Episode 7

Different Approaches to Life Writing

Published on: 24th November, 2021

Ali and Penny come together to discuss life writing this week. They have both used different approaches to life writing and they discuss why they made the choices they did and how they might do it differently in the future. It's also an episode in which Ali reveals she doesn't really like memoirs (even though she just wrote one) and Penny that she hopes her life is going to be boring enough in the future that she never feels compelled to write one (although she's very partial to the essay).

Links

Swimming In Hampstead ladies pond - Daunt Books

Upon This Rock - Essay by John Jeramiah Sullivan

Constellations - Sinead Gleeson

I am I am I am - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magickal Geography - Andy Sharp

My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh

You can find all the books mentioned on the podcast at Bookshop.org

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Not Too Busy To Write
Writing amongst life's many other demands
Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she is too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she has conversations with other writers about writing, publishing and creativity whilst juggling all the demands on them such as motherhood, caring and other paid work.

Penny Wincer is the author of Tender (Hodder, June 2020), a mother of two, a non-fiction writing coach and an Australian and long-term resident of London. She’s currently writing her second narrative non-fiction book, Home Matters (July 2024) and working on her first novel.

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Penny Wincer

Penny Wincer is the author of Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring (Hodder, June 2020) and is a single parent to two kids, one of whom is disabled. She is also a non-fiction book coach and an Australian and long-term resident of London. She’s currently writing her second non-fiction book and working her first novel.