For the stories we write and the stories we live.
Storymend Creative Co. is a creative media company. We produce books, podcasts, essays, and film, and help other writers and creators produce their own.
Storymend Creative Co. is a creative media company. We produce books, podcasts, essays, and film, and help other writers and creators produce their own.
Original work across print, audio, and screen, made with care and told truthfully.
Books under the Storymend name, beginning with Where the Water Stays Still.
See the debutDocumentary and film, beginning with Black women talking about mental health.
In developmentDevelopmental support for writers and creators bringing their own stories to life.
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Six women. Two family lines.
One inheritance nobody named.
A multi-generational novel about family, faith, mental illness, and the quiet work of breaking generational cycles. Across generations, Where the Water Stays Still explores what happens when one family finally confronts what has been carried in silence — and what it takes to keep that pain from becoming someone else’s inheritance.
Debuting in July 2027 from Storymend Creative Co.
A hidden current runs beneath the surface of my heart, and it’s pulling me under.
From the novel
“Crazy” was never the insult they thought it was.
Honest conversations about life, faith, mental health, relationships, identity, and everything in between — through the lens of Black women.
New episodes every Thursday.
Hosted by Shatara Jewell, PMHNP-BC.
A Storymend Creative Co. podcast.
Shatara Jewell
PMHNP-BC
Shatara Jewell is a novelist, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and U.S. Navy Nurse Corps officer. She is also the founder of Storymend Creative Co., a creative media and publishing company built around storytelling, meaningful conversations, and the stories that shape who we become.
Her work lives at the intersection of mental health and storytelling. After years of working with people through some of the most difficult and complicated parts of their lives, Shatara became increasingly interested in the way we make sense of what happens to us—and what happens when the story we carry about an experience becomes fragmented, unfinished, or difficult to tell.
That curiosity became part of the foundation for Storymend and its idea of narrative repair: exploring how stories can be revisited, understood, and given new meaning without pretending the difficult parts never happened.
Through Storymend, Shatara is creating space for those conversations across publishing, essays, podcasting, and original fiction. Her work explores family, identity, mental health, trauma, faith, healing, and the complicated ways our past continues to show up in our present.
Her debut novel, Where the Water Stays Still, explores intergenerational trauma, family secrets, faith, and healing across generations and will be the first novel published under Storymend Creative Co.
Shatara is also a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.
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