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Sophia Kouidou-Giles

“I see you sitting in your kitchen by the hour and writing. Where do you get your ideas?”

By Sophia Kouidou-Giles First Published in The Writers and Readers Magazine, February 13, 2021 Issue When fields appear fallow, we trust...

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...

Memoir writers can be an assembly of refugees that keep away from what they want to avoid recalling...

Writing memoir involves recalling past events in the now, paying special attention to family; decipher life experiences...

In the course of completing my memoir, ultimately in two languages, ten discoveries came to light.

Three award-winning writers discuss the rewards and challenges of depicting culture, landscape, trauma, and family across genres.

A panel of writers discussed the craft of shaping time and the unique relationship between narrator and reader.

But how do you tell a personal story when life doesn’t conform to that shape?

A panel of teachers and published authors shared and illustrated their perspectives about the concept of voice reading, using mostly memoir.

Human behavior studies have much to offer nonfiction writers.

What challenges do authors that work in a second language, English being primary, face in the creative process?