On Trauma and Knowing When You’re Ready to Write
Jehanne Dubrow offers advice to writers wondering whether they are ready to process traumatic experience on the page.
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Ten Questions for Jay Baron Nicorvo
“Now, though, years have passed, and I do have more peace about my past and my process. From afar, I can finally see what I was doing, and why.” —Jay Baron Nicorvo, author of Best Copy Available: A True Crime Memoir
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Ten Questions for Myriam Gurba
“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions
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Ten Questions for Christine Kandic Torres
“I wanted to write female friendship in a way that felt honest to me.” —Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
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Ten Questions for Donika Kelly
“I need the volume of more than one trusted reader to hear suggestions over my own investment in being right.” —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations
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Ten Questions for Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“Every book I write is informed by my whole life.” —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer Door
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Ten Questions for Francesca Ekwuyasi
“I was surprised by how much agency my characters seemed to have.” —Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread
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Why We Write: The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief
Writing through trauma isn’t always a healing experience. A poet and novelist investigates the complexities and challenges of writing with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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