While the pandemic rages on, communities all over the country continue to face systemic injustice. For our next theme, we’re asking our writers to consider what Justice means to them. Now more than ever, we want our young writers to tell stories exploring how Justice is recognized, served, and sustained –– and where it falls short. Whether legislative, judicial, nonviolent or revolutionary –– Justice must be served, and writing about is the first step.
I love that The Decameron Project brings so many kinds of history together – literary, cultural, political – and makes them live in the present. Individual stories in a collective reality. I’m wildly curious to know what all of you are seeing, thinking and feeling, and what words you choose to express that.
Student writers are the core of our Project. Jackie Cole, a junior in high school, was our first winner in our untamed writing category –– click here to hear her thoughts on the project, and her reaction to her story being read aloud by Advisory Board member Judith Thurman.
While a student organization, The Decameron Project partners with a broad range of prominent literary figures – including prize-winning authors, journalists, and teachers – who compose our advisory board. They recognize the value of our mission, and help in any way they can to make it a reality.
The Center for Fiction supports and celebrates the creation of fiction in all its forms. It brings communities together as readers and writers of all ages to share and develop a passion for storytelling. Over its long history, it has featured Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Beecher Stowe as speakers; and Edgar Allan Poe as a resident writer. We’re proud to partner with The Center for Fiction, and their KidsRead program, in making The Decameron Project a reality.
