{"id":1690,"date":"2025-01-18T06:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schrijfkracht.nl\/?page_id=1690"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:00:05","slug":"schrijf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.schrijfkracht.nl\/en\/schrijf\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I first started filing stories from Iraq in 2008, I noticed how difficult it was to get people in the Netherlands involved with people there. I became fascinated with narrative journalism and was one of the founders and the director of de Stichting Verhalende Journalistiek<\/a>.<\/p>

Storytelling on assignment<\/strong><\/p>

I still enjoy writing (narrative) stories on assignment. These days I also help media, organizations and cultural institutions develop complex stories and magazines. As an interactive storyteller for tech scale-up Dephion, for example, I created layered short films and animations for their app. I also developed several exhibitions, where text added a layer to the image.<\/p>

Specialties<\/strong><\/p>

After studying Journalism and Psychology and given my travel experience, I specialized in cultural differences and mental resilience. I wrote for (among others)\u00a0Volkskrant<\/a> (economy and foreign affairs),\u00a0Vrij Nederland<\/a>,\u00a0NRC<\/a>,\u00a0Trouw<\/a>, Psychologie Magazine<\/a>\u00a0and the American\u00a0Narratively<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>

Layered storytelling<\/strong><\/p>

We orient ourselves through more and more channels, both off- and online. These days it\u2019s often and-and: a podcast, social media, the newspaper, the news, a blog, a newsletter, a (web) documentary, exhibition, (photo) book and theater performance. How do you tell a story on multiple stages? And how do you add a layer to your story?<\/p>

Projects<\/strong><\/p>

Together with other creators I worked on several exhibitions and cross-media projects, such as:\u00a0Daily life Baghdad<\/a>\u00a0(Iraq; with photographer Marieke van der Velden),\u00a0Country without Orphans<\/a>\u00a0(Rwanda; with filmmaker Anisleidy Mart\u00ednez and photographer Ana\u00efs L\u00f3pez) and\u00a0I want to break free<\/a> (Albania; with photographer Bernadet de Prins). I developed several commissioned magazines, including Talent, Werf&, Erik and Magazine Narrative Journalism. And I wrote two well-received literary non-fiction books: A romantic people<\/a>\u00a0about the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk and\u00a0What follows a mistake<\/a>\u00a0about an Iraqi family whose child was radicalized.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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