Amy V. Borg

Tag: memoir

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  • A Vodka in Holič

    A travel memory from the original Venture. Something you should know about me: I’m pretty unlucky. This is one of the reasons I get travel anxiety, because whenever I step out of my cozy little sphere of comfort, things inevitably go wrong — like the time I ended up in Rome without a place to…

    November 21, 2024
    adventures, creative non-fiction, creative writing, memoir, memories, orbis mundanis, slovakia, travel, travel writing, writing life
  • A Character History

    A Character History

    Being a brief history of your author and the circumstances which led her to take up the pen…

    July 18, 2024
    about me, amwriting, backstory, creative writing, fantasy writing, memoir, memories, writing, writing life
  • Diagnosing the Body

    Diagnosing the Body

    The first time I end up in the mental ward, I swear it’ll be the only time… a short memoir.

    April 1, 2024
    creative writing, memoir, memories, mental health, narrative, publication, short memoir, short story, writing, writing life
  • A Story is a Moment of Change

    A Story is a Moment of Change

    One of the first exercises that we were assigned during my writing studies at UNC Asheville was the “circular story”. In a page or so, we were to write a complete narrative. The caveat, of course, was that the story had to begin and end “in the same place”…

    March 28, 2024
    amwriting, circular story, creative writing, memoir, story structure, writing, writing craft, writing exercises, writing life
  • The Liturgy of the Word

    The Liturgy of the Word

    A flash memoir on loss and religion, this piece was originally published in the print edition of the 2012 edition of Headwaters, UNCA’s creative arts magazine.

    March 21, 2024
    amwriting, creative non-fiction, creative writing, flash memoir, memoir, memories, writing
  • All the Pretty Little Lies

    All the Pretty Little Lies

    The story I tell goes something like this… A short memoir about memory and mental health, awarded Editors’ Choice in CRAFT’s CNF Prize, 2022.

    May 14, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, depression, hospitalization, life writing, memoir, memories, mental health, mental illness, NYU, suicide, trigger warnings, writing
  • Stejjer Imfewħa | Scented Stories

    Stejjer Imfewħa | Scented Stories

    A project commissioned by Friends of the Earth Malta, in conjunction with the Integra Foundation.

    February 20, 2023
    amwriting, collected stories, commissions, creative writing, cultural memoir, herbs and flowers, memoir, memories, prose
  • Prose Poetry & Flash Pieces

    Prose Poetry & Flash Pieces

    My collected shorter works, from flash memoirs to prose poetry, published across the web.

    February 13, 2023
    amwriting, creative writing, flash memoir, herbs and flowers, memoir, memories, poems, prose poetry, short memoir

Amy currently writes from a desk in Nottingham, England. For queries and rights info, please contact her agent, Sara O’Keeffe.

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