Exploring the healing potential of telling our own stories

Interview with Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Creative Nonfiction/ Oxford Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference ‘Southern Sin’ Contest Prize.

"I think it's a rather exciting time to be working in multiple forms. Knowing you may not be taken seriously can offer a certain kind of freedom."

"She thought of his disappearance as a kind of evaporation; she heard that he had gone away to get clean, then she saw him in the hallway, then he was dead."

In her 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen tells the story of her eighteen-month stay in McLean Hospital, a psychiatric institution. The book later became a movie starring Angelina Jolie, Winona Ryder, Vanessa Redgrave, and Whoopi Goldberg. As always, there are several differences between the book and the movie, but one especially intriguing difference between the two is how the author’s anger is expressed.In

An inquiry on the functions of reflection.

My father did many things, but he did not cheat. Cheating required skills that Pop did not have, like the ability to whisper and make at least one good friend. Pop didn’t have friends, which he believed were things meant for women and children, as were holidays and happiness—and cheating.

"I noticed a swell of voices, looked up to see my father confronting a group of black boys, twelve and thirteen years old. 'Did you throw that rock?' he said, anger rising in his voice"

My boyfriend and I had signed the lease together and packed the last of our boxes when I went out to the stoop to call my parents, clutching a full pack of Camels.