Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Beyond the Words
    Beyond the Words
    Beyond the Words
    Ebook39 pages24 minutes

    Beyond the Words

    By Scripting Change

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Beyond the Words is the second anthology published by Scripting Change, a community writing initiative that aims to make a positive social difference. All of the work required to bring together this anthology was volunteered. This year's project highlights the importance of literacy and will support the nonprofits Read for Literacy, in Ohio; Literacy Action, in Georgia; and Page Ahead, in Washington, all of which foster literacy in their communities. 100% of proceeds* from this (and every) Scripting Change book are donated!

    *Proceeds = (Cost of book) — (% taken by distributor)

    Editors: Anya Kagan and Kristyn F. Brunson
    Cover design by: Lynsay Flynt

    Contributors: Faith Breisblatt, Kristyn F. Brunson, Kathy DeFlane, Aria Glazki, Aaron Jackson, Alison LeBlanc, Celena McDonnell, Austin D. Nichols, Margit Sage, Nada Adel Sobhi, Seker Solis, Dave M. Strom

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScripting Change
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9781370600519
    Beyond the Words
    Author

    Scripting Change

    Scripting Change is a community writing project, which aims to raise funds for nonprofit organizations. The basic idea is:- Writers (and a cover designer) donate their work, relating to a given project's theme, which reflects the mission of the recipient nonprofit- Coordinators donate their time to bring everything together into an e-book- The entire project has a $0 cost so...- 100% of each e-book's proceeds are donated to the nonprofit matched with that e-book

    Read more from Scripting Change

    Related to Beyond the Words

    Related ebooks

    Anthologies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Shelf Life

      Apr 6, 2023

      Shelf Life
      6 min read

    • Article

      Why Do Found Texts Fascinate Us So Much?

      Jun 6, 2019

      We don’t know the writer, nor the intended recipient, nor the intention. The text comes from nowhere and finds us as much as we find it. It haunts us. The post Why Do Found Texts Fascinate Us So Much? appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Tiny Doable Things

      Dec 15, 2021

      IN THE prologue to her novel The Book of Form and Emptiness (Viking, 2021), Ruth Ozeki writes, “A book must start somewhere. One brave letter must volunteer to go first, laying itself on the line in an act of faith, from which a word takes heart and

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz

      Dec 23, 2019

      Chalk it up in the How Books Are Bad column, I guess: They shore you up as a reading subject instead of letting you blur out. What a misdeed. The post A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Chloe Hooper

      Dec 1, 2022

      To read an extract from Bedtime Story ‘When my partner was diagnosed with an aggressive leukemia, I turned to the bookshelf to find a tale to help our two young sons. Bedtime Story, my own recently published book, details the quest to find what pract

      1 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jennifer S. Cheng

      Dec 21, 2021

      This list, culled to 10 entries, is a history of care and tenderness these past several months. It traces a web of connections against the distances of the moment. The post A Year in Reading: Jennifer S. Cheng appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Nicola Chester

      Mar 9, 2023

      Nicola Chester
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nicola Chester

      Mar 9, 2023

      Nicola Chester
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Adrienne Celt

      Dec 11, 2018

      At some point in the middle of this year, I began worrying that my education was wearing off. Not that I was getting stupider, exactly, but that in the years-long absence of coursework, my reading was becoming less rigorous and my choices more predic

      4 min read

    • Article

      Announcing The winners Of Our FLASH CONTEST

      Feb 29, 2020

      I sever the first two fingers of my left hand on a Tuesday. They fall to the ground at my feet, causing a momentary confusion as I wonder what tree has dropped this odd fruit. Then I see the crescent scar left behind by a fish hook and know that thes

      8 min read

    • Article

      Kate Brody

      Jan 4, 2024

      My second-grade teacher, Ms. Axelrod, hosted a writers’ workshop every Friday afternoon. Each week, we would write, edit, and ‘publish’ new stories. I had always loved reading and telling stories, but the publication part was new and alluring. I stil

      4 min read

    • Article

      Searching for Home: The Millions Interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil

