Submit a Story About Your Peace Corps Experience

Contribute a Story About Your Peace Corps Service
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INSTRUCTIONS - As you write your story, consider how something that occurred during your service -- perhaps an event, a host-country national, a transformative event in the community, or a change in your own views -- impacted your life. How did service shape your own career, your commitment to your local community, or to your activism on crucial global issues.
PHOTOGRAPHS - Please submit THREE to SEVEN photographs of your experience while a PCV, or other aspects of your story. Also, include a recent headshot. Choose images that help to tell your story.

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RESOURCES - Please add URLs, citations or links to research or other websites relevant to your story. If you have separate audio or music (.mp3), video (.mp4) or photographs (.jpeg, .png) please upload these files here also.

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STORY DRAFT - Please submit your Story Draft. Upload it here, using .doc or .docx (Word) or .txt (Rich Text) formats. THANK YOU FOR SUBMITTING YOUR STORY! *
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ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT STORIES

You do not need to be a seasoned writer. Every PCV has stories to tell. Try to collect your ideas on one or two pages. Our curators (editors) will help you edit a final draft after you submit this form.

Please consider these factors when you submit this form:
- Stories should be short. The maximum length is 700 words; "micro" narratives of less than 300 words are also accepted.
- If you are uncertain about your story's structure, please use THIS FORM to gather ideas.
- If you have an OBJECT you wish to donate with a story to the Museum, please go to the Museum's Collections page, and submit a request.
- Before writing your story. you may wish to read these articles about Peace Corps Themes. GO TO the Museum's STORIES PAGE to gather more ideas from previousLy-published stories.
AGREEMENT: You agree to accept editing suggestions and final approval from curators at the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience. You may submit a duplicate of your article to any other publication, with attribution to the Museum.

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Thank you for submitting a Draft Story to the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience. One of our editors will contact you with more details about how and when your story will be published on the Museum's website.
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Contribute a Story About Your Peace Corps Service