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HIPPIE KIDS
True Stories from the Children of the Counterculture
Contact Information: Sarah Spivack & Jade Raybin
www.hippiekids.net
hippiekids@gmail.com
Jade: (323) 535-3794
Sarah: (310) 804-8352
If you could do it all over again, would you choose to be raised by hippies? We are seeking personal essays, social commentary, anecdotes, poetry, and photo essays about being brought up by hippies. This anthology documents a piece of cultural history, a view of a movement as told by the children of revolutionaries, seekers, stoners, and starry-eyed flower children.
The deadline for the first round of submissions is Friday, July 17. Material submitted now will be considered for inclusion in pilot publications.
Who We Are
Jade Raybin, Co-Editor
As a 5-month old, Jade Raybin adorned the sidewalk along Telegraph Avenue in a tie-dyed onesie, flower behind her ear. Her vagabond parents distributed peace, love, and hashish on the streets of Hawaii, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Since a quick-start childhood, she embraced the altruistic values of the 60’s through a career as an artist, activist, and writer. Whether teaching dance and theater to teens, running a holistic health practice, or working as a grant writer for non-profits, Jade is unwittingly branded a hippie. She holds such granola degrees as an MA in Women’s Spirituality and an MFA in Performance Activism; her writing has been featured on stages across the continental US, as well as in magazines, anthologies, and the occasional short film.
Sarah Spivack, Co-Editor
Sarah Spivack was 10 years old when her father quit growing marijuana and chucked his plants in the compost heap, where they took root the following spring and flourished, causing a family rush to the backyard to chop them up. Young Sarah witnessed the incident as a minor gardening snafu and grew up to date a series of stoners with questionable hygiene. Along the way, she managed to get a job as a producer at National Public Radio, where OF COURSE no one smokes pot or is a former hippie. She spent five years there shaping stories, directing programs, and chugging caffeinated beverages with fellow adrenaline-crazed news junkies. Sarah left the network to pursue a career as an independent multi-media producer, and can often be found wandering the streets near her office in Venice, California, looking vaguely homeless. She blames her lack of formal-wear on her mother -- bless her and her penchant for embroidered blouses and 30-year old Indian-style skirts.
The Details
Submissions can be sent via email to hippiekids@gmail.com. Submissions may be 1-20 pages in length. Very short pieces (50-500 words) are encouraged, as we will be including juicy anecdotes in the collection.
Please include the following pieces of information with your submission:
• Full name
• Email address
• Snail mail address
• Phone number
• List of previously published works (if any)
• Resume or CV (optional)
What We are Seeking
We encourage writers to follow their own narrative direction. We’ve come up with three categories that may guide you. We are interested in stories/reflections from any age about being raised by people that you define as "hippies."
1) What was the moment or series of moments that led you to the recognition that your family was not mainstream, or WEIRD?
2) How have your parents’ values influenced the choices you’ve made in your adult life – your politics, career, and how you rear your own children? How do your values differ from and match those of your parents?
3) How did your parents’ "hippie activities" interface with your childhood?
Additional Writing Prompts
• In my house, hippie was a verb…
• Who would you be if you’d had “normal” parents?
• How did you rebel against your parents?
• Did your family bond as outsiders?
• Pick one Pillar of Hippiedom (see below) and tell how your parents’ participation in that thing influenced you.
Pillars of Hippiedom
The nebulous and subterranean subculture of the 1960s embodied a variety of themes. We’ve listed several here, and we encourage you to write about how these pillars influenced your childhood and adolescence.
• Clothes, Fashion, and Body Hair
• Money & Free Stuff
• Food and Eating Habits
• Gender, or Men with Long Hair
• The Collective or Commune
• Child Consciousness, or Being Here Now
• Drugs
• Sex & Free Love
• Creativity & Self-Expression
• Spirituality – or God Without Borders
• Equality & Justice
• Back to the Land: Being the Fam
True Stories from the Children of the Counterculture
Contact Information: Sarah Spivack & Jade Raybin
www.hippiekids.net
hippiekids@gmail.com
Jade: (323) 535-3794
Sarah: (310) 804-8352
If you could do it all over again, would you choose to be raised by hippies? We are seeking personal essays, social commentary, anecdotes, poetry, and photo essays about being brought up by hippies. This anthology documents a piece of cultural history, a view of a movement as told by the children of revolutionaries, seekers, stoners, and starry-eyed flower children.
The deadline for the first round of submissions is Friday, July 17. Material submitted now will be considered for inclusion in pilot publications.
Who We Are
Jade Raybin, Co-Editor
As a 5-month old, Jade Raybin adorned the sidewalk along Telegraph Avenue in a tie-dyed onesie, flower behind her ear. Her vagabond parents distributed peace, love, and hashish on the streets of Hawaii, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Since a quick-start childhood, she embraced the altruistic values of the 60’s through a career as an artist, activist, and writer. Whether teaching dance and theater to teens, running a holistic health practice, or working as a grant writer for non-profits, Jade is unwittingly branded a hippie. She holds such granola degrees as an MA in Women’s Spirituality and an MFA in Performance Activism; her writing has been featured on stages across the continental US, as well as in magazines, anthologies, and the occasional short film.
Sarah Spivack, Co-Editor
Sarah Spivack was 10 years old when her father quit growing marijuana and chucked his plants in the compost heap, where they took root the following spring and flourished, causing a family rush to the backyard to chop them up. Young Sarah witnessed the incident as a minor gardening snafu and grew up to date a series of stoners with questionable hygiene. Along the way, she managed to get a job as a producer at National Public Radio, where OF COURSE no one smokes pot or is a former hippie. She spent five years there shaping stories, directing programs, and chugging caffeinated beverages with fellow adrenaline-crazed news junkies. Sarah left the network to pursue a career as an independent multi-media producer, and can often be found wandering the streets near her office in Venice, California, looking vaguely homeless. She blames her lack of formal-wear on her mother -- bless her and her penchant for embroidered blouses and 30-year old Indian-style skirts.
The Details
Submissions can be sent via email to hippiekids@gmail.com. Submissions may be 1-20 pages in length. Very short pieces (50-500 words) are encouraged, as we will be including juicy anecdotes in the collection.
Please include the following pieces of information with your submission:
• Full name
• Email address
• Snail mail address
• Phone number
• List of previously published works (if any)
• Resume or CV (optional)
What We are Seeking
We encourage writers to follow their own narrative direction. We’ve come up with three categories that may guide you. We are interested in stories/reflections from any age about being raised by people that you define as "hippies."
1) What was the moment or series of moments that led you to the recognition that your family was not mainstream, or WEIRD?
2) How have your parents’ values influenced the choices you’ve made in your adult life – your politics, career, and how you rear your own children? How do your values differ from and match those of your parents?
3) How did your parents’ "hippie activities" interface with your childhood?
Additional Writing Prompts
• In my house, hippie was a verb…
• Who would you be if you’d had “normal” parents?
• How did you rebel against your parents?
• Did your family bond as outsiders?
• Pick one Pillar of Hippiedom (see below) and tell how your parents’ participation in that thing influenced you.
Pillars of Hippiedom
The nebulous and subterranean subculture of the 1960s embodied a variety of themes. We’ve listed several here, and we encourage you to write about how these pillars influenced your childhood and adolescence.
• Clothes, Fashion, and Body Hair
• Money & Free Stuff
• Food and Eating Habits
• Gender, or Men with Long Hair
• The Collective or Commune
• Child Consciousness, or Being Here Now
• Drugs
• Sex & Free Love
• Creativity & Self-Expression
• Spirituality – or God Without Borders
• Equality & Justice
• Back to the Land: Being the Fam
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