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Helen Peppe on Honesty and Memoir: Pigs Can’t Swim

February 28, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Helen Peppe's memoir, Pigs Can't Swim, is a pinnacle of family dysfunction: funny, heart wrenching, stupefying and sometimes infuriating. Her parents' insistence on nonsensical rules, old wive's tales … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: family, Helen Peppe, honesty, memoir

What, Why, How: Faye Rapoport DesPres

February 4, 2016 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Welcome Faye Rapoport DesPres to my What, Why, How Series about creativity! What: For much of my creative writing career I have focused on observing life in this time and place and examining … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: What, Why, How Tagged With: memoir, nonfiction

Memoir Writer Faye Rapoport DesPres

July 14, 2014 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Faye Rapoport DesPres is a writer who was born and raised against a backdrop of loss, and for much of her life, she’s had the sense that she was always holding the carrot of happiness just beyond her … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: Books, Writing Tagged With: BuddhaPuss Ink, memoir, nonfiction

Writing from Experience? Beware

December 15, 2010 By Linda K Sienkiewicz

Do readers always assume that writers are always writing about themselves? It happens in poetry, but I didn't think it did with fiction, until I gave a public reading of an excerpt from my novel where … Continue reading >>

Filed Under: It's Personal, Writing Tagged With: memoir, nonfiction, writing tips

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a children's picture book, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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