Narratives of Recovery and Place

A platform for people in Appalachia and beyond to share, highlight, and document stories of recovery.

Each year, I've shared my story with my students and will continue to do so. It's a sad reality, but many of them personally know someone in active addiction. When I disclose my experience to them, they now know someone in recovery.

For me to truly understand in my heart and know that recovery is real I think is more of a personal recognition of a difference in myself. And just to be surrounded by guys, their eyes open up, the light comes on, and they’re able to come up out of that same gutter that I was in.

If I see one difference in the community I think the biggest difference I see is that we’re talking recovery.

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Movable Featured in Southern Quarterly Journal
21 November 2022
Stefan Schöberlein and Kristen Lillvis recently published a feature on creating the Movable site in The Southern Quarterly.
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Movable/New Ohio Review Recovery Writing Contest Winners Announced
13 June 2022
The Movable Project, a grassroots digital archive of recovery stories, housed at Marshall University, recently announced the winners of the 2022 Recovery Writing Contest, a partnership with the New Ohio Review, a national literary magazine.
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