'But enough about me...' Australian reader can't seem to get enough of memoirs
Australian sales of memoirs have more than doubled in 20 years. What’s behind our insatiable appetite for them?
Source: theage.com.au
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Screen Australia Awards Story Development Funding
Screen Australia is dispersing A$700,000 ($468,000) to 20 projects for story development funding.
Source: worldscreen.com
Readers are hungry for stories about trauma. But what happens to the authors?
A scan of recent Australian memoirs suggests an appetite for stories about pain. But after telling their story, writers have to sell it – and that can come at a cost<br>
Source: theguardian.com
Kamila Shamsie's 'Best of Friends'
The story begins in the overlapping worlds of two teenage girls in 1988 in Karachi, Pakistan. Maryam’s family is extremely rich while Zahra’s is upper-middle-class and climbing. They’re best friends navigating the return to the school year with the addition of breasts and a range of gendered discomforts. Both are noticing men noticing them. Both are unsure how much they want to test the limits of their personal boundaries. Both are on high alert.
Source: themonthly.com.au
Susan Varga's Hard Joy explores the possibilities and limits of memoir
Historically, memoir has been a genre for older authors, reflecting back on their lives, but in recent years there has been an increase in life writin
Source: parisguardian.com