About this episode

Winnie M Li discusses her writing journey, trauma, and her new novel 'What We Left Unsaid'.

Winnie M Li is an American author and activist who has written for travel guidebooks, produced independent feature films, programmed for film festivals, and developed eco-tourism projects. Her first novel Dark Chapter was nominated for an Edgar Award and translated into ten languages, followed by the critically acclaimed Complicit. A survivor and advocate against gendered violence, she is an assistant professor of creative wriiting at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Her new novel is What We Left Unsaid , just out from Simon & Schuster. Listen in as she and I discuss what are we asking a writer to do when we ask her to write into a trauma, and so much more. The QWERTY podcast is brought to you by the book The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life . Read it, and begin your own journey to writing what you know. To learn more, join The Memoir Project free newsletter list and keep up to date on all our free webinars, instructive posts and online classes in how to write memoir , as well as our talented, available memoir editors and memoir coaches, podcast guests and more.

People in this episode

Guest: Winnie M Li

Topics covered

• writing
• trauma
• gendered violence
• creative writing
• memoir

Keywords

• American author
• activist
• Dark Chapter
• Complicit
• University of Birmingham

Mentioned in this episode

Products: What We Left Unsaid, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

Books & works: Dark Chapter, an Edgar Award, Complicit, What We Left Unsaid, The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life

Places: UK

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