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In our interview, you'll learn how Marcello's journey began as a backpacking writer without a plan before eventually becoming a multi-award-winning author who works on the front lines of major and overlooked conflict zones throughout the world to affect social change.Marcello and I discuss the author's relationship to writing in-depth, including what it means to "make change" in a world divided by walls, and much more:Do you find stories when you travel, or do the stories find you?How much of writing is really about empathy?Is it unprofessional or unethical to take a political stand when telling social and political stories in your writing?The book from which Marcello reads, Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, is the winner of the 2013 City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize and the 2013 Wilfred Eggleston Prize for Nonfiction. It was nominated for the 2013 British Columbia National Award for Nonfiction; the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction; the 2013 Alberta Readers' Choice Award, and named to The Globe and the Mail's List of the Top 100 Books of 2012.A big thanks to Marcello for reading an excerpt from his book for this episode of 'Written, Spoken', and for allowing us to repurpose our interview from August 2016 for the podcast. Please rate our show and leave a review to help others find us. In your review, tell us which authors you would most love to hear on a future episode of the podcast. Thank you for listening!The author's 2012 book, Walls: Travels Along the BarricadesHere's Marcello's latest book, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Life in Contemporary PalestineVisit Marcello's online home at MarcelloDiCintio.comVisit Dave at DaveUrsillo.com and follow him on InstagramSubscribe to Dave's newsletter, Chronicles of a Self-Storied LifeExplore Dave's life coaching, The Unavoidable Life, and writing coaching, Writer's Group of Two, for unparalleled support and guidance in your journeyThanks to Rokkwood Audio for composing our theme song