The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mental-health

  • Another Form of CNF True Crime: Trauma and Abuse Memoirs

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    Heidi Darroch
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    This isn’t material I would teach as mandatory reading in a creative writing class, and probably also not in a literature course, no matter how well crafted. Teaching fiction that deals with childhood violence has offered me enough instances where undergraduate students, many of whom are still teenagers, react strongly and not always predictably to…

  • Writing Trauma in Crime Fiction

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    Heidi Darroch
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    This is a brief post as I grapple with two very significant texts that inform my thinking about crime and trauma: Erin Wunker’s Notes from a Feminist Killjoy is a book of essays and in these varied pieces Wunker offers moving and critically rigorous hybrid personal/academic writing. It’s a book that I’ve returned to several…

  • Writing and Publishing with a Chronic Illness

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    Heidi Darroch
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    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…