AACLC Tutor Runs Creative Writing Workshop at Jennifer Road Detention Center
A Literacy Council tutor recently launched a creative writing workshop for women at the Jennifer Road Detention Center. She shares about this special offering:
Guiding a creative writing workshop for women at the Jennifer Road Detention Center, affirms the extraordinary power and beauty of the human imagination. Writing includes paragraphs written during the session and short stories assigned for the next meeting. Reading aloud their writings, the young women share their vision of worlds imagined and plots of intrigue with vivid descriptions, cliffhangers, and surprise endings. Rewarding and inspirational, this volunteer experience celebrates the resilience and creativity of the human imagination.
Resource material: PEN America’s “The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison.”
– Susan H. Volunteer, Anne Arundel County Literacy Council
