mental illness Archives - Writing Lives

Writing My Second Memoir

Christina Houen2019-06-13T23:19:59+00:00December 6th, 2018|

The memoir of my first marriage and the loss of my children has been a long time gestating, with many revisions. Now, it is sitting in the wings, one step away from publication. I applied for a fellowship at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer's Centre, in the hills [...]

Writing Madness

Christina Houen2019-06-14T04:03:11+00:00February 18th, 2013|

Every now and then a memoir (or a novel) lands on my desk that shakes me out of my familiar mental world, and makes me realise how safe and comfortable my thinking is much of the time. I don't often think about this, except when something happens, [...]