ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the creative processes of writers whose lives have been shaped in various ways by a migratory experience; a transitional experience which often requires people to adjust to new personal, geographical, sociopolitical and cultural realities. It discusses the use of creative life writing as a community-based participatory research method which focuses on writers' experience of fictionalising their memories and examining whether this brings about a change and what that change may be. The chapter also discusses the most liberating aspects of the participants' creative life-writing process was the very simple recognition and acceptance that their lives did not fit into a tidy box. It highlights the role of the facilitator to hold the space, and to implement tools which hold it, such as the writing and the group work, thus creating a safe enough space to hold people in their process of personal exploration.
