Resistance Words

Resistance Words – Out August 20

A creative writing toolkit for healing, disrupting injustice, and for hope

A book of creative writing exercises to help breathe life into vital issues, to strengthen the brain, the heart, and fuel the struggle.

Find ideas and inspiration, link the personal with the political, make sense of the chaos, humanise, and extract meaning. Use the exercises to process the horror and work through emotions and transform them into something meaningful, beautiful, or useful.

A vital resource for socially-conscious writers and other creatives, as well as for activists, critical thinkers, concerned global citizens, and anyone who wants to break out of routine, problem solve, and convey the harsh context we live in.

Author Tamara Pearson is a journalist, literary fiction writer, editor, and activist with a background in alternative pedagogy and many years teaching writing for empowerment in community schools.

Exercises include ✶Quick creativity warm-ups ✶Processing overwhelming news and anger at injustice ✶Grief for loss and endings ✶Appreciating past struggles ✶Imagine other realities ✶A body’s story ✶Photo challenges ✶Lose clichés ✶Word portraits, and many more.