Citizens of the World! Your mission awaits!
At Ptara, we are looking for 1,812 stories connected with people, places, things and events from the year 1812.
We have found new voices to help us tell these stories, and we are looking for more. Writers, artists, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, book reviewers, poets or anyone else with a love of history is welcome.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tell the world a story that happened in the year 1812.
Tell your story in your own way, through your own medium. (It can be anything from a street performance to an interactive digital display.)
Tell us about what happened where you live, or in your field, or any story from the year 1812 that grabs your fancy.
(Stories may be about events anywhere in the world connected with the year 1812. They will be added to Ptara’s 1812 timeline.)
Please send all stories in text format to james.grey.jackson@ptara.com or contact Vasco Phillip de Sousa through LinkedIn or Facebook. If you wish to become a regular contributor to ptara, please say so.
Ideal word length for a written story is from 200 to 1812 words.
Deadline for stories is 10 days before the anniversay of the event. (For example, for stories related to the Spanish Constitution of 1812, which was proclaimed at Cadiz on the 19th March, the deadline is 9th of March 2012.)
As the search for stories was not announced until January 2012, all January and February stories will be considered until the end of the month.
We look forward to seeing your stories!
Terms: If you wish us to link to your story on another website, please provide a url to the story you wish us to link to.
If you would like us to host your story at Ptara.com, please include a note saying that you are granting ptara.com the “First Worldwide Electronic Rights” or “First Worldwide Internet Rights” to your story.
You should have copyright to the story and the legal rights to have it published. You still keep the print rights to your story, along with the right to be known as the author of the story.
The editors of Ptara.com reserve the right to correct any spelling, grammatical and factual errors and to make other minor corrections to make stories conform to ptara’s standards.
If there are intentional “mistakes” in the story (such as puns, archaic quotes, jokes or poetry), please indicate this.
Thank you.
