Proposed commission: “Spring, somewhere”

What we want: a first-person account (800–1,200 words) of seeing spring arrive in a place you had not expected: a blossom you had waited years for, a monastery on a hillside, a garden in a city you did not know well. One place, one morning, one encounter.

What we need: a true story; photographs you own, with permission to publish; and a trip recap (destination and dates, duration, route, budget range with currency and date, transport and accommodation, one thing you wish you had known).

Rights: you keep the copyright; we ask permission to publish and archive with credit, and will show you the edited text before publication. Please do not send invented or composite stories. Write to us via the contact page.