Speaking Back

<h3><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Working and Writing For Change</span></h3><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Series Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek</span></p><h3></h3><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>What People Are Saying</span></h3><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>At the beginning of this wonderful affirming collection Kate Kostelnik asks us to imagine a more mobile engaged version of writing studies and tutoring. In the essays that follow student contributors bring this vision to life as they describe the spaces identities and practices of writing partnerships across curricular and extracurricular contexts. In these contexts we see a possible future for writing partnerships emerge one built on listening collaboration and respect. This is a future worth imagining.</span></p><p class=ql-align-right><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Charles N. Lesh author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Writing of Where: Graffiti and the Production of Writing Spaces</em></p><p></p><h3><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(67 67 67 1)>Description</span></h3><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the aftermath of the 2017 Summer of Hate University of Virginia scholars resolved to fight bigotry and promote justice and equity in the community. At the direction of Dr. Kate Kostelnik aspiring writing center tutors enacted these values by volunteering in schools hospitals and community centers. Drawing parallels from disciplines such as Speech Therapy Gender Studies and scientific writing these students reflect upon their experiences with community engagement linguistic justice and interdisciplinary inquiry. Offering sharp insights into inclusive practices that enrich tutoring writing centers and community engagement they create writing projects that are brave honest and important. These multifaceted essays Kostelnik asserts consider how our past as writers affects our present as tutors [and] speak back to the troubled world. . . . I'm awestruck by what students can do on the page and in communities. It's a kind of poetry I can't teach; I can only learn from it.</span></p><p></p>