by Shannon Turner | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog, nostalgia, vulnerability, walks with grief
I’m pleased to share that I had a story recently published in an online journal called gutwrench. This is by far one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve ever written. I’m hoping to include it in my upcoming book, Walks with Grief. Click here to read...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog, self-image, transformative storytelling, trauma, walks with grief
I like to call it metaphoritis. Artists of all disciplines see metaphors in literally everything. It’s a great opportunity to see the world in this way, to connect up seemingly disparate thoughts or events, to divine meaning in a found penny from a meaningful...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 23, 2019 | Blog
Hey, friends and fans. I’m so pleased to have the opportunity to share with you the full online catalogue of the #GCDDStorytellingProject. As you may remember, I have been a part of a team who has traveled the state of Georgia over the last year and a half,...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog
Recently, in a workshop on resilience by Kevin L. Green at ROOTS Week, our small discussion groups were asked to come up with a definition or metaphor for resilience. We kept coming back to the notion of a rubber band that maintains its elasticity, something that...
by Shannon Turner | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog, improv, manifesting stories, nostalgia
When I was a little girl, we used to play this game at slumber parties called Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board. One girl would lay down and pretend to be dead. The rest of us girls would sit around her body, one at the head. Sometimes “the body” would...
