Submissions must include a paragraph of text describing ONE thing you love about Portland that makes it unique. Topics could range from the smallest details of a hidden neighborhood, the philosophy of the people, a microbrew, a single person, a restaurant, or a particular event. We are looking for a wide range of submissions that capture many different aspects of the city in this place in time – weird, wacky, smart, touching, trendy, etc. Your submission must also include an image – a photograph, art piece, or anything that illustrates your text submission. Be bold, be creative, after all you are a Portlander.
We request that you submit your story via email to melissa@ourportlandstory.com. Images must be high resolution (300 dpi) and under 10M. Text should be about a paragraph or so long, edited and spell-checked. You can submit your text in the context of an email, or as an attached text file. With your email submission, please also include your name (first & last), occupation, address, and phone number.
Each accepted submission will be granted a full page in the book where your image and text will be matched with other graphic elements to create a fully designed page.
The final book will be in full color. You will be notified if you are chosen and sent a copy of the finished product. Keep in mind your name will be used next to your submission.
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Use of Content
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Users retain their copyrights to all submitted works.
All user submissions to Our Portland Story are governed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. This means visitors are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the submitted work with attribution, for non-commercial purposes only, and cannot make derivative works from the submitted work.
In addition, users grant Our Portland Story a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license to use the submitted work for promotional, commercial and non-commercial purposes, such as advertisements, books, and other products.
Editing of Content
Our Portland Story reserves the right to edit content. When we do edit reader content, we do so with a light touch, mainly for purposes of copyediting and formatting, and very rarely for language.