Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
26 Aug 2010 at 22:32
Julija Šukys
Beloved Profession, Epistolophilia, Friendship, Funding, Writer's block
It’s grant season, so I’m writing my yearly emails asking friends and mentors to act as references in various competitions. I’ve been particularly overwhelmed by the encouragement and unqualified support I’ve received on all fronts, even from writer-friends I’ve never met in person and only know through email. All this literary love, as it were, [...]
17 Aug 2010 at 12:22
Julija Šukys
Exile, Journeys, Lithuania, Ona Šukienė, Research, Russia, Siberia, Villages, Writing
I’m home. Two cousins and I spent fourteen days travelling from Lithuania to Siberia’s Tomsk region, in search of the neighbouring villages of Brovka and Bialystok where my grandmother lived in forced exile and worked on a collective farm for seventeen years (for a time she lived in one village, then in the other). We [...]
