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Amplify your story
The world is full of challenges and opportunities
Samantha’s writing helps individuals and mission-driven organizations hone and amplify their stories while offering opportunities for connection, impact, and action.
About Samantha Facciolo
Samantha Facciolo is a writer, educator, and communications specialist whose reported stories and essays focus on a variety of topics, including education, immigration, the intersection of community and social justice, food and drink, travel, and more. Samantha’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Marie Claire, The Wine Enthusiast, and other publications. She is a 2024 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in Literature, and her literary writing has won Novel Slices Spring 2023 Novel Excerpts Contest and American University’s Louise M. Young Award for Fiction. Her debut novel-in-progress chronicles the experiences of a young widow forging a new life in an island community during the Great Depression.
Samantha’s writing helps individuals and mission-driven organizations hone and amplify their stories while offering opportunities for connection, impact, and action.
daring to hope,
even as the world seeks to tear us apart.
Novel
Claire Bainbridge Bentley’s last hope at happiness is a salvaged shipwreck and a wild dream of building a sailboat. But for a woman attempting to make her own way during the Great Depression, both money and time are in short supply.
Reeling from the deaths of her husband and infant daughter, Claire seeks refuge in Stone Harbor, a barrier island surrounded by scrubland, marshes, and sea. Disillusioned and nearly penniless, she is desperate to shape life on her own terms and not, as convention and her mother dictate, remarry quickly and support a husband she does not love. Through her discovery and rebuilding of a salvaged shipwreck, and supported by relationships with a local fisherman and a migrant family, she begins to understand the value of self-reliance, to dismantle previously held notions of caste and class, and to pursue her last chance at happiness.
Rediscover Your Story
As a lover of words, writing is how Samantha best understands the world around her. Hearing and sharing stories has always sparked her imagination, offering excitement, insight, and connection. She hopes her words will do the same for you.
Nonprofit Communications & Fundraising Specialist
Services
Samantha is a creative and collaborative grant writer and communications specialist who is passionate about using stories to amplify impact and bringing together diverse perspectives for positive social change.
Published Articles
Former President Carter Built My House- And Changed My Life.
Over the past 39 years, Jimmy Carter’s housing initiative has given families in need a place to call home and shone a spotlight on the issue of affordable housing.
Meet the Teens Fighting Book Bans with Banned Book Clubs.
In the face of censorship, students are coming together to exercise their right to read through banned book club gatherings.
How to Prevent School Shootings- 7 Things That Will Make a Difference.
Figuring out how to help prevent school shootings is essential to protecting kids and teachers, and these simple but effective strategies can make a huge impact.
Wineries Across the Country That Support Individuals with Disabilities.
Wineries have always been places of connection. It’s only natural that they would also become partners in supporting positive community change. Three wineries have committed to supporting individuals with disabilities through full-time employment, donations and more.
Life, Interrupted.
I visit and interview children who have been separated from their families while immigrating to the US. None of it makes any sense.
Where Heroes Rise: 4 Remarkable Stories of Kids Helping Seniors.
With the ongoing pandemic, our more vulnerable populations have experienced a particularly difficult time. However, where there is challenge, there are opportunities for people to become heroes. We found four remarkable stories to remind us that connection is always possible — across distance, across ages, and ofen, from unexpected sources.
