story now, craft later
Black and Brown Girls Storytelling Fellowship
TUN's 2024 Storytelling Fellowship provided a platform for Black and brown girls to tell their stories. Each fellow received storytelling training, support and coaching toward the development of a narrative project of their choosing. Our fellowship culminated in a showcase in December where fellows read their work and discussed their process. Get to know our fellows below and experience their work!
Jordan Richo
Jordan's collection of short and flash fiction focuses on black identity, with an exploration of monstrosity that manifests both internally and externally, in an attempt to place marginalized bodies into dreamy gothic narratives that contend with double consciousness and generational trauma that exists in familiar spaces.
Cristina A. Perez
Cristina's poetry collection is about a week she spent in Puerto Rico in 2023. It was the first time she had been back there since her grandfather passed away 5 years prior. It was also the first time she went to Puerto Rico knowing some of its history. In this collection, she includes photos to go with some of the poems to make it feel like a scrapbook.
Zoe Umeh
Zoe's story follows a character who can transfer their consciousness into different physical entities — from humans to bugs to computers. The idea she is exploring is that we are operating physical vessels and our souls reverberate the lost parts of our genuine identities that we forget upon our birth.
Kameryn Thigpen
Kameryn's work consists of 4 essays that speak to different experiences in her activism and liberation journey. These essays include both personal chapters and academic references.
Andreanela Ordoñez-Carbajal
My work builds upon my personal and creative goals as I am pursuing pathways that centers community work, advocacy, and the arts. I interweave my own experiences, my social justice work, and storytelling to bring on change within my communities.
Andreanela's work will be uploaded soon!
Maya Adenihun
My narrative project is a retelling of my journal entries from my first year of college in a digital, interactive archive. The format and story told demonstrates how a writer in the early 21st century is influenced and how their work is a part of a collective narrative.
