Have you walked the Camino de Santiago in your teens or early twenties?

The editors – Lynn Talbot and Andrew Squires – are seeking essays on your experiences as a pilgrim for a book that describes the Camino from a young person’s point of view.  Most published books on the Camino have been written by pilgrims who do not offer a young person’s perspective.  Yet such a perspective is one way to reinvent the Camino for the next generation. 

You might write about

•why you walked the Camino

•a specific experience that was meaningful to you

•memorable interactions with other pilgrims

•a spiritual awakening that you discovered on the Camino

•your reaction/response to a specific site along the Camino

•how the Camino experience changed for you from beginning to end

•the physical and/or emotional effects of hiking a long-distance trail

•reflections upon your arrival in Santiago

•how the Camino has changed you (your character, values, relations to others)

•post-Camino reflections

Essays up to 3,000 words (approximately 12 pages) are encouraged; longer essays may be accepted.  We invite a range of opinions and approaches – honest, humorous, reflective, spiritual, descriptive, introspective.  We prefer submissions by 1 January 2010.

If you are interested, would like more information, or want to discuss a possible topic, please contact the editors at:  peregrina1974@gmail.com

The editors have walked the Camino multiple times.  Lynn Talbot is Professor of Spanish at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, and first walked the Camino in 1974.  Andrew Squires, her son, now a junior at the College of William and Mary, has completed many long walks, including the Camino, and is majoring in English.