Jenn Ashworth on writing fiction & non-fiction
The Writing Life
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Writing Memoirs Made While Falling
In 2010, I gave birth to my son in a episode I like to refer to as the great disemboweling. It was very traumatic and afterwards I was very unwell for a period of several years. The trauma around the birth and the postnatal mental illness that I was suffering also brought up as it does for many women,. A lot of stuff that I had left undigested, let's say about my childhood. And from that came two questions: what's wrong with me? Why can't this thing I think I can do?"
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