilience, resistance, and joy.

TRHT welcomes authors of every nationality, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and age. TRHT seeks authors to tell their truth in their own words. TRHT is interested in love letters, personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, prose poems, formal poems, blank verse, free verse, and short stories.

Additionally, artistic submissions, stories in languages other than English (with translations), and multigenerational perspectives are all welcome and encouraged!

By sharing honest stories, we can reach the hearts and lives of others during a time when we most need to hear, read, and tell these stories. This final book will depict an incomparable snapshot in history.

The deadline to enter your submission is September 15, 2021.

All submissions will be reviewed by a small team of volunteers with TRHT. All responses will be maintained confidentially in a Private TRHT Google Drive Folder.

The book will be available for purchase by National Day of Racial Healing on January 18, 2022. TRHT will provide a free copy of the book to the first 35 authors whose pieces are selected for publishing.

There is no fee to enter a submission and contributors will not receive compensation for submitting original pieces.

If you have additional questions, please contact the organizers at BCTRHT@gmail.com.

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Para enviar una historia para su inclusión en este libro, complete este formulario o mande un mensaje a BCTRHT@gmail.com (se habla español). 

La fecha límite para ingresar su historia es el 15 de agosto del 2021.

TRHT busca escritores de cualquier edad e identidad que puedan decir su verdad, en sus propias palabras. TRHT está interesado en cartas de amor, ensayos personales, artículos de reflexión, vivencias, poemas en prosa, poemas formales, verso en blanco, verso libre y cuentos.

Además, las presentaciones artísticas, las historias en otros idiomas además del inglés (con sus traducciones), también son bienvenidas e incentivadas las perspectivas multigeneracionales.

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* 1. Please copy and paste your writing submission here. TRHT's preference is that you submit your writing here. There is a 1,000 word limit in this form.

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* 2. Do you need to mail your submission? Entering hard copy submissions by mail is reserved for artwork or writing submissions that did not meet the criteria for this submission form. Do not send us your only copy or original pieces; we cannot accept responsibility for anything damaged or lost in the mail.

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* 3. First and last name of author

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* 4. First and last name of author's legal guardian (if author is 17 or younger)

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* 5. Email address of author 

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* 6. Email address of author's legal guardian (if author is 17 or younger)

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* 7. Phone number of author 

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* 8. Phone number of author's legal guardian (if author is 17 or younger)

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* 9. What is the author's age? This demographic information is requested to print in the book alongside the author's name. This information will not in any way influence the decision to include, or not include, this submission in the final book. You may write "prefer not to respond" if this is true.

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* 10. How does the author identify in terms of race and ethnicity? This demographic information is requested to print in the book alongside the author's name and age. This information will not in any way influence the decision to include, or not include, this submission in the final book. You may write "prefer not to respond" if this is true.

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* 11. What is the author's connection to Battle Creek? Does the author live, work, or play in Battle Creek currently or is this person a former resident?

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* 12. I give permission for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation to publish this submission in any TRHT promotional materials.

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* 13. I hereby affirm that I have legal authorization to enter this submission on my own behalf, or on the behalf of a minor child who is 17 years or younger.

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* 14. I hereby affirm that the information contained in this application is accurate and complete to the best of my knowledge.

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* 15. Digital Signature. Type the full name of the author of this submission to indicate consent for submission (for all ages).

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* 16. Digital Signature for Legal Guardian's Consent. Type the full name of the author's legal guardian to indicate legal authorization of this submission for minors 17 or younger.

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* 17. Date of Submission

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* 18. How did you hear about this opportunity? Select all that apply.

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* 19. Do you have any comments or questions for the organizers?

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