AnthroStories

• Do not write more than 3000 words.
• Avoid references in the text in the form of parentheses. If you have drawn on or quoted other texts, mention this in an endnote.
• Keep endnotes to a minimum
• Avoid explanatory metatext; the text should be able to stand on its own – with the reader's help.
• Avoid sensitive personal data.
• Before submitting, consider the following: Does the story work within its framework and logic?
• Is the text engaging? (Does it use vivid, concrete details; make use of literary elements and techniques; demonstrate richness of expression/material?
• Is the focus clear? (Consistent and appropriate authorial voice for the material; accessible to readers without supplements).
• Is the work ethnographic/does it use an anthropological perspective? (interesting/important and engaging focus; based on ethnographic experience).
• Include a short metatext to accompany your story (see existing publications). The text should describe:
  • the ethnographic context
  • the genre(s) in which it is written
  • the author

Send your story to anthrostories@samf.ku.dk 

The editorial team will read your story and decide whether it can be forwarded to two of AntroStories' peer reviewers. If so, you will receive comprehensive feedback as a starting point/inspiration for your final editing.

You retain your rights to your text.

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Cheney, Theodore A. Rees. 2001. Writing Creative Nonfiction: Fiction Techniques for Crafting Great Nonfiction. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.

Elliott, Denielle. 2017. “Writing.” In A Different Kind of Ethnography. Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies. New York: University of Toronto Press.

Geertz, Clifford. Works and Lives. The Anthropologist as Author. Cambridge, UK, Malden, USA: Polity Press.

Ghodsee, Kristen. 2016. From Notes to Narrative. Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Lamott, Anne 1994. Bird by Bird. Some Instructions on Writing and Life. New York: Anchor Books.

Le Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft. A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. (2015). Boston: Mariner Books.

McGranahan, Carole. 2020. Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment. Durham: Duke University Press.

Narayan, Kirin. 2012. Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pandian, Anand, and Stuart McLean. 2017. Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing. North Carolina, US: Duke University Press.

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Wulff, Helena. 2016. The Anthropologist as writer. genres and Contexts in teh Twenty-first Century. New york, Oxford: Berghahn.

Zinsser, William. 2016. On Writing Well:  The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, New Delhi, Auckland: Harper Perennial.