Publishing
The Narrative Storytelling Initiative is committed to working with academicians, professional writers and others in the community who are motivated to develop their narrative skills. While this can take the form of leading writing workshops, one-on-one consulting or idea development and editing, we also have created multiple platforms for writers to produce and showcase their work.
Transformations Essays
Transformations is an online magazine of narrative essays focused on life-changing experiences and events. These essays are typically deeply personal and situated in a larger societal context. This narrative project is a publishing channel within the Los Angeles Review of Books. Find submission guidelines at transformationnarratives.com/submissions.
Transformations Books
With a focus on narrative storytelling, the newly launching Transformations Books explores issues of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as shaped by the lived experiences of authors and grounded in specific locations domestically and globally. Transformations book series was created in partnership with Temple University Press.
Object Lessons & More
A sampling of books published with creative and editorial support from the Narrative Storytelling Initiative.
Rolf Halden
Writing Workshops
Published Writing
Andrew Maynard
Pardis Mahdavi
Clive Wynne
Ayanna Thompson
An opportunity for faculty, graduate students and external organizations to advance their ideas and hone their writing on specific projects geared for wide public audiences. This includes half-day, one-day and two-day workshops.
This sample collection includes pieces in which the Narrative Storytelling Initiative was actively involved, sometimes in the writing, idea and story development, and editing processes—or all of the above.
What’s the story? Creative ways to communicate your research (Times Higher Education)
The transformative potential of narrative writing explained (Times Higher Education)
Scholars Need to Act with Greater Urgency (Times Higher Education)
The pace of change (The Hill)
It's time to really see the results of mass shootings (Star Tribune)
Community land trusts could help heal segregated cities (The Conversation)
Drones to deliver incessant buzzing noise, and packages (The Conversation)
Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change (The Conversation)
Now Entering the Gray Zone (Transformations)
Why the Youth Movement Matters (ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory)
A world on fire: Will we respond? (ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory)
Earth Day at 50: An opportunity to hit reset on improving planet's well-being (The Arizona Republic)