How Dare We! Write

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Sherry Quan Lee, editor, challenged 24 multicultural writers to respond to the question, “How Dare We? Write.” Their personal narratives reveal how and why they write, uncovering the difficulties that often arise due to culture, race, class, gender and/or sexuality, and the intersections among them; narratives that main stream teachers and publishers may not recognize or understand, but must, in order to provide multicultural writers with constructive feedback and a path toward publication.

Each narrative includes a creative writing exercise which may be used as a personal or group writing prompt, or framework for college, high school, or community writing workshops.

Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, Professor of English at West Chester University extols: “HOW DARE WE! WRITE offers a much needed corrective to creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider the following questions: what does it mean for an indigenous, or black, or Latinx, or Asian, or Middle Eastern, or LGBTQIA+ American to become a writer? ...What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, to stand against traditions that silence you, to stand in your truth about your identity so that you can claim, fearlessly, your history, your trauma, your joy...”

Contributors include: Gabriella Anais Deal-Marquez, Marcie Rendon, Marlina Gonzalez, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Lori Young-Williams, Jessica Lopez Lyman, Luis M Lopez, Sagirah Shahid, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Tou SaiKo Lee, Anya Achtenberg, Ginny Allery, Wesley Brown, Kandace Creel Falcón, Olive Lefferson, Christine Stark, Isela Gomez R., Bell Brown, Brenda, "William S. Yellow Robe, Jr, Ching-In Chen, Sweta Vikram, Hei Kyong Kim, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, and Taiyon Coleman.