Tag: mental-health
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Writing Trauma in Crime Fiction
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…
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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…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 