Writing memoir is an intensive process of self-examination, conducted for the most part in solitude. So winning the Affirm Press Mentorship, which included living with two editors for five days, was both exhilarating and terrifying. For weeks leading up to the residency I've been asking the same rhetorical questions: How do you live with the… Continue reading Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Friday morning
Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Thursday morning
Read me on wifi, I have many pictures. Yesterday the words were hard so I took the camera out into the gardens. After much thinking about how the parts combine to tell the whole, I came back inside and kicked many goals.
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Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Wednesday morning
Fuckballs. You know how writing about yourself can be hard work? And how overthinking everything can lead to either tangled knots or brilliant insight? Well, yeah. That just happened.
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Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Tuesday Morning
Last night I wrote on Facebook that the imposter syndrome is strong this time. It's still strong. I recently read that 'interesting article' by Luke Carman about the Australian creative industries. He makes some very big claims, including several aspersions the'Melbourne literati'. In a lecture by the provocateur, I asked the difficult questions. But now… Continue reading Varuna Affirm Press Mentorship – Tuesday Morning
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Grist for the mill
Fresh off the rebound from another visit to the palace of justice. Reeling. Thinking. Grinding. Judgement will be given at the next date. Which is December. We will know if the Trump bomb is going to explode by then. I'll be forty by then. Facebook memories showed me the crime scene this morning, wondered… Continue reading Grist for the mill
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Reblog: Keep making noise
So last night, this happened. At what point have I invited attention here? Or is it the case that I’ve got my head down, keys between my fingers in my pocket, ignoring my boyfriend’s text messages … Source: Keep making noise
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Trauma Responses – the body’s way of telling stories
I've recently been thinking out loud about trauma and find myself using the term 'trauma responses'. It's a shorthand term I've developed over decades and so deserves defining for those not living in my head. It turns out that childhood abuse and trauma does nasty shit to the growing brain. I'm writing to you from just such a brain.… Continue reading Trauma Responses – the body’s way of telling stories
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Self as subject: the peculiar pickle of autobiographical higher degree research
Paper presented at the University of Newcastle Creative Arts Research Symposium, Newcastle, Australia, 9 June, 2016. I do not condone the use of memoir, surveillance, or any other discourse altering substances. Writing a memoir involves taking one’s life and smearing it onto the page. When you craft a memoir, it is inevitably a personal experience… Continue reading Self as subject: the peculiar pickle of autobiographical higher degree research
