This next passage in my series is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir,…
Category: The Writerly Reader blog
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.
This week an emerging writer whose work I’ve seen develop over the past two to…
A take-away from last week’s sessions had to do with gathering small scenes or sequences of incidents together into a more substantive single scene.
In the most recent of Writing NSW’s First Friday Club talks, hosted by author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, publisher…
A thousand pages of writing were framed by Mantel’s first paragraphs about Cromwell the boy:…
“Lie about everything to anyone who’s a stranger to you.” Reading excerpts of Walter Serner’s…
Do sales say anything meaningful about these books’ impact on our political process or cultural debate?