How Dare We Write! 2nd Edition Reading at East Side Freedom Library, October 16, 2022

Contributors to How Dare We! Write read their own works! “This book turned out to be unlike any writing reference book I have read. Of the thirty-odd writing books in my collection, many have spoken to my identity as one who loves the written word, as a recovering perfectionist, as …

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East Side Freedom Library reading January 27, 2018

In  order of appearance:  Lori Young-Williams, Isela Xitlali Gomez R., Hei Kyong Kim, Chris Stark, Luis Lopez, Sherrie Fernandez Williams, Sagirah Shahid, and Brenda Bell Brown. In red shirt, Peter Rachleff, East Side Freedom Library, Co-Executive Director.

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Anya Achtenberg: “The Disobedient Writer”- A Writer Who Dares

https://thedisobedientwriter.com/about/ “If my house were burning down, I would grab artwork, my book, and the notebooks I wrote in Anya’s classes. If you’re looking for an average writing teacher or editor, go elsewhere. Anya resides in the upper stratosphere of creativity and, if you let her, will lift your writing …

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Brenda Bell Brown, filmaker: a writer who dares!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5bvYObqLFwuQVhJSkVSck1nNGs/view?usp=sharing Click on the link above to see a film by Brenda Bell Brown.   I am a writer an editor a social justice advocate, but I don’t have the answers.  But we all have stories.  And Writers Who Dare! are sharing theirs whether through the written word, spoken word, …

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