The Writing Life

Sophia Kouidou-Giles

Harvesting Memories With The Muse

“I see you sitting in your kitchen by the hour and writing. Where do you get your ideas?”

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The Writer's Journey Through the Seasons

By Sophia Kouidou-Giles First Published in The Writers and Readers Magazine, February 13, 2021 Issue When fields appear fallow, we trust...

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Carving Out Time to Write

By Sophia Kouidou-Giles For a writer, staying home is not much of a change to the daily routine during the coronavirus pandemic. On most...

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Are Memoirists Psychological Refugees?

Memoir writers can be an assembly of refugees that keep away from what they want to avoid recalling...

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The Drama of Writing Trauma: Authoring Memoir | Το Δράμα της Συγγραφής Μεμουάρ

Writing memoir involves recalling past events in the now, paying special attention to family; decipher life experiences...

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Ten Insights Gained from Writing a Bilingual Memoir

In the course of completing my memoir, ultimately in two languages, ten discoveries came to light.

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Writing the Personal Through Fiction and Nonfiction - #AWP2019

Three award-winning writers discuss the rewards and challenges of depicting culture, landscape, trauma, and family across genres.

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That Ticking Clock: The Handling of Time in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction - #AWP2018

A panel of writers discussed the craft of shaping time and the unique relationship between narrator and reader.

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Looking Outward: Avoiding the Conventional Memoir - #AWP2017

But how do you tell a personal story when life doesn’t conform to that shape?

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In the Classroom: How Human Behavior Studies Aid the Memoirist

Human behavior studies have much to offer nonfiction writers.

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The Stepmother Tongue: Crossing Languages in Creative Non-Fiction #AWP2015

What challenges do authors that work in a second language, English being primary, face in the creative process?