Have you heard of The Journal Project yet? Versefest is helping to promote the program to get people to donate unused journals to women in maternity support homes, domestic violence shelters and other such community organizations. Their story.
Becky Halton & Arwen Faulkner are helping this non-profit get new journals, bound notebooks and hardcover scrapbooks to people who are transition in lives and could use somewhere to verbalize what they’re living. “Writing heals. Writing inspired. Writing empowers.”
They also accept inspirational books, chapbooks, CDs or cash. There’s a dropbox at Knox Presbyterian church at Elgin, 120 Lisgar while Versefest is on. After that, check their site for how to find a home for notebooks to people who could put them to good use.
3 dozen were donated over the week by poets and poetry readers & listeners.