Reflections on Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, (Auto)Biography, Life-Writing, and the Essay
27 May 2011 at 14:49
Julija Šukys
Children, Domesticity, Dreams, Language and Multilingualism, Mothering, Uncategorized, Writing
My son is now four. Often on the way to daycare, Sebastian tells me about his dreams. Or rather, he tells me stories that he invents as we drive, and calls them dreams perhaps because he isn’t sure how else to name what it is that he’s doing. They involve fantastical journeys down sewer pipes that, [...]
16 May 2011 at 09:35
Julija Šukys
Adoption, Alice Munro, China, CNF Conversations, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Infertility, Memoir, Mothering, Personal Essays, Publishing, Susan Olding, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Writing
Susan Olding, Pathologies: A Life in Essays. Calgary: Freehand Books, 2008. * Susan Olding’s first book, Pathologies: A Life in Essays, won the Creative Nonfiction Collective’s Readers’ Choice Award, and was nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Nonfiction. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have appeared widely in Canada and the United States, and she is [...]
15 May 2011 at 13:20
Julija Šukys
Adoption, Autobiography, China, CNF Conversations, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Editing, Friendship, Infertility, Memoir, Mothering, Personal Essays, Publishing, Susan Olding, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Writers' Workshops, Writing
Susan Olding, Pathologies: A Life in Essays. Calgary: Freehand Books, 2008. * This is Part II of a two-piece interview with author, Susan Olding. Click here to access Part I. Julija Šukys: You describe leaving Maia for the first time– it’s not an easy thing to do, but necessary and desirable for your work. There, [...]
12 May 2011 at 21:23
Julija Šukys
Canada, CanLit, Contests and Prizes, Creative Nonfiction, Journalism, Uncategorized
The notoriously unrewarding business of writing non-fiction books in Canada gained a double dose of glamour and money yesterday with the announcement of the $60,000 Writers’ Trust Hilary Weston Prize. Billed as the richest award for factual writing in Canada, the prize and the autumn gala at which it will be announced are intended to [...]
05 May 2011 at 15:39
Julija Šukys
Calls for Submissions, Creative Nonfiction, Personal Essays, Publishing, Uncategorized, Writing
Global Graffiti is an online journal dedicated to world literature, arts, and culture. Our first three issues have featured creative pieces and interviews with exciting local and international authors, along with edgy scholarly work. We are currently seeking creative work (poetry, stories, essays), critical essays (book reviews, academic articles), literary translations, and artwork centered on [...]
04 May 2011 at 11:19
Julija Šukys
Academia, Creative Nonfiction, Domesticity, Louise DeSalvo, Memoir, Mothering, Personal Essays, Uncategorized, Virginia Woolf, Writing
One of my first Life-blood posts was a short review of Louise DeSalvo’s essay, “A Portrait of the Puttana as a Middle-Aged Woolf Scholar.” I came across that piece in my search for some frank and honest discussion by women about mothering and writing. My son was still very little (around two), and I was [...]
02 May 2011 at 14:18
Julija Šukys
Archives, Beloved Profession, Biography, Creative Nonfiction, Editing, Epistolophilia, Letters, Life-writing, Lithuania, Marketing, Ona Šimaitė, Publicity, Publishing, Uncategorized, Vilnius, Writing
My second book is now a virtual reality at the University of Nebraska Press (never mind that it doesn’t even have a cover image yet! Ha!). I’m expecting the copy edit in a matter of weeks, then proofs, then voilà! If you’re the kind of person who likes to have all her ducks in a [...]
