Press
We welcome press inquiries about our work. Our press contacts are Carole Florman, carole@veteranswriting.org; and Ron Capps, ron@veteranswriting.org
A story in AARP Magazine by Tim Wendel about our work that also lists many of our colleagues.
https://www.aarp.org/home-family/voices/veterans/info-2019/helping-deal-with-ptsd.html
A story in the Baltimore Sun about one of several workshops with the Howard County, MD, Public Library system, featuring Dario DiBattista.
A profile of our director and several VWP workshop participants in the University of Maryland’s TERP magazine.
http://terp.umd.edu/damage-controlled/#.XEntfM9KjOQ
A profile of the Veterans Writing Project by Kristina Shevory in The Believer magazine.
http://www.believermag.com/issues/201508/?read=article_shevory
A profile of the Veterans Writing Project by Bret McCabe in Johns Hopkins magazine.
http://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/summer/veterans-writing-project
A profile of the Veterans Writing Project by Amanda Calderon in Poets and Writers magazine.
http://www.pw.org/content/a_safe_space_for_veteran_writers
A front page article about our work by Corinne Reilly in the Virginian Pilot.
http://hamptonroads.com/2014/07/words-war-peace-mind
An interview with our director by Eric Westervelt on NPR’s All Things Considered.
An interview with our director by Marco Werman on PRI’s The World.
DoD reporter Amaani Lyle reported on our workshop for Defense.gov.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121708
An interview with our director by Bob Edwards on Sirius XM.
https://seriouslynotallright.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/bob-edwards-ron-capps.mp3
An interview with our director by Leonard Lopate on WNYC, New York City’s NPR station.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/seriously-not-all-right/
An interview with our director by Kojo Nnamdi on WAMU, Washington DC’s NPR station.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2014-06-24/seriously-not-all-right-ron-capps
A story in the New York Times about our work at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center written by Cecelia Capozzi Simon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/education/edlife/veterans-learn-to-write-and-heal.html?_r=0
A story on NPR about our work and the launch of our journal, O-Dark-Thirty.
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/12/164979747/writing-project-helps-veterans-cope-after-war
A Soldiers Magazine story about Veterans Writing Project’s seminars.
http://soldiers.dodlive.mil/2012/02/owning-your-story-how-writing-helps-veterans-heal/
An interview with our founder on PRI’s The World about the healing power of narrative.
An Associated Press story about our work.
Two graduates of VWP seminars write about their wartime experiences and after for the New York Times.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/writing-to-calm-and-compose-the-injured-brain/
BBC reporting on our work at NICoE– The National Intrepid Center of Excellence. All of our instructors work with Operation Homecoming at NICoE.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18401167
The National Endowment for the Arts featured our work in their quarterly magazine NEA Arts.
http://www.nea.gov/about/nearts/storyNew.php?id=01_themajic&issue=2012_v2
A story in USO On Patrol magazine about our work.
http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/04/02/veterans-writing-project-helps
A story from DoD’s New Service about our work.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121708
The Association of the United States Army (AUSA) ran a story about us in their newsletter.
http://www.ausa.org/publications/ausanews/archives/2014/01/Pages/VeteransWritingProject.aspx
From The Hatchet, the George Washington University’s student newspaper, a report on our collaboration with GWU:
http://www.gwhatchet.com/2012/02/09/a-new-chapter-for-war-stories/
Local DC NPR station WAMU broadcast this piece about our work.
http://wamu.org/programs/metro_connection/12/03/02/veterans_write_to_cope_with_battlefield_memories
Image: An American soldier mans his M2 machine gun in Iraq, 2004. (Clifton Reeves)