This Is How It Is: True Stories from South Africa by the Life Righting Collective (edited by Dawn Garisch)
09 May 2018
The Life Righting Collective runs courses for anyone who wants to learn to write about their experiences. The approach promotes self-discovery, self-recovery and more effective communication. We raise funds to make courses available to those in need of sponsorship and to provide platforms for these life stories to be published. Sharing experiences with a wide readership can help reduce discrimination and promote mutual understanding. This book aims to do just that.
About Dawn Garisch and the Life Righting Collective:
Dawn Garisch has been running life writing courses since 2010. She has run these for individual participants across South Africa, as part of the ASSITEJ young theatre makers programme, the UFS Academic Support programme, the UCT Art in Medicine course and the UCT Entrepreneur course. Dawn is a medical doctor, as well as an award-winning writer, having published six novels, two poetry collections and two works of non-fiction. She has also had plays, television scripts and one short film produced. Dawn is in the process of training other facilitators so that life writing, and the life skills that result, will be made available to more people.
Release date: May 2018
ISBN: 978-1-928232-56-8
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