The purpose of my honors project was to engage adolescents with the under-taught genre of creative nonfiction while also teaching them the value of representing minority voices(or “counternarratives”) in the world today. I accomplished this by hosting a creative nonfiction writing workshop series for adolescent students in Indianapolis. My curriculum challenged them to write and revise their own personal stories using familiar narrative techniques, as well as new ones, to structure their creative work. These young writers were asked to consider their own experiences and how to share them through the written word, and were encouraged to do so in the voice, language, dialect, and tone that felt most comfortable to them. In the process, we explored how counternarratives can shape a reader’s perspective on real-life issues. In these conversations, I aimed to boost the students’ confidence in both the value of their own stories and in their storytelling capabilities. The students engaged with the material presented and ultimately expressed a desire to independently continue learning about the genre presented.