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Tue 9 Apr 2019: First-time author Vicki Laveau-Harvie has won the $50,000 Stella Prize for writing by Australian women, announced at a Melbourne ceremony on Tuesday night.

CBC Radio · Posted: Nov 03, 2020 12:23 PM EST | Last Updated: August 23, 2021. Laveau-Harvie spoke with The Current's Matt Galloway about her book, her upbringing, and the experience of writing her story. Here is part of their conversation...

3 August 2019: Writers Vicki Laveau-Harvie, Rick Morton, and Andrew Stafford all show that they are capable of writing family memoirs full of the darkness and suffering, whilst also leaning towards the light-hearted humour that can silver-line all aspects of life.

Writing a good memoir requires you to dive below the surface of what happened to you and when it happened. The simple and straightforward recounting of a period in your life is fine if the only people reading your book are your friends and family. But if you want a stranger to read your memoir, it should touch on deeper issues. In other words: you need a theme.

Here are a few things you can do to dig deep and get to the kernel of what your memoir is really about...

Here are the essential elements that great memoirs have.

What Is a Memoir? Definition, Usage, and Literary Examples.

SARAH LABRIE IS A TV writer, librettist, and memoirist whose new memoir, No One Gets to Fall Apart, is just out from HarperCollins. Listen in and read along as she discuss how to write memoir about family mental illness, and so much more.

The themes explored in this guide are: Family & Trauma; Truth & Perspective; Ageing; and Choice & Agency.

In the memoir The Erratics, the setting plays a vital role in Vicki Laveau-Harvie's storytelling. From the beginning of the novel, Laveau-Harvie uses both the title and prologue to foreground the importance of the Okotoks Erratic (a geographical phenomenon in Alberta, Canada) to establish the role that place and belonging have played in her life.

A personality disorder is a mental health condition where people have a lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems.

This article explains the difference between personality traits and disorder, causes, symptoms diagnosis and more.

Personality disorders are a group of a 10 mental health conditions that involve long-lasting, disruptive patterns of thinking, behavior, mood and relating to others. People with personality disorders often don’t realize their thoughts and behaviors are problematic.

This article aims to provide children of parent with personality disorder information about the disorder and how they can help themselves.

Take a look at this timeline to discover notable events in Canadian women’s history and learn more about the powerful women who created change.

This article discusses the evolution of american family structure beginning pre 20th century; post war and the idyllic 50's.

This article includes a section on changes to gendered roles in Canada in 1960.

Gender roles became more elastic during the world wars, but traditional gender norms were re-established in the 1950s. Since the 1960s, though, gender roles have become more flexible.

A timeline from before 1899 to 2009.

In the 1950s, life got a lot easier for most Canadians, with one exception: the housewife. For them, life was as dreary as ever, and even more complicated. The strong gender roles of the 1940s persisted — and in some ways, were deeper than ever as women were forced out of the factories and back into the home

The recap of Canada's 'Back in time for dinner' episode on the 1950's provides an overview of what the average family was doing in the 50's.