Do you feel that your writing is assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? Does memoir play a role in your...
Archive for tag: memoir
VIDA Reviews! First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi
The year I turned twenty-nine was one of the best years of my life. In the space of six months, I successfully defended my doctoral...
VIDA Reviews! I Am Yours, by Reema Zaman
I Am Mine “We tend to think deaths and events are all that require grieving, but selves, choices, habits, and relationships we’ve known, they...
VIDA Reviews! In Search of Pure Lust & Conversation with Author Lise Weil
“A lesbian is a memoir.” – Lou Robinson “Lesbian-feminism invites us to be present, to follow the crumbs.” – Julie Enszer1 “We saw ourselves as...
VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant
Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s. Through writing letters to the occupants of rentals she...
Report from the Field: The Permission to Reveal
This July 11 Report from the Field is a post by a Addie Tsai regarding their personal experiences concerning a noted literary figure. Confession 1:...
Hobbling the Leader
It’s rare when the disabled writer is invited to teach in a workshop. According to the VIDA Count, it’s rare when a disabled writer is...
The Authored Self
Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...
The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing
My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....
VIDA Editor Roundtable
Sarah Fawn: Hi everyone, Sarah Fawn Montgomery here. Thank you all for (virtually) sitting down to talk about our editing experiences and processes, and to...
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