5 Your story is your power.

Application period is open for our Stories We Tell writing workshop at University of Southern California. Apply today! | View this online.

RefuSHE student Gyslaine (left) and Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream (right) during The Voices and Faces Project's Stories We Tell writing workshop in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project’s award-winning testimonial writing workshop, is coming to USC in June. Apply today!

Through generous support from the Van Otterloo Family Foundation, and in partnership with USC's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, The Voices and Faces Project is returning to Los Angeles to offer its signature writing workshop, The Stories We Tell, June 4-5, 2022.

This is an in person, immersive, two-day testimonial writing program for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations. During our workshop, participants will read and discuss world-changing testimonial writing and art from across social movements and history, reflect on how to share their own testimonies, and engage in a series of innovative, real-time writing exercises and free-write sessions. With a focus on memoir, fiction, non-fiction and poetry, The Stories We Tell was created to support those who seek to use writing as a vehicle for personal or political transformation. The workshop was co-created and is led by novelist and Yale University creative writing instructor R. Clifton Spargo and Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream.

Applications are due May 15, 2022; accepted participants are given full tuition scholarships.

Proof of vaccination + booster or negative COVID test within 72 hours is required to participate.

APPLY »

Join us for a 5/26 conversation between novelist and Lambda Literary Awards finalist Chris Stark and WE Tell Stories creator Anne K. Ream

Award-winning novelist Chris Stark, author of Carnival Lights.

Writer and activist Chris Stark, a valued gender justice ally, has a new novel out. We can't wait to celebrate it!

Called "beautifully woven and gut-wrenching" by New York Times bestselling author William Kent Kruger, and "a heartbreaking wonder of gorgeous prose" by PEN/Hemingway award winner Mona Susan Power, Carnival Lights tells the story of two Ojibwe cousins who leave their reservation for a new life in Minneapolis.

A literary exploration of love, loss, and generational trauma, Carnival Lights asks us to re-think the causes and consequences of sexual exploitation, while celebrating the fierce resiliency of Native women and girls.

On Thursday, May 26, 7pm Eastern, join WorldWE for a virtual celebration and conversation between Chris and writer Anne K. Ream, the creator of the WE Tell Stories Literary Conversation Series. We look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP HERE»

Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change.

The Voices and Faces Project is an award-winning non-profit storytelling initiative created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. Through our educational and advocacy trainings, survivor story archive and signature program, The Stories We Tell — an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations — we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America, and is a registered 501c3 organization.

About »

Writing Workshop »

Advocacy Trainings »

Statement on Racial Justice »

Support »

voicesandfaces.org

info@voicesandfaces.org