Writing my memoir, I& #39;ve been reading a lot of creative nonfiction in essay form, and am struck by how much of it comes from the US and how little there is here. There& #39;s also a style of narration that draws attention to the writing process itself, a kind of meta narration, coming

out of IOWA CW programme, seen in writers like @carmenmmachado, which joins a discourse of writing being so closely aligned to self-discovery and development which you just don& #39;t see explored here. We have some great memoirists, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Marina Benjamin and Laura

Cummings, to name a few, but the discourse around this art form is disappointingly lacking. When I& #39;m compiling texts for my students, I& #39;m aware that the most interesting essays, theory, and podcasts, in the English Language - are coming from the US. We need more of a platform for

#memoir and #CNF in the UK. It& #39;s an extraordinary literary form that really pushes boundaries - it& #39;s political, and a brilliant outlet for marginalised voices; its keen awareness of the human condition in context of the world we now live gives it an extraordinary universality.

We need more courses and journals promoting this art form @HinterlandNF and @realstoryuk are dedicated solely to it, but we need more! I& #39;d love to discover a podcast, like Between the Covers by @Tin_House It& #39;s been such a brilliant resource for my teaching https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/ ">https://tinhouse.com/podcasts/...