Creative Writing Workshops at Cissie Gool House

The Creative Writing Workshops at Cissie Gool House, curated by Delia Meyer, ended on 14 May. The stories and poems were presented by the participants at a reading session to a small audience on the last day of the project. The stories were produced in pdf under the title “Building Blocks”. The Commons Team has decided to support a booklet publication of the stories and is in communication with HBF in this regard. The writers of the stories have agreed to have their work in this publication. Delia Meyer has described the process as follows:

In facilitating the process of the writing of these stories, we embarked on a journey to discover the writer within, and the story. We focused on one story in the lives of the women that spoke to the crux of their experience during a poignant time in their lives. We used the theme of “Homecoming” and explored what it means to each of us. Out of this came a sense of courage and of hope. The women are bilingual, these stories are written in English. In editing, I did not correct grammar excessively, but rather tried to ensure that the rhythm and sound of the women’s authentic voices could be “heard” in the reading and that their chosen words remained unchanged.