Crafting and sharing powerful narratives in Guatemala City

It was around my fourth cup of coffee on the second day when I finally thought, “OK, I think this is going to work.”

Researchers, academics, non-profit administrators and warriors on the front lines of gender equity work: perhaps they can write powerful personal and reflective narratives. Even without much previous training writing in this form.

But I wasn’t so sure at first.

I’m a creative writing teacher, a journalist and an author. I’m accustomed to teaching students who are interested in writing novels, memoirs, personal essays and topical opinion pieces. Those with aspirations to be writers with a capital “W.”