Creative Writing
by Kennedy Rawls
Creative Writing is the practice of bringing words to life figuratively, literally, and spiritually. Historically in this religious-like practice, Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, Screenplays, Novels, and Narratives, etc., the responsibility of a Creative Writer is to use an unfamiliar medium to communicate the familiar [vise versa]. Writers explore different mediums of art (example: words, being, nature) to communicate certain sentiments. Theses forms, senses, patterns, structures, known and unknown of different mediums provide content and context (shoutout to aja monet) for the sentiments that humans know all to well. As writers, how can we say, “I love you, I miss you, I need you, I want to know you…my heart knows you” in one hundred ways you never heard, AND make the reader see, feel, and understand love anew each time like you may have never known what it was in the first place. I commit my heart, soul, and mind to this practice. And commit to keep reaching the places to inhale and then orate.
Kennedy Rawls is an interdisciplinary Writer, Archivist, Educator, and Historian from Nashville, Tennessee. She describes herself and creative practice as both an “inhaler” and “orator”.
She received her B.A at The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in Creative Writing with a minor in Africana Studies and Political Science and her M.Ed in Secondary Education at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Her explores truth within sensuality, history, vulnerability, love, land, and the sacred language of Black Americans and the diaspora. She is currently an educator in Chattanooga, TN.