My first memoir, SPLIT, was about how I came to terms with my diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder. How my system of alters and I coped with this reality, learning to live an authentic existence. I only touched briefly there …
Braided Memoir: A Guest Post by Anna Jacobson
Settling on a structure in a longform nonlinear work is something I find tricky. My memoir, How to Knit a Human, which explores the impact of a two-month involuntary hospitalisation on my life, and my memory in particular, uses …
From screenwriting to book writing: A Guest Post by Linda Royal
Before I wrote my first novel, The Star on the Grave, I was an advertising copywriter by profession. But I had always wanted to write something significant. A movie.
In 2008 I decided the time had come to record my …
Unmasking
Once upon a time, I began my writing life the way all writers did in my dinosaur days (the 80s) – as a fiction writer. Or that was what I thought I was. ‘What you’ve written is a diary,’ the …
It was great to wake up to the 3rd last day of 2018 and find my new book, Imperfect, at The Age… Many other interesting books on the list. 2019 will be a good year for reading.…
My favorite literature is always fleshy, embodied, pulsing with blood. I try writing like this myself too. I recently spoke about all this to Writers Victoria. The interview is available here.…