How can publishers best support the authors of trauma memoirs?

Kylie Cardell, Christiana Harous, Emma Maguire and Lydia Woodyatt look at the ways publishers can assist writers of difficult personal material as they unpack their pain.

Would you publish the worst thing that ever happened to you?

She was inspired by Bri Lee, who detailed the process of successfully bringing a legal complaint against her abuser in her memoir Eggshell Skull. And by Chanel Miller, whose victim impact statement addressing the fellow student who received a light sentence for sexually assaulting her went viral on Buzzfeed. (Miller’s memoir, Know My Name, was published in 2019.)

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