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Eros, beauty and friction: what happened when Susan Johnson took her 85-year-old mother to live on a Greek island

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

This is a copy of a review that I wrote for The Conversation recently. Sydney…

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Speech and silence in narrative

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on April 14, 2023April 14, 2023

One of the things I love about my writing workshops is that all sorts of…

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Episode 3—Position of the ‘I’ from observer to centre stage  

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 18, 2023

This next passage in my series is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir,…

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Episode 2: The ‘I’ and other voices

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 11, 2023January 11, 2023

This is my second post for writers on the topic of the first person ‘I’ in creative nonfiction and memoir.

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Episode 1: the presence of the ‘I’ in memoir and creative nonfiction

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on January 5, 2023

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.  

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The earliest humans swam 100,000 years ago, but swimming remains a privileged pastime

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on December 30, 2022

One of my life’s aims is to swim in as many lakes, rivers, pools and…

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Dramatisation & reflection

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on December 15, 2022December 16, 2022

Over my many years of teaching creative writing I’ve written a great deal for students…

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New work, in Life Writing

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on December 12, 2022December 17, 2022

As some of you know I’m writing the very last pages of my memoir-biography Raven…

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The myth of the writer’s garret

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on December 8, 2022May 8, 2023

I declare the ‘writer’s garret’ a myth. By which I mean that the image of…

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Coming up in 2023: workshops, mentoring, books

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on December 1, 2022December 2, 2022

Here’s what I’ve got planned for 2023, along with some reflections on the year that’s…

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