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MWF_WV Workshop: Shame and Truth in Memoir

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Kristina Olsson

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Award-winning writer Kristina Olsson (Boy, Lost) shares how to navigate and bridle shame and truth when writing about your past.

Kristina Olsson

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For some, writing memoir can be a reckoning exacerbated by foggy memories and painful truths. Award-winning writer Kristina Olsson‘s memoir, Boy, Lost, explores the shame, grief and loss that stalked her family after the kidnapping of her brother. She shares how to navigate and bridle shame and truth when writing about your past.

Bookings available by the Melbourne Writers Festival website. Writers Victoria members qualify for a member discount. Please check your email for the code.

A creative collaboration with Melbourne Writers Festival.

About Kristina Olsson

Kristina Olsson is a journalist and the award-winning author of the novels Shell, In One Skin, and The China Garden, and two works of nonfiction, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir and Kilroy was Here. She lives in Brisbane, Australia.

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