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Listen to Jeannine Ouellette read from her essay The Cost during the Ilanot Review’s launch event for the Money issue.
The Writers Bridge - Author Newsletters: Why? How? What Platform?
Our guests, Jeannine Ouellette & Stephen Knezovich, were thoughtful and amazing, with great ideas for authors--fiction and nonfiction--to write meaningful newsletters and build an engaged audience, ready to hear your words.
Famous Writing Routines
“I always want to be engaging with the unknown.”
Making Art from Your Life
This week Brooke and Grant are in thoughtful, deep conversation with Jeannine Ouellette about craft—ranging from exteriority, tense, point of view, aboutness, and time control. This episode touches upon observing others’ work to inform your own—and we encourage all listeners to read Jeannine’s recent post that’s mentioned a few times in this week’s show: “Eleven Urgent and Possibly Helpful Things I’ve Learned From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts.”
The Transformation of Trauma
Jeannine Ouellette joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about the power of literary constraints, why the how can be just as important as the what, writing about childhood sexual abuse, believing in your project when publishing gatekeepers don’t seem to, and why sad stories can make us happy. Listen here!
In this event, seven-time author Laura Davis (The Courage to Heal and The Burning Light of Two Stars) and Jeannine Ouellette (The Part That Burns) share their decades of experience writing about family. Both authors have outed abusers on the page, navigated subsequent estrangements and reconciliations, and written long-running columns about their children (while sometimes paying a price).
Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Episode 282
Jeannine Ouellette on Wanting to be Devastated, Self-Scrutiny, and Her Memoir ‘The Part That Burns.’ Read more and listen to the podcast with Brendan O’Meara here!
Gina Frangello, Sejal Shah, Jeannine Ouellette, and Megan Stielstra discuss writing through the body for 1455's 3rd Annual Summer Festival.
Jeannine Ouellette and Keisha Bush
SubText Books presents a virtual event with Jeannine Ouellette and Keisha Bush to celebrate Ouellette's The Part That Burns (Split Lip Press) and Bush's No Heaven for Good Boys(Random House). View recording here.
Jeannine Ouellette and Sue William Silverman
A Room of One's Own presents a virtual conversation between Jeannine Ouellette Sue William Silverman. View recording here.
Jeannine Ouellette reads from and discusses her memoir THE PART THAT BURNS with Jennifer Pastiloff, moderated by Amy Eaton.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers hosted Jeannine Ouellette for a reading and discussion with Gina Frangello (Blow Your House Down and A Life in Men) and Lilly Dancyger (Negative Space and Burn It Down), moderated by The Adroit Journal editor Heidi Seaborn.
Books are Magic hosted the Red Ink series for a discussion on the theme of Desire featuring Katherine Angel, Jo Ann Beard, Dantiel W. Moniz, Jeannine Ouellette, and moderated by Michele Filgate. Access transcript here.
Jeannine Ouellette reads from her memoir, The Part That Burns (Split Lip Press) and offers a wonderful example and explanation of literary constraints and the braided essay.
We’re joined by Jeannine Ouellette to talk about her acclaimed new memoir, The Part That Burns. Jeannine will be in conversation with Amy Freeman, essayist, fiction writer, and Development Director at The Writer’s Center.
1455’s Founding Director Sean Murphy and the author will discuss the process of writing this book, which Joyce Carol Oates has called “simply beautiful…precisely imagined, poetically structured, compelling, and vivid,” and the contemporary literary scene, followed by a Q&A.
Virtual Launch: The Part That Burns
Jeannine Ouellette in conversation with Maggie Smith, Michele Filgate, moderated by Shelia O'Connor with music by Brianna Lane. View the recording here.