VINE Book Club: Reading to Write

Want to improve your writing skills so that you can advocate for animals more effectively? Come to this free special meeting of the VINE Book Club featuring award-winning author and writing instructor Joy Castro. This special book club session on reading to write is also the first of a new series of VINE events intended to amplify animal advocacy by enhancing the writing of activists and scholars. Read one or more of the recommended books listed below, and then join author and writing instructor Joy Castro to discuss how to apply what you learned to your own work. Choose Castro's novel One Brilliant Flame as an example of intersectional and ecological story-telling. Choose the essay collection entitled Family Trouble to think through the ethical quandaries that arise when writing narratives in which real people appear. Choose Castro's acclaimed essay collection The Truth Book for aid in writing about unspeakable violence. Visit the VINE Book Club webpage for links to all of these recommended books: https://vinesanctuary.org/vine-book-club