Dear Friends,
I hope this note finds you well and hopefully rested from the recent holidays!
I’m writing to invite you to join us at the Global Writers’ Group Annual (virtual) Showcase, Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 8pm ET. This diverse writing community came together on Freedom Road in 2020, when writers moved from office spaces, cafes and libraries to sequestered Zoom rooms. Over the last five years, Global Writers Group writers have published eight books, and several of our members have books in the publication process. We have written countless commentaries, op-eds, novels, poems–even one song that was featured during the 2022 Super Bowl! We are proud of our track record. We aim not only to write, but to write a new world into being.
Please accept our invitation to be transported, moved, inspired, convicted and nourished by our next level storytellers as they share new stories crafted over the last few months. Many of our showcased works are currently seeking publishing contracts or representation. Our GWG writers have built-in social media capacity across all Freedom Road platforms and throughout the Freedom Road network.
We hope to see you there!
Lisa
Books by Global Writers’ Group members:
Lisa Sharon Harper, Fortune: How Race Broke my Family and the World–and How to Repair It All (Brazos, February 2022)
Amy Kenny, My Body is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church (Brazos, May 2022)
Andre Henry, All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope–and Hard Pills to Swallow–About Fighting for Black Lives (Convergent, March 2022)
Marlena Graves, Forty Days on Being a Nine: Enneagram Daily Reflections (IVP, March 2021)
Ashley Abercrombie, Love is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You've Been Avoiding, and Create Real Change (Baker, August 2021)
Anna Elisabeth Howard, Inward Apocalypse: Uncovering a Faith for the Common Good (Resource Publications, July 2022)
Chante Griffin, Loving your Black Neighbor as Yourself (Waterbrook, July 2024)
Dexter Chapin, The American Idea: Resilience and Thrivancy Education (Vernon Press, 2024)
The Narrative Gap, as coined by Lisa Sharon Harper, is the distance between the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, including how we got here and what it will take to make things right. In our world today, competing narratives vie for our loyalty, dividing society and the church, therefore making justice impossible. Our mission is help communities shrink the narrative gap, by identifying core issues and building community capacity so they might work toward common solutions for a just world. Here on the Freedom Road Substack, we can converse together on ways to shrink that narrative gap and help ensure everyones’ stories are told.
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