Announcing a New and Expanded Edition of Paper Stranger: Shaping Stories in Community
Writing and empowerment tool features a 70-page section for students in university and high school programs

Herstory is proud to announce the publication of a new and expanded edition of Paper Stranger, with a new 70-page section that forms a mini-course in our compassion-based method designed for younger writers just starting out in the memoir-writing journey. A rich selection of works by younger writers about immigration, searching for roots and birth stories, and first moments of awareness of injustice – integrated with works of older writers looking back at childhood and adolescence, as well as a selection by a young formerly incarcerated writer, asking the reader to look into her eyes. To download a press release, click here.

Set up as a four-week course to launch students on their own memoir-writing journey, topics include: “finding your ‘page one moment,’” “letting your story make a difference” and “catching moments of awareness on the page.” The selections cut across race, class and culture and make a strong case for what Herstory has found to be true again and again: the art of shaping our stories into a form that another will be able to hear belongs to us all.

Nina Wolff, founding director of Ethnic Pen, a nationally recognized student writers’ conference hosted by Bay Shore Schools and attended annually by 1000 students and teachers from across Long Island, had high praise for Paper Stranger, especially the new section for younger writers. She writes: “This complete writing course is unlike any program I have seen in my long career as English teacher and administrator. It is not a recipe book for one-size-fits-all formulaic writing, but an authentic guide on how to give structure to feelings and experiences. This writing program would be a perfect springboard for creating outstanding college admission essays and other memoirs that inform the writer and engage the reader.”

We invite you to sample this expanded edition for the discounted price of $22. This discount will be in effect through July 30, 2010. To order the new edition, click here To talk to us about bringing the associated program to your school, along with training workshops for your faculty and staff, please contact us at 631-676-7395 or contactus@herstorywriters.org