Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Harvesting Memories With The Muse
“I see you sitting in your kitchen by the hour and writing. Where do you get your ideas?”
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Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Feb 6, 2021
The Writer's Journey Through the Seasons
By Sophia Kouidou-Giles First Published in The Writers and Readers Magazine, February 13, 2021 Issue When fields appear fallow, we trust...
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Dec 6, 2020
Carving Out Time to Write
By Sophia Kouidou-Giles For a writer, staying home is not much of a change to the daily routine during the coronavirus pandemic. On most...
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Aug 18, 2020
Are Memoirists Psychological Refugees?
Memoir writers can be an assembly of refugees that keep away from what they want to avoid recalling...
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Jun 14, 2020
The Drama of Writing Trauma: Authoring Memoir | Το Δράμα της Συγγραφής Μεμουάρ
Writing memoir involves recalling past events in the now, paying special attention to family; decipher life experiences...
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Apr 29, 2020
Ten Insights Gained from Writing a Bilingual Memoir
In the course of completing my memoir, ultimately in two languages, ten discoveries came to light.
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Apr 6, 2019
Writing the Personal Through Fiction and Nonfiction - #AWP2019
Three award-winning writers discuss the rewards and challenges of depicting culture, landscape, trauma, and family across genres.
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Mar 12, 2018
That Ticking Clock: The Handling of Time in Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction - #AWP2018
A panel of writers discussed the craft of shaping time and the unique relationship between narrator and reader.
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Feb 16, 2017
Looking Outward: Avoiding the Conventional Memoir - #AWP2017
But how do you tell a personal story when life doesn’t conform to that shape?
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Nov 30, 2015
In the Classroom: How Human Behavior Studies Aid the Memoirist
Human behavior studies have much to offer nonfiction writers.
Sophia Kouidou-Giles
Apr 11, 2015
The Stepmother Tongue: Crossing Languages in Creative Non-Fiction #AWP2015
What challenges do authors that work in a second language, English being primary, face in the creative process?
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