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Nominate your story

Write in whichever language feels closest to you. This is a nomination: we read, we choose, then we invite you to record. The story goes online together with your video — the text alone is not published.

Before you write, here is what the association commits to

  • Sending a story does NOT mean it will appear. We select some stories, invite the storyteller to record, and only with a video does the story go online.
  • You choose the name shown on the site: your full name, one you pick yourself, or anonymous.
  • You can withdraw at any time — we take it down within 72 hours, including from social media.
  • Consent to publish on the website and consent to publish on social media are two separate choices.
  • We reply within seven days, even when we do not publish — and we say why.
  • We do not pay for stories.
What does a good story look like?

In year six I could not speak Czech. My teacher sat me next to Tereza, and every break she pointed at things and said their names. Desk. Window. Board. I copied them into a small notebook, read them to my parents in the evening, and they learned along with me… — One concrete episode, real people, a detail you remember. Do not write “integration is a long journey”: true, but nobody remembers it.

1 · The story

A question to start with

Roughly 600–6000 characters. One concrete episode reads far better than general reflections.

2 · About you

The association needs to know who you are. You choose the public name below.

The year is enough. We need it to know whether to ask your parents for consent.

Your city is enough. It is shown publicly only on anonymous stories, where it stands in for your name; otherwise we use it to invite you to events near you.

Choose anonymous and the page shows only “Anonymous reader”, with your age and city — for example “Anonymous reader · 17 · Prague”. The association still keeps your name and email so we can reply and so you can withdraw the story; we do not publish them.

Only needed if you chose “A name I choose”. A first name, a short form or a pen name — up to you.

Required if you are under 18. We will ask them to confirm before publishing.

3 · Photos (optional)

Up to three photos, each under 5 MB. Without a caption the reader does not know what they are looking at.

4 · Permissions and next step

Would you like to go further with us?

We keep your data for as long as the story is on the site. Withdraw it and we remove it at once, and delete the data entirely on request. Details in our privacy statement.