Ink and Imagination: Building a Creative Community for Young Writers

• In Event: Writing Practices and Communities

Abstract

This paper explores intergenerational writing and making as acts of resistance through community workshops centering families’ cultural and linguistic knowledge. Using narrative and content analysis, data analysis examined how storytelling and multimodal making connect with identity formation. Findings highlight the importance of play and intergenerational composition through literacies that affirm creative identities and counter deficit narratives. The findings imply a need for expansive and humanizing literacies by situating literacy as a social and civic endeavor.

Authors

• Kristina Stamatis, University of Nebraska Omaha

• Erica Holyoke, University of Colorado Denver

• Sarah Woodard, Denver Writing Project