Anna Spargo-Ryan at Emerging Writers Festival 2021 – Writing, Literature and Culture @Deakin

Anna Spargo-Ryan will be delivering a Masterclass in Creative Nonfiction at the Emerging Writers Festival (zooming in) on 22 June 2021.

Anna is the author of The Gulf and The Paper House and a winner of the Horne Prize. Her next book is a blended memoir about life with mental illness, forthcoming from Pan Macmillan. Anna is the current Nonfiction Editor of Island and has also written for the Guardian, ELLE, Meanjin and Good Weekend, among other publications. She has done sessional tutor work and is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Deakin University. Check out further work from Anna at these links:

Website http://annaspargoryan.com/
Twitter @annaspargoryan

MEMOIR will be coming from Pan Macmillan in 2022…read an extract below…

My new therapist thinks it would be helpful to do a Schema questionnaire. This is a type of therapeutic approach that will help us learn which of my brain worms to focus on first. She gives me a pen and a clipboard and several sheets of paper. There are one hundred and ten questions. They offer suggestions like I feel guilty if I make my needs a priority and I do things I don’t want to do in order to avoid disappointing others.