In the video “How to Talk About War,” Christopher Merrill (IWP) and journalist Jacki Leyden talk with novelist Victoria Amelina and Roman Avramenko, Executive Director of Truth Hounds, about documenting war crimes in Ukraine...and about the culture that is being destroyed.
Course Description
Russia and Armenia, Nov. 2018
Research suggests that narrative and expressive writing have powerful healing effects. As writer and University of Iowa professor Charles D’Ambrosio once said, “Instead of sobbing, you write sentences.” In this course, "Write for Your Life: Turning Trauma into Stories", we explored strategies to create vivid, compelling stories (fiction and/or nonfiction) from difficult experiences such as illness, trauma, or disability. We focused on the elements of craft while addressing the challenges of writing from personal suffering. As a community of writers, we examined and discussed published texts, and provided feedback on student work. By the end of the course, participants had produced a significant body of narrative prose.
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