Personal Narrative, Collective Pain: Healing Trauma with Prose & Poetry, is a book which serves as a framework for the healing of trauma in the African community with use of personal narrative, prose & poetry. This book provides a detailed outline of curriculum for a 6 week creative writing workshop series designed to help African women heal from chronic trauma exposure. Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. In Personal Narrative, Collective Pain, we focus on identifying & healing trauma by developing the narrative voice of those left voiceless as a result of a...