Say it Forward

Edited by Cliff Mayotte and Claire Kiefer

Hear from authors, educators, and journalists in this guide to social justice storytelling. In addition to being a collection of stories and past projects, this book teaches how to avoid retraumatization, preserve oral histories, and conduct field reports. Learn techniques and formats to conduct interviews, remember stories, and change the world.

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “Our DIY guide offers strategies and resources for creating justice-driven oral history projects. Oral history is a universal form of storytelling. For many years Voice of Witness (VOW) has documented and shared powerful stories of people impacted by injustice. Say It Forward extends this work, offering a DIY guide for social justice storytelling that outlines the critical methodology at the core of VOW’s evocative oral history collections.”

Details

Publisher: Voice of Witness

Publication year: 2018

Age range: Young Adult and Adult

Genre: Non-Fiction, Narrative, Interviews

Language: English