What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
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What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
From Imposter Syndrome to Grant-Winning Scholar: How Elisabeth Yang Rewrote Her Academic Life
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From Imposter Syndrome to Grant-Winning Scholar: How Elisabeth Yang Rewrote Her Academic Life
What happens when your academic dream is crushed by failure — and you rebuild it from the inside out? This week on The Write Habit Podcast, I’m joined by historian and Wellcome Trust Fellow Dr Elisabeth M. Yang, whose journey from struggling PhD student to confident scholar will leave you deeply inspired. Elisabeth is a Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, where she studies the inner world of babies in the long 19t...
The Write Habit
What happens when a life spent in international development turns into fiction? In this episode, debut novelist Johanna Kirwan joins me to talk about her stunning book Seven Lives — seven interconnected stories of women navigating love, loss, and purpose across the globe. We dive into: How Johanna transformed decades of field experience into layered, human storiesThe line between autofiction and memoir — and why she chose fictionThe creative freedom that comes with writing later in lifeHer ch...
