Crossing the shadow line: collaborative creative writing about grief. Issue 2 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Robertson, Rachel; Kadmos, Helena
• Is Part Of: New writing. Volume 17:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 214
• Page End: 225
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Collaboration -- creative non-fiction -- memoir -- grief -- life writing; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 808.042071
• DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2019.1586955
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1479-0726

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the process and outcome of a collaborative life writing project about the death of a parent. Aiming to discover whether collaborative creative nonfiction writing can broaden the representation of experiences of grief and address some of the ethical challenges of writing about vulnerable others, we draw on the scholarship on memoir writing and collaboration and analyse our own process and challenges against this literature. We also identify some of the benefits of collaboratively writing about a recent and personal grief.