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Your Best Story
“YOUR BEST STORY” is a light and reflective conversational podcast created to encourage open discussion about editing in the Caribbean. It focuses Caribbean writers and editors across all genres and gives a casual yet detailed analysis of the editing practice. Every week we dive into a new story from around the world about what helps to build a strong story. Hear fresh takes on classic writing myths, patterns and habits and learn about common approaches to creating the perfect story, from the mug of a Caribbean literary nerd. Because writing is not formulaic, each discussion will reveal different and varied approaches to the same outcome - Your Best Story.
Your Best Story
S02 E04: Duppy Stories: Protecting Whose Integrity?
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L.A. Wanliss
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Season 2
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Episode 4
“When writing creative non-fiction you often come up with duppy stories”. LA Wanliss speaks to two academic and writers of creative non-fiction, Opal Palmer Adisa and Maziki Thame. The Women are open and vulnerable as they discuss the presence of writer’s guilt and censorship when writing about family and close communities, and question the protection of their integrity in the work.
Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault.