‘It’s exciting to encounter, through a memoir, a life lived in a way completely different to our own. It’s also reassuring to see our own experiences shared and reflected by others.’

“All memoirs have to move from some kind of diary-version, which is really for your own self, to being a public version which acknowledges the universal.” Kate Holden spoke to us on writing memoir.

Kate Holden is the author of In My Skin: A Memoir and The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days, both best-selling non-fiction memoirs published by Text. She is also a longstanding columnist for The Age. Some of her essays and interviews on memoir are also available on her website. What inspired you to become a memoirist? I never intended to […]