Deadline: 7 October 2024
If you’re a young Indigenous person up to 35 years old, you’re invited to join the Terralingua Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC)!
The Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) is an ongoing Terralingua project that aims to amplify the voices of young Indigenous people from all over the world. Since 2019, it has been gathering and sharing stories by Indigenous youths about the ways in which they are (re)connecting with their ancestral languages, cultures, traditional knowledge, and lands.
Focus Areas
- re-affirming your cultural identity
- breathing new life into your ancestral language
- reconnecting with your people’s ways of life and traditional values, knowledge, and practices
- reclaiming your ancestral links with the land
Guidelines
- Proposed stories can be in written and/or visual media: essays, short fiction, poetry, photo essays, videos, postcard stories, podcast scripts, music, spoken word, artwork, or any other format or combination of formats.
- Before you submit your EOI, it is suggested that you read some of the Indigenous youth stories which have already been published.
- Then fill out the EOI form to the right. (If your proposed story will be created by several youths, choose just one of them to fill out the form.)
- Terralingua will review your EOI, and if it wish to invite you to submit your story, you will be given instructions about how to send your story, depending on its format.
- If accepted, your story will be published on IYSC page and will remain permanently available online along with other Indigenous youths’ stories.
- Your story can be submitted in English, French, or Spanish. If accepted, it will be published in English. It can also be translated from French or Spanish into English.
For more information, visit Terralingua.
