We are proud to announce the October 2008 publication of Volume One of Herstory’s long-awaited manual, Paper Stranger: Shaping Stories in Community. A manual/workbook and much more, Paper Stranger offers:
• A unique technique for teachers, healers, social justice workers and community activists, as well as individual writers.
• A bedside book for all who wish to bring out the stories of others, or to give their own stories a shape.
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“There are many charismatic teachers, but Erika Duncan is one of the few who can deconstruct and articulate their methods. Her manual Paper Stranger: Shaping Stories in Community effectively demonstrates the methodology to teach compassion-based listening and story construction. The tools Erika Duncan has developed are dynamic and versatile, and are based on the simple challenge – to shape each piece of your story so that the reader will care. This book will act as a complete kit for teachers looking for something new because it is a passionate testimonial to the power of well-crafted stories. It is a unique handbook and tool for empowerment!”
Erin Gruwell-- author of Freedom Writers Diary
“As a writer I couldn't have thought of my reader in a better way… there are so many good ideas for writers and would-be writers in this book that I'll probably swipe a few for my own use. …It's the kind of book that sets a fire under you, gets you going even before you're ready… My hat is off to a fellow-teacher, from a writer who doesn't feel like such a stranger anymore.”
Marijane Meeker, aka M. E. Kerr
This original treatment of the experience of teaching and writing and reading takes the reader on an adventure chock-full of meditations – about perceptions, about memory, about the nature of connection and separateness – so that even non-writers are able to enjoy its richness. At the same time, a series of concrete exercises sharpens the reader’s understanding of how to turn intimate memories into works of art that are meant to reach out to one another.
Hidden between the lines is also the story of Erika Duncan’s own journey, as the daughter of a therapist who could listen to her patients’ stories but could not make her own story heard, and as Erika’s passion to help each person with a story turn it from a burden into a gift propels her into what Herstory has become.
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Those of you who have followed Herstory’s public readings over the years will be delighted to have your own copies of many of the excerpts that you have heard at our galas and other events, as well as insider peeks into how those writings came into being.
Erika is donating all proceeds from the sale of this volume to the Herstory project – to women writing in prison, to the Latina and the Bridge-Building projects and to training a new generation of Herstory facilitators. Therefore, two-thirds of each $20 purchase is tax-deductible. If you are interested in discussing special rates for ordering 20 copies or more for classroom use, please contact our office manager, Gabriella Luciano.
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