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Susan Sellers commented on the blog post 'Twelve Great Literary Ladies, Twelve Valuable Lessons for the Writing Life'
Thank you for this inspiring and helpful digest!
I particularly appreciated the advice about learning to say no....
Susan Sellers replied to the discussion 'visualize your perfect writing day' in the group Essay Writing
From Cambridge, in the heart of the English fens, here is my perfect writing day:
Susan
I have thoroughly enjoyed this discussion!
Jill Starishevsky left a comment for Susan Sellers
Hi Susan,
I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when…
Susan Sellers commented on the blog post 'If You Could Give She Writes Superpowers, What Would You Do To Make It Fly?'
I live in Cambridge in the UK so for me any interaction has to be virtual. What attracted me to She Writes is that it's for writers who are already publishing. Most of us have agents and publishers (though of course, this is never set in…
Susan Sellers commented on the blog post 'Anything They Can Do We Can Do Better'
I took part in a BBC radio feature on Virginia Woolf and the ongoing need for women to have a room of our own to write in - you can listen again at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2009_42_thu.shtml
Discussion of the spaces women need to write in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2009_42_thu.shtml at BBC Radio 4 Website Woman's Hour
October 26, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". 80 years ago this month Virginia Woolf published these words in an essay that was to become one of the seminal feminist texts of our age. A Room of One’s Own has shaped the way in which creative achievement by men and women is viewed, and provided a point of reference for generations of female writers. Woolf uses the ‘room’ as a symbol for privacy, leisure time, and financial independence, all of which have been…See More
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- Who I am:
- http://susansellers.wordpress.com/
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- Vanessa and Virginia, Two Ravens (2008) and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009)
Editor, White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics, Hélène Cixous, Acumen and Columbia UP (2008)
Editor with Gill Plain, A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, Cambridge UP (2007)
Translator, Hélène Cixous: La Chambre de Vera, Black Dog (2006)
With Ian Blyth, Live Theory, Continuum (2004)
Editor and translator, The Writing Notebooks of Hélène Cixous, Continuum (2004)
Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Fiction, Palgrave (2001)
Editor with Sue Roe, The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf, Cambridge UP (2000)
Hélène Cixous: Authorship, Autobiography and Love, Polity and Blackwell (1996)
Editor, Instead of Full Stops, The Women’s Press (1996)
Language and Sexual Difference, Macmillan (1995)
Editor and translator, The Hélène Cixous Reader, Routledge (1994)
With Nicole Ward Jouve and Sue Roe, The Semi-Transparent Envelope: Feminism and Fiction, Marion Boyars (1994)
Translator with Sarah Cornell, Hélène Cixous: Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, Columbia UP (1993)
Editor, Feminist Criticism: Theory and Practice, Harvester Wheatsheaf (1991)
Editor, Taking Reality by Surprise, The Women's Press (1991)
Editor, Delighting the Heart: A Notebook by Women Writers, The Women's Press (1988)
Editor and translator: Writing Differences, Open UP and St Martin’s (1988)
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Nonfiction, Lit Crit, Theory
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I supervise Ph. D.s in creative writing at the University of St Andrews
I also run writing workshops
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Yes. I am part of the group Absolute Fiction.
- My professional associations:
- Yes, I am a professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 11:35am on June 6, 2010,
Jill Starishevsky said…
- Hi Susan,
I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.
Thanks in advance.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396
Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com
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