If you fall into one of the categories below and would like to contribute a piece of writing or poetry to the anthology the editors would be very happy to hear from you:
- people who were adopted within their extended birth family (rather than by strangers)
- people who were adopted at an older age after being in residential or foster care
- people who were adopted as part of a sibling group from the care system
- transnationally adopted adults who were born in Vietnam
- transnationally adopted adults who were born in Korea
- transnationally adopted adults who were born in Romania
- adopted adults who are also a birth mother or father i.e. their child/ren has been adopted
- adopted people in their 70s and 80s
- people who have become a parent through adoption
- writing by gay men, bisexual and transgender adopted people
- disabled adopted people e.g. those who were considered disabled at the time of their adoption
- adopted people who have not searched for their birth family and do not wish to
Please contact Perlita Harris at Perlita.Harris2@btinternet.com by 7th July 2010 if you have any questions or would like to submit a contribution.