Creative Writing | Write To Right

WE NEED WRITING NOW MORE THAN EVER

Using Write to Right's® own curriculum, our free of charge, in-person workshops provide people with the tools they need to advocate for and communicate about the causes and issues they believe in

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OUR MISSION

Write to Right® teaches creative writing as a tool for self-expression, self-transformation, and social change. We believe everyone deserves access to meaningful opportunities to tell their stories, regardless of age, background, or circumstance. Through Write to Right's original curriculum, participants develop their writing, strengthen their voices, and build community while creating a culminating anthology at the end of each workshop. Although creative writing fosters communication, imagination, confidence, and empathy, many communities have limited access to high-quality writing instruction. Write to Right works to close that gap by bringing engaging, accessible creative writing workshops to communities, empowering participants to express themselves and create change in their lives and those around them.

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"As founder of Write to Right, [Tara's] spreading the joy of writing to her peers through training and to young people from all backgrounds with student-led workshops. But she doesn’t stop there. The goal is not only creative expression, but social transformation. Friends of the Library, Montgomery County has been proud to partner with Write to Right to offer free writing workshops in libraries to students of our Mosaic creative writing program. Seeing her team take young writers on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment is powerful and downright magical. Tara Prakash is the hope we need and leader this world deserves."

-- Ari Brooks, Executive Director, Friends of the Library, Montgomery County

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“Write to Right engaged the kids in a variety of writing exercises and activities to develop their writing skills to make differences in the world. The students loved it. We would love to have Write to Right back!”

-- Maurice Hill, program coordinator for Hearst Elementary School

Is There Value in Uncomfortable Literature?

The acclaimed Nobel-prize winning writer Toni Morrison dealt with narratives that were inherently uncomfortable. Her most well-known work, Beloved, challenged conventional norms in a way that was both thematic and literary. Beloved is the fictional account of a formerly enslaved woman literally haunted by the ghost of her eldest, deceased daughter. Despite employing magical realism, the novel is nonetheless brutally realistic, to a nearly unrelenting degree. Elements of the

Brian Li

May 312 min read

T.S Eliot and Writing As Empathy

“April is the cruelest month,” once wrote the 20th century poet T.S Eliot in what would become one of his most acclaimed works, the sprawling anthology called The Waste Land, “breeding/lilacs out of the dead land/mixing memory and desire.” Eliot referred to the advent of spring post-First World War, a time of negotiated peace nonetheless made tragic by the shadow of past violence, during which in the poem, Eliot conducts a vividly melancholy search for meaning. Although the A

Brian Li

Apr 302 min read

Storytelling, History, and Community

In West African tradition, a unique fixture of local communities was known as a djali , a specialized societal role that served a unique set of varied purposes. Functionally, djalis held a multitude of positions - ranging from acting as direct aides to kings to accompanying villages and sometimes even particular families. The latter was more common by far, as the role they performed was that of a narrative historian, using oral and musical conventions to record and reference

Brian Li

Mar 313 min read

A word after a word after a word is power.

- Margaret Atwood

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WE NEED WRITING NOW MORE THAN EVER

Using Write to Right's® own curriculum, our free of charge, in-person workshops provide people with the tools they need to advocate for and communicate about the causes and issues they believe in

®

OUR MISSION

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