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S03 E08 Margie Orford

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Margie Orford is a writer, academic, activist, and award-winning journalist. She is the author of the acclaimed Clare Hart series of crime novels. Her most recent work is a much-anticipated memoir, Love And Fury.

Margie joins Fiona Snyckers and Gail Schimmel to talk about the narrative choices one makes for memoir rather than fiction, and how second-wave feminism influenced her life at every step.

Margie discusses how she handles sexual violence on the page and how talking about one's own life is different to talking about fictional constructs.

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