Writing Through
Writing Through is a US-registered international educational non-profit whose workshops use the creative writing of poems, stories and journal entries to develop critical and creative thinking skills in at-risk and marginalized segments of communities worldwide. Although founded in Cambodia, we now work globally, expanding into Vietnam, Singapore, Mexico, the United States and more.
Sue Guiney is an internationally published poet and novelist who founded Writing Through in 2014 as a response to observed failures in educational systems. She is also a keen amateur musician and has experienced the effect that working within the arts has had on her own creativity and thinking skills. She is passionate about the belief that having the skills to discover your voice and the platform to share it is a basic human right, and the key to accessing those skills is the arts. That passion led her to found Writing Through which has grown globally despite being a very small organization with a staff of three and limited funding.
Programs & Activities
Writing Through is both the name of the organization and the name of the workshop which it has developed. It brings its bespoke workshops to institutions and organizations which support the at-risk and marginalized in communities worldwide. These workshops use a variety of creative writing and public speaking techniques to help provide the skills that allow us to find our voices and share them.
Our workshop has been proven to work with students, adults, the elderly, the cognitively or physically handicapped, the economically challenged. We work with native language speakers, and also within an English as a Second Language context. We can also provide our workshops in Spanish, with more languages to come.
Our workshops can be held in person or online, and our workshop facilitators are specially trained via a robust on-line course.