Thanks to Lee Kofman for inviting me to contribute to her blog, ‘The Writer Laid…
Author: Jane Messer
Author, Mentor, Manuscript Assessor - The Bold Ink
This is a copy of a review that I wrote for The Conversation recently. Sydney…
One of the things I love about my writing workshops is that all sorts of…
This passage is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living:…
This is my second post for writers on the topic of the first person ‘I’ in creative nonfiction and memoir.
One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.
One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and…
Over my many years of teaching creative writing I’ve written a great deal for students…
As some of you know I’m writing the very last pages of my memoir-biography Raven…
I declare the ‘writer’s garret’ a myth. By which I mean that the image of…