Upcoming books

CURRENT AND FUTURE BOOK PROJECTS FROM VOICE OF WITNESS

We are currently editing two books on Zimbabwe and Burma, to be published Fall 2010. Other projects underway include stories from women in prison, oral histories of men and women from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities post-9/11 and more. Click on the links below to learn about our forthcoming books.

Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives, edited by Peter Orner and Annie Holmes

Nowhere to be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma’s Military Regime, edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West

Voices from 9/11: Narratives from Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asians in the US (official title forthcoming), edited by Alia Malek with consulting support from Wajahat Ali

Women in Prison: Narratives of Incarcerated Lives, edited by Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi

Oral Histories from Congo, (title forthcoming) edited by Joe Bavier

High Rise Stories: Narratives from Chicago Housing Projects, edited by Audrey Petty

International Labor Rights, (title forthcoming) edited by Corinne Goria

Oral Histories from Colombia, (title forthcoming) edited by  Max Schoening and Sibylla Brodzinsky

You can support these projects by making a contribution to Voice of Witness. To find out how, please click here.


Voice of Witness is a nonprofit book series that empowers those most closely affected by contemporary social injustice. Using oral history as a foundation, the series depicts human rights crises around the world through the stories of the men and women who experience them. Voice of Witness was founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, and is the nonprofit division of McSweeney's Books.