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Molly Boeder Harris during a Stories We Tell workshop at the Chicago Cultural Center
The Stories We Tell
A writing workshop for survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence and trafficking

The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's immersive, two-day testimonial writing program, was developed to help those who have survived or witnessed gender-based violence use their stories to call the public to greater compassion and social action.

During our writing workshop, participants discuss examples of world-changing testimonial writing from various social movements and take part in a series of innovative, real-time writing exercises. We seek to support emerging and established writers, activists, and direct service providers as they think about what testimonial writing is, and why it matters. We help workshop participants imagine how they can most effectively carry forward the work of witness. Above all, we encourage the creativity of our participants, leading them to find new sources of personal and political power within themselves and their poetry, memoir, fiction, spoken word or creative non-fiction.

October 27-28 2018
10am-5pm (Saturday) • 11am-5pm (Sunday)
Brought to you by The Voices and Faces Project in partnership with Villanova University.

Applications are required: Email janet@voicesandfaces.org Application due date: Friday October 5, 2018
Meet the workshop co-founders, Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo.

Anne K. Ream is the founder of The Voices and Faces Project and the author of Lived Through This, a memoir of her global journey spent listening to the testimonies of gender-based violence survivors. Anne's writing has appeared in The New Republic, Los Angeles Times, The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. A founding board member of Art Works for Change and an advisory board member of RAINN, the country's largest anti-sexual violence organization, Anne is also a founding co-chair at World Without Exploitation, where she created the nation's first-ever large scale archive of trafficking and exploitation testimonies.

R. Clifton Spargo is a novelist and cultural critic. An alumnus of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is author of the novel Beautiful Fools, as well as award-winning stories in venues such as The Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, and The Kenyon Review. His essays on literature, music, and culture have appeared in The Wall Street Journal., The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Newcity, and The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. An expert in ethics, testimony, and Holocaust studies, he is a former fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and author of two books of literary philosophy on ethics, mourning, and the cultural memory of injustice. He currently teaches creative writing at Yale University.

Special thanks to our workshop's co-sponsors.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia's Office for Child and Youth Protection; Carole Landis Foundation – Action for Social Change; and Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Science, Charles Widger School of Law – The Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women's Leadership.

 

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  Support The Voices and Faces Project’s Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund.


Find out more about giving the gift of change by donating to our writing workshop scholarship fund. Every $500 raised provides a full two-day scholarship for a survivor waiting to take part in our program.

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