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Karen Malpede’s new release Last Radiance: Radical Lives, Bright Deaths is many things. It’s a theatre memoir in the cultural avant-garde of downtown New York, a grief essay, a polemic about cancer treatment and a love story – of Karen and her actor/producer husband George Bartenieff. But when she first began writing it, she thought…


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We always want to grab the reader at the start of a story. But are we grabbing them with the right things? Especially if we’re using misdirection. When does misdirection (which is good) become misrepresentation (which isn’t good)? I’m thinking about this because I started watching the Netflix series Untamed, and it committed that very…


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For all of us with creative work on the go, Christmas and the end-of-year holidays might mean one of two things: 1 Goody! Loads of time to work properly on my book. 2 Gah! Too much to do, too many people to see, no time to work on my book. By January my book and…


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When a Facebook post begins ‘I first met…’ and has a picture of someone you knew closely for many years, you feel, with a chill, you already understand the news it’s bringing. The death has been announced of Porter Anderson, whose name you might know if you’re in certain parts of the publishing community.  I first…


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I love the genre of memoir. It might be a straightforward A to B in a person’s life; or a braid of diverse strands that makes meaning, sense and a unique narrative journey. An example of the latter is Jocelyn Jane Cox’s new release Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin…


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