Sociality of the Story
Harnessing the Transformative Power of Storytelling
About Sociality of the Story
Sociality of the Story is a Wenner-Gren Foundation funded project that assisted a group of thirteen Congolese young people currently living Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda, with the development and publication of a piece of narrative non-fiction writing. The project grew out of our partnership with Elite Humanitarian Service Team, a refugee founded and led non-profit organization based in Uganda. Through this initiative, young Congolese writers were provided a series of writing workshops by editors, authors and creative writing teachers based in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as a collaborative peer review process where writers were paired with peer reviewers based in the United States, many of whom are part of the broader Stone Soup community. In the collection that follows, we see these young writers explore the junctions of their lives, the moments pregnant with opportunity and ripe with danger. The moments when their very survival was at stake, when chance encounters led to friendship and opportunity, and when familial betrayal or political violence threatened to destroy families, homes, and livelihoods.
Many of the stories presented here were originally published in Junctions, a special issue of Otherwise Magazine, an ethnographic, literary magazine that also partnered with us on this initiative.
Peer Reviewers for this project are: Lena Aloise, Stella Charne, Sydney Da Silva, Liam Hancock, Maximilian Kane, Sofia Kannengiesser, Sophia Kaushik, Niko King-Mahan, Tatum Lovely, Sabrina Lu, Iago Macknik-Conde, Georgia Marshall, and Abhi Sukhdial.
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