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Writing Skills Development Project |
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The Writing Skills Development Project was designed in response to the difficulties that emerging black academic and activist women experience in writing for publication.
Being able to write requires levels of literacy that range from basic understandings of spelling to complex engagements with and manipulations of the rules of grammar, structure, analysis and form. Since a democratic society is reliant on citizens being given every opportunity to express themselves freely in an environment that is inclusive, this goal is undermined if only the select, educated elite of the population are able to communicate their views and desires through reproducible communication tools.
The Writing Project focuses on the need for women to express their needs, wants and demands without intermediary media agents. The Writing Project attempts to create tools and training that will better enable women to express themselves through writing in forms that best benefit their work and personal lives. This project is unique because of its dynamic and participatory approach to teaching and learning. Writers and mentors develop lifelong skills and a self-reliance they can use in all areas of their work. Agenda has developed associated media products to ensure that each new writer participating in the project will have their work published.
Participants of the Writing Project are emerging women who have never been given the opportunity to publish and women who feel unskilled and insecure about their ability to do so. In this respect, an emerging writer is not necessarily a young writer, but rather a woman who has the desire to publish and tell her story but has been unable to or incapable of doing it.
The project gives preference to female writers from historically disadvantaged backgrounds that are keen to explore their lives, experiences and histories from a gendered perspective.
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Writing Skills Development Project 
