From Nina:
We are still accepting abstracts for a new book on issues of concern to Global Nomads -- please see Call for Submissions below:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
We have been approached by a publisher to put together a book on Third Culture Kid/Global Nomad issues that will combine research and academic studies with memoirs and personal essays. We are seeking vivid, compelling narratives of the TCK/GN experience, as well as summaries of your research -- or even a combination, with your personal history interwoven with the subject you are researching. Though we are working with an academic press, the book will be targeted to a general audience as well as experts in the field, and the academic essays and research findings, rather than being too technical, should be presented in a readable manner for people interested in topics related to TCK/GNs.
Essays should be 10-20 pages in length. Any decisions about who or what to include will be made by the editors of this book: Gene Bell-Villada (author of Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics), Elaine Neil Orr (author of Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life), and Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel (co-editors of Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global).
At this point, if you would like to be part of the project, I only ask that you send a working title and short summary of the essay you'd like to contribute for me to share with the other editors.
I'm looking forward to receiving your material. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Nina Sichel
nsichel@verizon.net
nsichel@yahoo.com
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Hi,
My name is Kari. I'm an AMK and am working with another AMK and a retired missionary to put together an MK networking weekend for this coming August 1-2, to be set Three Hills, Alberta. It's targeting MKs between the ages of 16 and 24 who are, or have in the last 8 years transitioned to life in Canada, and who live in western Canada.
While compiling a list of online resources to include in our info packet at the seminar, I came across your amazing blog roll and TCK/GN-related links. I was hoping I would be able to use this list in our resource inventory for the seminar (I would, of course, cite your blog as the provider of the information).
I have a new book out, At Home Abroad: An American Girl in Africa, published by Plain View Press. It is a memoir of growing up in Angola and Southern Rhodesia from 1947 to 1961. My website is nancyhendersonjames.com. Visit the site and leave me a message!
Is there a deadline for submission?
GenXess - you would have to contact Nina Sichel at the email address posted in the notice (see bottom of 'blogged' notice).
AW-MU
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