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Writing for Social Justice

Reflections on Writing for Social Justice Roundtable by Jan Maher

Reflections on Writing for Social Justice Roundtable by Jan Maher

Posted on January 14, 2018October 1, 2021

At the recent Straw Dog Writers’ Guild roundtable on writing for social justice, we were asked to consider our biggest fear in writing work that challenges the status quo. Make the fear a character, Elli Meeropol suggested, and have a conversation with it.   Primed by reading and hearing aloud the words of Patricia Smith’s Read More

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“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”

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