Welcome to the Women Writing podcast. In this episode, I’m chatting with Caroline Topperman about her new memoir, writing family stories, hybrid publishing, and advice for writers. You can read Caroline’s Women Writing feature here.
“I had an editor say to me years ago, ‘Is it perfect? No. Is it good enough? Yes.”
Caroline Topperman is a European-Canadian writer, entrepreneur, and world traveler. Born in Sweden, raised in Canada with a recent stint of living in Poland, she holds a BFA in Screenwriting. She is a co-founder of Mountain Ash Press and KW Writers Alliance. Her book, Tell Me What You See, serves as a toolkit for her writing workshops. She has written articles for Huffington Post Canada, Jane Friedman’s blog was the Beauty Editor for British MODE Magazine, and served as managing editor for NonBinary Review. Her hybrid memoir, Your Roots Cast a Shadow: one family’s search across history for belonging with HCI Books, explores explosive intergenerational histories that link war zones and foreign shores with questions of identity and belonging. Her next book, The Road to Tang-e Gharu: family stories, folk tales, and the limits of memory, integrates Afghan folktales and family memories with the story of one of the greatest roads ever built.
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