Developed to help those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other
human rights violations use their voices, faces, and stories to call the public to greater compassion and — more importantly — social action, The Voices and Faces Project's award-winning testimonial writing program is supporting a new generation of activists seeking to
use story to create social change. We're not just training writers. We're creating a global community.
We ground each of our writing workshops in a simple belief: That we are here to be heard.
During each immersive, two-day Voices and Faces Project writing workshop, a cohort of emerging and established artists, writers, activists, and survivors come together to read and discuss culture-changing literature from across history and various social justice movements…
take part in a series of innovative, real-time writing exercises…and share creative work in moderated, expert-led workshopping sessions. Over 1300 writers from across the African and North American continents have graduated from our writing program.
Media neutral and genre inclusive, with a focus on memoir, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, op ed,
and essay writing, our trauma-informed and creatively ambitious program was created to
support survivors of injustice who seek to use their personal stories to create political change.
Meet our workshop co-creators, Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo
Our Voices and Faces Project writing program was co-created by novelist R. Clifton Spargo, a lecturer in creative writing at Yale University and graduate of the acclaimed Iowa Writers' Workshop, and activist Anne K. Ream,the founder of The Voices and Faces Project and author of Lived Through This, her memoir of a global journey spent listening to survivors of gender-based violence.
| Available Testimonial Writing Workshops. |
➜ The Stories We Tell, a writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence.
➜ Testimony and Transformation, a writing workshop for currently or formerly incarcerated persons.
➜ Writing a New Refugee Story, a writing workshop for refugee and migrant persons in the US, and in communities across the globe.
➜ Breaking Free, a writing workshop for those impacted by purity culture, religious trauma, and sexual shame.
➜ Up Next, an advanced writing workshop for graduates of one of our testimonial writing programs, designed to help writers advance works-in-progress.
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