Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
27 Sep 2010 at 16:40
Julija Šukys
Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, Personal Essays, Writing
18th Annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers $2,500 PRIZE The Writers’ Union of Canada is pleased to announce that submissions are being accepted until November 10, 2010 for the 18TH ANNUAL SHORT PROSE COMPETITION FOR DEVELOPING WRITERS. The winning entry will be the best Canadian work of 2,500 words in the English language, fiction [...]
22 Sep 2010 at 12:33
Julija Šukys
Archives, Beloved Profession, Copyright, Grad School, Life-writing, Lithuania, Ona Šimaitė, Research, Writing
I’ve been working with archival materials for more than a decade now. While writing my dissertation, I sat in archives comparing drafts of novels, tracking authors’ corrections and studying the process of composition and revision. More recently, I’ve been working on diaries and letters, telling the story of a life on the basis of private [...]
A friend recently asked me what creative nonfiction was. I must admit that I find the term a bit clunky. I might prefer “literary nonfiction,” though only just marginally. Both seem a bit affected, and protest too much. In any case, this does seem to be the genre which has chosen me, whether I like [...]
On the second morning of last weekend’s writers’ retreat, I woke up thinking about A.’s missing paragraph. The one that got lost before it was written into the poem she read on Saturday. How had she known it was supposed to be there in the first place, I wondered. A. has a kind of serenity [...]
10 Sep 2010 at 10:18
Julija Šukys
Autobiography, Beloved Profession, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Mothering, Ona Šimaitė, Personal Essays, Publishing, Vilnius, Writing
A while ago I wrote a post on failure and returning to the first-person voice. I told how I’d worked on an essay that got rejected countless times before it found its form and its home. That essay has now appeared in the journal Feminist Formations, in an issue about the body. Called “Pregnant Pause: [...]
