Thelma Straight
Straight Editing provides high quality editing and proofreading services so that clients may produce polished, purposeful, engaging, and error-free content. In addition to editing and proofreading services, Straight Editing also offers transcription, tutoring, and cooperative authorship services.
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My Mission
I deliver high-quality editorial, transcription, writing, and tutoring services to ensure polished, presentable, and readable written materials for my fiction, non-fiction, academic and business clients.
All You Could See Was the Water: Hurricane Katrina through The Eyes of Children
“All You Could See Was the Water: Hurricane Katrina through The Eyes of Children," captures the personal experiences of eleven children who survived Hurricane Katrina. Some were evacuated; some were in New Orleans when the levees broke; still others were on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina made landfall. Their stories bring to light the emotional and physical costs to those who bore witness to one of the worst disasters in American history.
The Stories My Foremothers
Told Me
“The Stories My Foremothers Told Me,” brings the reader face to face with the experiences of five Catholic Creole women living on the Mississippi-Louisiana Gulf Coast from the days of Jim Crow into the twenty-first century. My goal in writing this book was to gather my foremothers’ recollections into a narrative which represents their points of view and their understanding of the circumstances through which they have lived.
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— Kevin B. Edwards, Author and Educator
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Support the Southern Documentary Fund.
The Southern Documentary Fund (SDF) is an arts nonprofit that cultivates documentary media made in or about the American South. It’s their mission to empower Southern makers to tell stories through Southern eyes. They prioritize underrepresented voices, especially those with long connections to the South. Inspired by a belief that media has the power to change lives, the SDF provides makers with diverse resources, including grants, fiscal sponsorship, mentorship, community awareness, education and training – all to champion Southern documentary and lower barriers to entry for new and emerging makers.