Tell Your Peace Corps Volunteer Story: “A Message with Merit”
Friends of Liberia is hosting a Writing Workshop!
Susan E. Greisen, author and Liberia RPCV, is offering a FREE two-part workshop for Recently Evacuated Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, and any Volunteers from Liberia who served since 2015.
No previous writing experience is required! All writing styles – including poetry are welcome.
The first three Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers to register for this workshop will receive a FREE COPY of Susan’s book, In Search of Pink Flamingos, which is described at the end of this post.
Goal:
Tell our Peace Corps stories to the public to effect change!
Objectives:
- Understand the basics of what brings a story to life
- Learn the characteristics of a good storyteller
- Gain courage and confidence to tell your stories
- Gain new writing knowledge/skills
- Learn different ways to reach your audience and spread your message!
When:
- Part 1: Saturday, June 20th at 7-8:30 pm Eastern Time
- Part 2: TBD – Participants will be given the opportunity to share their stories without critique and carry this mission forward!
Copy and paste the Zoom link below into your browser to register. Registration is required for this event. This workshop will only include up to 20 participants at this time, so please sign up soon!
Time: Jun 20, 2020 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81352105075?pwd=b0FMZ2k5ZEd5ekpVSlJjTkhtZEQ5QT09
Meeting ID: 813 5210 5075
Password: 881127
Susan E. Greisen, raised on a remote farm in Nebraska, searched for adventure and a broader understanding of life. Her work as a nurse took her to remote parts of the world as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia 1971-73 and Tonga 1973-74. She later worked for CARE in Cameroon, 1980-82. She has journeyed to over forty countries on six continents and is a published poet and author. Susan’s travel photographs have been featured online by the BBC News. To effect change, Susan’s third PC goal is to make our country and world a better place through the written word.
In Search of Pink Flamingos is a story of a young woman who defies her parents’ demands to become a farmer’s wife. At age nineteen, with a suitcase full of farm-smarts and a license to be a practical nurse, Susan joins the Peace Corps in Africa. She meets multiple challenges in her remote Liberian village and falls short of her unrealistic goals. An interracial romance further aggravates her parents who eventually disown her. When Susan finds the pink flamingos, she discovers what she had been searching for all along. Her journey is one of passion, strength and finding forgiveness and unconditional love.