Episode 6: Zoë Bossiere

On this episode of the QT Nonfiction Podcast, Zoë Bossiere and I discuss topics such as: the formula for a successful flash nonfiction piece, editing an anthology of contemporary creative nonfiction, beginning a memoir with a photo, writing a setting that is alive and immersive, home video as helpful archive, generational differences in queer longing, determining the right time to share drafts with family members, depicting the self at different ages in different genders, the urgency of the childhood perspective, coming out constantly via publishing a book, writing the middle first and going back to write the beginning and ending, and navigating gender norms as a parent.

Writers/Books/Things to Check Out mentioned in this episode: Brevity, Riverteeth’s Beautiful Things, The Art of the Personal Essay by Phillip Lopate, The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates, Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction, Erica Trabold, Wayne State University Press, KB Brookins, The Florida Project, Mac Crane.

Links:

• Zoë's Website
• Purchase Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

Intro/Outro Music by Lin

• Lin's Bandcamp
• Lin's Spotify