In this episode, we spoke with the team of Write to Remember August 4th from Lebanon. August 4th, 2020 was the day when a large amount of ammonium nitrate exploded at the Port of Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon.
Left to right: Anita, Paula, Hala, and Serine
In this episode, organizers, Paula Habre, Serine Jaafar, Hala Daouk, and Anita Moutchoyan, and two of the participants, Aya Taher and Reve Amaneddine, shared their experiences and reflections about the Write to Remember August 4th project. A transcript of this episode is available for download here.
Resources
- Write to Remember August 4th website
- Two song collaboration with Write to Remember Aug. 4th Participants and American Band Hot Buttered Rum. Used with permission from Writer to Remember August 4th Organizers.
- Bob Yagelski episode on Writing as a Way of Being
- Maurice Blancheau’s L’Écriture du Désastre (The Writing of the Disaster)
The “Slow Agency” Podcast
Created and hosted by your CWCAB editors, the goal of this podcast is to open up time and space in this productivity-saturated culture to slow down and dialogue with leading thinkers and practitioners in writing studies worldwide. The title of the podcast is inspired by Micciche, L. (2011) For slow agency. Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, 35 (1), 73-90. Our inaugural episode features WLN’s journal editors whose wisdom and hard work make this journal and the blog possible.
