The Aesthetic Memoir: How to Write Well

The Aesthetic Memoir: How to Write Well

I’ve been teaching one of my favourite courses these past weeks – Self-Adaptation, Making the Personal Publishable – which is basically a small reading group (max 10 on Zoom), concerned with set texts of personal essays, which turns into a writing...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Protected by Style

The Aesthetic Memoir: Protected by Style

My debut nonfiction book, Sins of My Father: A Daughter, A Cult, A Wild Unravelling was published a few weeks ago (17th March) and I’ve been taking it easy for a week or so, just to give myself a bit of space and to rest a little. One thing that I’ve been asked...
The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing Personal Essays

The Aesthetic Memoir: Writing Personal Essays

I run a course – an intimate course, I should add, as intimacy is the subject of this blog post – on how we might monetise the long and tedious and emotionally draining process of writing a long form memoir by thinking about publishing some of our chapters as essays....