Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Writing and Publishing with a Chronic Illness
Academic research thrives under particular conditions. Material resources, time, reliable child care, access to library and archival materials, and the good health to pursue the work in a sustained way. I have all but one of these. My health isn’t terrible, just not great, some days. Today’s one of those days. A week of increasingly…
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Reading Pat Lowther’s Poetry Against the Archive
I’ve spent much of the past several days reading and re-reading The Collected Works of Pat Lowther, edited by Christine Wiesenthal. Lowther died, in 1975, at age 40. Too often, her violent death has been considered with closer attention and care than her work. Part of this is the inevitable sensationalism, and voyeurism, linked to…
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Ellen Godfrey and Rebecca Godfrey: Mothers, Daughters, and Crime Writing
I was intending to write on Alice Munro’s “Vandals” (redux) this morning, but it’s the first teaching day of the term and so my mind has turned, inevitably, to final proofreading of course outlines. At the moment I have a creative writing course, Introduction to Creative Nonfiction, taught entirely online. Contemplating how to make this…
