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Everyone has a story to tell. We want to post your story about the Monadnock Region and create a lively forum for collecting and sharing anecdotes about towns, people, and special local places.

By telling your story here you will help to deepen the roots of this place we call the Monadnock Region. By retelling your experiences, you are helping others find points of connection and community.

Monadnock Stories Project Online Anthology
Original Submission Guidelines

WE ARE SEEKING original stories about the Monadnock region that serve to explore place through narrative, as Scott Russell Sanders explains: "the more fully we belong to our place, the more likely that our place will survive without damage. We cannot create myths from scratch, but we can recover or fashion stories that will help us to see where we are, how others have lived here, how we ourselves should live."

The on-line anthology will eventually be collected as one (or more) published volume, organized into three sections: arriving, staying, leaving. We are especially interested in stories (nonfiction or fiction) which emphasize the connections between people and local features of the landscape or local historical events (Mt. Monadnock, settlement, agriculture, streams and parks, manufacturing, railroad, special places, development). Each essay or story should address one of these themes.

  • Submit only unpublished material.
  • Submissions must be typed, double-spaced, in a plain font. Attach as a document and e-mail to harrisjr@fpc.edu or save to a disk and mail to John Harris at the address below. Please include an SASE. Manuscripts will not be returned otherwise.
  • Length: 500 to 4,000 words.
  • Please include a short list of suggested supporting primary material that can be reproduced for presentation on-line, such as letters, photographs, diaries, maps, etc. and their locations. Also include URLs for relevant web sites.
  • We will pay an honorarium for submissions selected for on-line or print publication.

The editorial advisory committee for this project includes Jane Brox, Howard Mansfield, John Hanson Mitchell, Peter Sauer, Christine Salem, and John Harris.

If you have further questions concerning these guidelines, call John Harris at (603) 899-4010.

The Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture
Franklin Pierce College
College Road, P.O. Box 60, Rindge, NH 03461

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