Letters To My Sisters

My name is Connie L. Jones. I am a writer based in Saskatchewan, Canada, currently compiling a book for publication in Spring '04 about how women share bonds between one another that are similar despite how different various cultures may look on the outside. 

As a Canadian woman with Mennonite roots, I very much want to include works from women of Molokan, Doukhobor, Hutterite, Mennonite and Amish culture, because there is so much diversity even in these that the world doesn't often have a chance to get a chance to glimpse. Therefore, I have passed my call for submissions to your office in order to pass along my invitation so that women from these cultures might have the opportunity to submit their writings for possible inclusion in my anthology. 

Depending upon the success of this book, I hope to begin work on a sequel, Letters from my Brothers, next year. 

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I thank you for your assistance, and wish you the best in the coming year. 

Regards, 
Connie L. Jones 
Saskatoon, SK CANADA 

To all Molokan,  Doukhobor, Amish, Hutterite, and Mennonite women: 
A Call for Submissions 

To some, sisters are born. For others, 'sisterhood' evolves through the sharing of life's tragedies and triumphs. No matter how it began, the bond between women is one not easily shaken, and despite what may befall a family or a nation, a common thread runs through: where one woman is in need, another will come to her aid. This is true sisterhood - a connecting point that can always be counted on. 

My name is Connie L. Jones. I am a Canadian writer, and mother of three young children, based in Saskatchewan, currently compiling an anthology of women's writing on how similar and unbreakable the bond of womanhood is in every culture of the world. Now more than ever, we need to hear about the many similarities we share despite sometimes vast differences in culture. My desire is to pay homage to the bond of 'sisterhood' that has surely sustained women during times of incredible hardships, and I would like to invite you, and other women with your background, heritage and history, to share with the world the importance of female relationships -- of true sisterhood -- for my anthology entitled Letters To My Sisters, published by Boheme Press, Toronto, Canada, in spring 2004. 

My collection will display the fact that the ties that bind women one to another are the same in every culture. Women of colony share special bonds, ones that others don't often have a chance to glimpse. I would be honored if you joined with the women from Afghanistan, India, China, Bangladesh, and North America, in providing a window for the world to glimpse the strength that you have derived from one another. Please join us in creating Letters to My Sisters. Whether humorous or heart wrenching, your personal essays, stories, poems, or anecdotes strung together from across the globe will illustrate how cultures may vastly differ, but 'sisterhood' in any language means love. 

Please send your submission of unpublished poetry (no length limit), personal essay or creative non-fiction (no longer than 3,000 words) in ENGLISH, with your name, cultural heritage and country of citizenship, contact address, and email address if you have. 

Send your submission either by email to: letters2mysisters@hotmail.com , or mail to: 

Letters To My Sisters 
P.O. Box 30028, 
1624 33rd Street West 
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, 
CANADA      S7L 7M6 

IF sending by mail, you must include a self-addressed, stamped envelop with adequate postage for response. Those outside of Canada must include an International Reply Coupon instead of an American stamp. Please do not send original material. 

I will require all submissions by March 31, 2003, and will contact all contributors by August 2003. I am also interested in your unpublished two-dimensional art or photos via e-mail if sent in .gif, .jpeg, or .tiff format. All contributors will receive payment in copies of Letters To My Sisters. This project is funded in part by the Canada Council for the Arts. 

About the editor: Connie L. Jones is a freelance writer from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Over the years, Jones has written for various health, biotech, disability and pet publications across North America, Australia and the UK, and has co-led a workshop on freelance success at the Surrey International Writer's Conference in British Columbia, Canada. Her monthly health articles are read in prairie dog and Planet S magazines in Saskatchewan, and her parenting articles are published across Canada at West Coast, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa Families magazines, as well as in Montreal Pour Enfants. Jones also writes the Saskatchewan Nutraceutical Network's quarterly newsletter, is completing her second novel, and is the mother of three young children.

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