ICSA Meet the author interview
https://youtu.be/ofZ2eO7ihm8 I am sometimes cautious about who I use the word ‘cult’ around when I talk about my past since I think it can get interpreted to mean ‘one who believes and works towards big ideas’ and that isn’t what I mean at all. I mean the kind of control that feels intimate and taps…
My tattoo story
Red Star Tattoo, the title of my memoir comes from the time I spent as a teenage radical. Some of the founding members inside the secret revolutionary organization I’d joined had home-made red star tattoos. And even after I began to suspect that instead of becoming a revolutionary I’d become a cult member, even after…
Brevity blog – What I learned about writing from dog training
“Here is a thing you should know about me. Sooner or later it will all come back to dogs….” Read about how what I learned in dog training class helped my writing class on the Brevity blog. https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/sit-good-writer/#comments This blog post is based on a Truthful Tuesdays workshop I did a while back. It was…
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Notes on a long list
Middle age is a tricky time to learn about being a good competitor, winning and losing with any kind of grace. As a child I was terrible at all sports and my parents consoled me saying they’d been terrible too. My mother believed competition was a capitalist tool, a way to make people fight against…
Red Star Tattoo wins 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
“As is the case with lives themselves, all memoirs are unique, but this seems especially true of Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary,” said Bruce Gillespie, an award juror and professor in Wilfrid Laurier University’s Digital Media and Journalism program. “She captures the environment of paranoia, violence, and futility in which she grew up…
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Red Star Tattoo nominated for 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Ficton
http://brucegillespie.com/2017/09/finalists-for-2017-edna-staebler-award-for-creative-non-fiction/ http://www.cbc.ca/books/duncan-mccue-rajiv-surendra-sonja-larsen-nominated-for-edna-staebler-award-1.4292391
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