Share Your Story
There is no Portland Stories without your Portland stories. If you don't send them to us, this site has no reason for being. There are only a few general guidelines with which you should be familiar.
- Stories must be set in Portland. It doesn't matter when or where, as long as they occured in any of the eight specified sections of Portland.
- These are your stories. These aren't stories that someone else experienced (there are always exceptions, such as you being there as they experienced them), or stories from Portland history.
- Believe in your own story. Use it to add to your definition of the city, its people, and/or your place in it.
- Above all else, be honest. After all, the best stories are the ones that are true.
It's also important to state up front that this is an edited site, although perhaps "curated" is the more appropriate term. All stories must be approved for publication.
In practice, rejection of stories will not result from their content, but their form. Portland Stories is intended to be fairly straightforward -- titles, paragraphs, and normal text. Generally speaking, this means (for example) no special formatting or use of typographical characters to denote emphasis, since in this medium, boldface and italic are available.
To share your story with Portland Stories, fill out the form below, or email it to us, along with your story's title, and which area of the City in which the story takes place. Also include any email address or URL you wish to have associated with your name, if any. This is optional, if you'd prefer readers respond by posting to the site rather than contacting you directly.
Note: Portland Stories is now podcast-enabled. If you have the capability to record mp3s, consider emailing a recording of you reading the story you've submitted. Through this site's RSS 2.0 feed, readers will be able to automatically download these recordings and transfer them to their iPod or other mp3 player.
Each story belongs to its owner or owners. Stories submitted prior to November of 2005 are owned by their respective authors and cannot be used without their permission. Stories submitted starting in November of 2005 are are owned by their respective authors but usage is covered by the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license from Creative Commons. the Reprint And Republication Rights page for further details.