FEMME Initiative uses books and storytelling as tools for reflection, dialogue, healing, and advocacy. Through personal narratives and community writing, we create space for experiences that are often difficult to express and conversations that are often left unspoken.
The Memoir : SHE IS
In her memoir, SHE IS, Naomi shares her personal journey of surviving sexual abuse, confronting her perpetrator, and rebuilding her life.
The book explores adversity, survival, healing, and the process of making meaning from difficult experiences. Through her story, Naomi transforms lived experience into a message of resilience, reflection, and possibility.
Scriptorium
Our Community Book Project
Scriptorium is a protected writing space where individuals can share stories and experiences that feel meaningful to them, whether shaped by pain, healing, growth, reflection, joy, or personal truth.
Many stories remain unspoken because of fear, judgment, lack of trust, or the belief that they are too small to matter. Scriptorium creates a space where those experiences can be expressed through writing, on the writer’s own terms.
Selected contributions will be thoughtfully curated into a community-authored book, reflecting shared human experiences and the different ways people make meaning from their lives.
Share Your Story
You are invited to submit a short piece of no more than 500 words. You may write about:
- A meaningful experience or moment in your life
- The emotions connected to it
- Something you have learned or come to understand
- Something you wish you could say or are ready to release
- A moment of healing, growth, joy, or reflection
Write only what feels safe to share. There is no pressure to tell everything.
Scriptorium is not therapy, counselling, or diagnosis. It is a space for writing, reflection, and expression.
Timeline
Submissions: 1 August 2026 – 31 July 2027
Curation & Editing: December 2027
Publication: August 2028
How to Participate
- Write your story at your own pace.
- Keep your submission to a maximum of 500 words.
- Submit your story using the secure submission form below.
Share Your Story