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The Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) is an ongoing Terralingua project that aims to amplify the voices of young Indigenous people from all over the world. Since 2019, we have been gathering and sharing stories by Indigenous youths about the ways in which they are (re)connecting with their ancestral languages, cultures, traditional knowledge, and lands.

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If you’re a young Indigenous person, we invite you to join the Circle!

Your story can be about any of the following four areas, or any combination of them. We are interested in hearing how you are:

re-affirming your cultural identity

breathing new life into your ancestral language

reconnecting with your people’s ways of life and traditional values, knowledge, and practices

reclaiming your ancestral links with the land

Submission Guidelines

The main author should be a young Indigenous person up to 35 years of age.

Before submitting your Expression of Interest (EOI) on this page, we suggest that you look at some of the Indigenous youth stories we’ve already published.

Proposed stories can be in written and/or visual media: essays, short fiction, poetry, photo essays, videos, postcard stories, podcast scripts, music, spoken word, artwork, or any other format or combination of formats.

After reviewing your EOI, we may invite you to submit your story for publication. Instructions about how to send us your story will be provided.

If accepted, your story will be published on our IYSC page and will remain permanently available online.

Your story can be submitted in English, French, or Spanish. If accepted, French and Spanish stories will be translated and published in English.

NOTE: You can also propose a story on the specific theme of the next issue of Terralingua’s Langscape Magazine.

Whether it is published in the IYSC or in Langscape, your story will reach a wide international audience!

Expression of Interest (EOI) Form:

We are grateful to the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the Swift Foundation, Lush Charity Pot, the MakeWay Foundation, the New England Biolabs Foundation, and a major anonymous donor for their generous support.

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