Vol. I — Correspondence

Letters from women
who have moved
to Finland.

Not stories. Letters. Written by women who arrived in Finland uncertain, and who, somewhere along the way, began to belong here.

— Where are you in this? —

Featured Letter

The Archive

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No. 01
Letters In

If you wish someone
would write to you —

Tell us where you are. Not your address — your interior weather. What you're sitting with this week. Who you wish would write to you. We read every one. We write back, on the site, when a letter finds us — sometimes within a week, sometimes when the right words arrive. There's no promise of a personal reply, only a promise that you've been heard.

We'll know it arrived. We won't always reply, but we'll always read.

Or — have something to say?

Write your own letter.

The archive is built by the women in it. If Finland has shaped you — softly or strangely, recently or years ago — there is a woman just arriving who needs to hear from you.

Write the way you'd write to one woman, not to an audience. The smallest details are usually the truest ones. Take your time. We read every letter with care. Not every one finds its way into the archive — but if yours does, we'll edit gently when it's needed, never your voice, only the typos.

The fine print

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We may make light editorial changes — typos, grammar, formatting, occasional small cuts for length — but we will never alter your voice, your meaning, or your message. If we want to make a larger change, we'll email you first (provided you've given us an email and ticked the second box).

We may quote short excerpts from your letter elsewhere on the site or in marketing of heyhelsinki, always credited the way you signed it.

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The full version of how this works lives on our Editorial Policy page — including how to ask for a letter to be taken down, what happens if heyhelsinki ever changes hands, and how we handle your privacy.

We read every letter that finds us.