Call for Submissions: Anthology about Writers with Unsupportive Families
You see it all the time in the dedications and acknowledgements of
books: Words like: “To my dear husband,
who has supported my writing all throughout the years in spite of the odds,” or
“To my wife, who never stopped believing in me.”
But what happens when your ‘significant other’ doesn't support your
writing, either because he thinks you’ll never make it or because she thinks
you’re wasting your time and efforts for nothing?
Writers often talk about their supportive spouses/partners, but seldom
do we hear about the unsupportive
ones—mainly because it is a cause of great sadness and shame to the writer.
I’ve heard of cases where a husband told her writer wife flat out,
“You’ll never make it.” I even once heard a story about a husband who was so
jealous of his wife’s ‘writing world,’ that he burned her manuscript.
Though I don’t have a working title yet, I’m looking for
2,500-3,000-word (or longer) honest, poignant first-person accounts in the
style of Chicken Soup for the Soul
series. That is, true stories that are ultimately inspirational and show a
great deal of perseverance and determination from the part of the writer in
spite of the odds—in short, essays that will offer hope and moral support to writers
who are experiencing a similar situation. The essays will be compiled into an
anthology.
- Does your significant other totally ignore your ‘writing world’ or view it with contempt either because you’re not making enough money or because they feel jealous?
- Does he/she refuse to consider your writing as anything other than a ‘mere hobby?’
- Does he/she belittle or demean your ‘writer dreams?’
- Does he/she believe you’re wasting your time and should be spending that time in something more ‘valuable?’
- Does he/she make you feel guilty for those hours you spend writing?
- Does he/she say they understand, but then they put demands on your writing time and don’t respect it?
- Is he/she jealous of the time you spend writing at the computer?
- How does their behavior make you feel as a person and as a writer?
- To what extend do their criticism contribute to your insecurity, anxiety, and maybe even depression?
- How do you cope with their behavior?
- What keeps you writing and persevering in spite of all the odds?
- What would you like he/she to understand about you as a writer?
Submissions will be treated in confidentiality and
real names of people and places can be replaced with fictional ones.
Deadline: March 1st
2013
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