Now this is truly exciting! The cover of the anthology of Australian female memoir Rebellious Daughters, which I’m co-editing with the author Maria Katsonis, is finally ready! The book will be out in August but already I can look …
The writer laid bare
Showing-and-hiding Emotions in Memoir: A Guest Post from Josianne Behmoiras
Some memoirs are written from the bottom of a heart that has been burdened with an unresolved story. Such was my memoir, Dora B (reprinted with a new title, My Mother Was a Bag Lady), in which I wrote …
So recently I blogged about writing in cafes, and then an American writer who read that post and who blogs about writers writing in cafes (!) asked to interview me and to have my photo where I’m seen writing in …
Am I a provocateur? I don’t know, but the writer and academic Naomi Stekelenburg who interviewed me for her magazine Give It Mouth seems to think so and I wouldn’t argue, of course… It’s here if you like to read: …
On Writers and Cafes
When internationally renowned Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld was barely nine years old, he escaped a Nazi concentration camp in Romania, surviving by moving from one hiding place to another for the next three years. As an adult, still haunted by …
The Secrets of Travel Memoir Writing: A Guest Post from Walter Mason
Travel has always inspired writing, and the two share a symbiotic relationship. There is something about being away from home which inspires a mania for recording events and impressions. Perhaps it’s the knowledge that this is, in all likelihood, a …