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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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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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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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So you’ve finished your novel. Press Pause.

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on April 7, 2022April 8, 2022

This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…

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SUMMER 21 WRITING WORKSHOP

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on October 21, 2021November 1, 2021

This is an intensive set of workshops to encourage a regular writing practice, with each participant submitting 500-2000 words (or equivalent for poetry) fortnightly, for feedback and discussion.

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Get out of novel iso

  • by Jane Messer
  • Posted on July 12, 2021

The novel manuscript’s needs are great, and constant. Novels are anti-social creatures that don’t want…

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