      Aug 26, 2020

      My mother and father were my first environmental teachers, and watching them hold their heads up high while they experienced racism and still maintained their sense of wonder absolutely informs how I shaped this book. The post Searching for Home: The

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Bookish Types

      Jun 6, 2021

      The Bookish Types
      9 min read

    • Article

      The World The Book Can Build

      Oct 13, 2021

      The World The Book Can Build
      12 min read

    • Article

      Spell Bound

      Oct 6, 2022

      Spell Bound
      7 min read

    • Article

      Vagrant & Vulnerable

      Aug 16, 2017

      Vagrant & Vulnerable
      12 min read

    • Article

      Sabrina Orah Mark Finds Truth in Fairy Tales

      Mar 15, 2023

      "The essay is a search for knowing, while always being in a realm of unknowing." The post Sabrina Orah Mark Finds Truth in Fairy Tales appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Jess Arndt

      Jun 13, 2017

      Maggie Nelson author of nine books, including The Argonauts, published by Graywolf Press in 2015. MANY people, myself included, have been eagerly awaiting a first book from Jess Arndt for some time, and now here is Large Animals, a wicked sliver of a

      4 min read

    • Article

      THE WD INTERVIEW N.K.Jemisin

      Mar 20, 2019

      THE WD INTERVIEW N.K.Jemisin
      8 min read

    • Article

      Jess Arndt

      Jun 14, 2017

      by Catapult. Maggie Nelson author of nine books, including The Argonauts, published by Graywolf Press in 2015. MANY people, myself included, have been eagerly awaiting a first book from Jess Arndt for some time, and now here is Large Animals, a wicke

      4 min read

    • Article

      John Fram

      Jun 10, 2020

      John Fram
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jonathan Escoffery

      Dec 15, 2021

      This year, perhaps more than any other in my adult life, I’ve yearned for narratives that promise big things will happen in the lives of the characters they feature. The post A Year in Reading: Jonathan Escoffery appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Imagination AND YOU

      Oct 5, 2023

      Having built the foundations of our writing approach over the previous several issues, I fully intended this month to begin looking at the nuts and bolts of creative writing – structure, dialogue, description, etc. But as I began to write, something

      6 min read

    • Article

      Then Who Am I? The Millions Interviews Kathleen Hill

      Oct 19, 2017

      It’s sometimes when we’re most at sea, even desperate, that novels speak to us most strongly, as if our lives depend on learning something from them essential to our own survival. The post Then Who Am I? The Millions Interviews Kathleen Hill appeared

      6 min read

    • Article

      The New 2022 Nonfiction

      Aug 17, 2022

      The New 2022 Nonfiction
      13 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Beyond the Words

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Beyond the Words - Scripting Change

      Beyond the Words

      A Scripting Change Project

      Anthology Copyright 2014 Scripting Change

      Copyright of each work belongs to its respective author

      ~~~

      License Notes:

      Thank you for your support of the Scripting Change project! This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. Remember, 100% of the proceeds from every copy sold are donated! Thank you for respecting the hard work of all those involved in this project.

      Foreword:

      Words. Language. Understanding. These things are essential not only to our function in the day-to-day, but also, more importantly, to our quality of life. Yet there are so many people within this country and throughout the world that are deprived of that quality. Words give opportunity, open doors, and create worlds. They help us to connect, to reach through our individual lives and touch the minds and hearts of others.

      When Anya asked me to introduce this year’s Scripting Change project, I’ll admit, it was a bit daunting. Literacy is of paramount significance. It seemed an insurmountable task to truly express the personal investment that I and those involved in this project have in conquering illiteracy.

      This anthology is only possible because writers from all walks of life chose to contribute their words for the cause. Poured into every page is a story, a piece of that writer’s soul offered up to you as a testament to the power of literacy. Not surprisingly, no two of these works are quite the same. Some speak of learning, while others talk of communicating across the cosmos. Still others explore the lifelong impact of shared words.

      Illiteracy impairs so many lives in so many different ways, from children to adults, in areas ranging from reading and communication, to computers and the workplace. Given that it is

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1