On Life Writing – ‘Spread the Word’

‘Push life in through your eyes and out your fingers. Is that what it means? An act of translation, A becomes – with effort – B, in which A is described. I read, recently, a male writer say that memoir isn’t for everyone, read a tweet saying only certain people should get anywhere close to ‘approximating’ memoir. I find this to be banal, an opinion of little value. Who gets to speak and why? The question, it seems, still needs to be asked twenty years later.’

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You can read the full piece, in celebration of the Life Writing Prize, here.