Submitting a Letter to Your Father
Here's how you do it....
A Letters to Our Fathers letter is about ordinary people expressing their sincere feelings to their fathers about their fathers. It is a letter that opens the heart of a son or daughter and reaches out to the spirit of a father. If you are a father, you may also encourage your children to submit letters about you!
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Guidelines for a Letters to Our Fathers Submission
1. Write a letter to your father, expressing how you feel about him, what he means (or meant) to you, what you remember that's remarkable about him, or whatever else you think you need to say to him.
2. It can take the form of a letter, a poem, a journal entry -- whatever you think will express it best.
3. Use your head, of course, but let the letter flow from your heart! Your father and your feelings about him are important!
4. It is preferred that all submissions are sent via our website at www.letterstoourfathers.20m.com.
5. If you don’t have access to the Internet, please submit your stories preferably typed on plain white 8 1/2” x 11” paper, in 12-point Times New Roman font.
6. Please be sure to type the author’s name and contact information on the first page of each and every story.
7. Stories should be non-fiction, ranging in length between 300-1200 words.
8. Mail your submissions in a flat, 9x12 envelope if possible.
9. No anonymous or author unknown submissions please.
10. Send only one copy of each submission.
11. We do not return submissions, so please don’t send the original.
12. If your letter is published, you will be paid upon publication. Payment amount will be determined at that time.
13. We cannot acknowledge receiving your letter if it arrives via postal mail or fax. The only way to receive an acknowledgment is by submitting through our website, http://www.letterstoourfathers.20.com.
14. Submitting letters online the fastest and easiest way -- for you and for us. If you do not have Internet access at home, you can probably get online at your local public library.
15. We don't know how long it will take for this project to produce a book, so please be patient. If your letter is chosen for a this project, you will be notified by mail and your permission to print it will be requested. If your letter is not chosen, you will not receive anything from us.
16. Feel free to submit more than one letter if you’d like.
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