Creating Identity and Building Community Through Writing
Project Mend has earned support from Humanities New York, the Syracuse University Humanities Center, Engaged Humanities Network, the SOURCE, the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, and a CUSE research grant.
Project Mend team members Katherine Nikolau ’24, Michael J. Willacy
and Patrick W. Berry serve as panelists at a Syracuse Stage event.
When students in the College of Arts and Sciences enroll in Associate Professor Patrick Berry’s class on writing and rhetoric, they likely think, correctly, that they will learn the foundations of good writing across various genres. However, they may not imagine that Berry’s vision for the class involves a less tangible side effect: building community. And that community fostered through the experience of writing and sharing work inspired Berry to found Project Mend.
This year, for the second time, Berry will be awarded a $25,000 Post-Incarceration Grant from Humanities New York to fund his work with Project Mend, an online and print magazine of works by people impacted by the criminal justice system... [Read the full SU News article.]