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While writing a novel containing themes of sexual abuse, an author worked hard to earn and sustain her readers’ trust, which was reciprocated by readers in the form of unexpected, personal disclosures at launch events.
In her new memoir, The Flower Bearers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths unpacks grief and hard-won survival with a poet’s touch, offering a narrative of raw vulnerability, strength, and resolve.
Author Jehanne Dubrow recommends rituals to help protect yourself when writing about trauma.
Jehanne Dubrow offers advice to writers wondering whether they are ready to process traumatic experience on the page.
“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
“I tend to binge-write.” —Myriam Gurba, author of Creep: Accusations and Confessions
“I wanted to write female friendship in a way that felt honest to me.” —Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
“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
“Every book I write is informed by my whole life.” —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of The Freezer Door
“I was surprised by how much agency my characters seemed to have.” —Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread
