Being Abroad is a project aiming to publish a collection of personal stories about relocating to a foreign country. It aspires to sidestep the traditional styles of travel writing and instead focus on the emotional aspects and consequences of living abroad.
Lucy Reynell and I launched the original project website in the autumn of 2006 and the closing date for regular submissions was 31st of January 2007. After that we sent 10 sketchbooks around the world to 100 people to allow them more creative control over their entries. The books finally came home after almost a year of increasingly complicated logistics, and we then set about reading through everyone’s work in order to compile and release a limited set of handmade books.
Things have become somewhat delayed due to even more moving around, but when we finally settle down we will add our own thoughts to the project and publish the results.