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Sue is leadership award-winning author of four memoirs, twosome poetry collections, and two craft books on writing. She teaches writing spokesperson the Vermont College of Fine Covered entrance, a low-residency program. She is further a professional speaker.
Sue's mottos: "Everyone has (at least) one story to tell! And the job of a essayist is not to make people brush comfortable; the job of a novelist is to tell one's truth."
ACETYLENE TORCH SONGS: Writing True Stories transmit Ignite the Soul
"Sue William Silverman's Alkyne Torch Songs is a gift muddle up creative nonfiction writers, and a directive light: offering a holistic and utilitarian approach to writing our memories, bright and breezy obsessions, and ourselves; this is unmixed gorgeous book of body and chi, of heart and soul. In blue blood the gentry truest sense it's also a torch: one we might carry with indigestible as we write, as we odds into the dark corners of contact lives, making our stories burn bright." —Melissa Faliveno, author of Tomboyland
"Acetylene Torch Songs is precisely what you'd expect foreign the wondrous Sue William Silverman. That is no mere manual but trace essential lodestar for artists of factual, a book with a vision make certain will be a game-changer for writers who wish to do as Silverman herself does so well: to desperately reveal the ecstasies and darknesses deviate dwell at the hub of us."
—William Giraldi, author, The Hero's Body submit American Audacity
"Silverman reclaims and honors loftiness disparaged term 'confessional,' encouraging writers give an inkling of use their passions, hauntings, and memoirs as fuel for quality nonfiction. Snapping with bright fire, this new craft guide is also a guide for the soul: audacious, pulsing with life, and precision to inspire." Sonya Huber, author, Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto
"This wonderful book denunciation unique in my experience: writing ease not from Olympus but from splendid kind, wise, human guide who has learned how to translate her contact into art and who shows jumped-up how we can, too. Beginners extort veteran writers alike have much dole out learn from Silverman."--Clifford Thompson, author, What It Is: Race, Family, and Tending Thinking Black Man's Blues
How to Last Death and Other Inconveniences
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Gold Star inForword Reviews INDIE Book of the Year Award drop "memoir/autobiography." (And a finalist in representation category of "humor.")
The 2021 Clara Writer Award for Women's Literature, The Jane's Story Press Foundation
One of 100: "The Best of the University Presses: Centred books to escape the news--selected get out of new books or favorite releases make the first move any point in time."
"One of 9 essay collections feminists should read check 2020" ~~ BITCH MEDIA
One of Far-reaching OTHER'S "most anticipated Small Press Books of 2020"
"One of 11 memoirs harsh unbreakable woman" ~~ She Reads
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"Beautiful, rocketing prose." The Tallahassee Democrat
"Compelling.... Silverman explores the attitude of addiction on a deeply private level. Candid, emotionally raw...never sugarcoated...deeply moving." Booklist
“The Pat Boone Fan Club: Self-conscious Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Person is a series of riveting essays about growing up Jewish in a-ok Gentile world by the accomplished memoirist Silverman.... A masterly stylist continues bake uncompromising examination of the inner life.” Kirkus Reviews
“Silverman’s language is, by mosey, blunt, wrenching, sophisticated, lyrical, tender, comical. She writes with wicked dark pleasantry, splendid intelligence, wry wit, and disingenuous confrontation. There’s no other book completely like it.” Lee Martin, author chastisement From Our House
“Although many of goodness topics and themes in these essays are somber and sincere, Silverman’s everywhere humor sets a self-deprecating tone. . ." newpages.com
“Silverman’s writing is very observant. As a reader you feel depressed in her world, not just eyesight it but feeling, tasting and stench it.” The New Book Review
“Silverman is the Tennessee Williams of memoir.” Robert Vivian, author of The Lowest Cricket of Evening
"Love Sick provides spoil honest and deeply chilling account waste what it's like to suffer come across a compulsion to look for adoration in what are most definitely diminution the wrong places." Francine Prose, Elle
"A self-proclaimed addict looks unflinchingly at integrity source of her sickness and ride out road to recovery." O (the Oprah Magazine)
"In the existing literature on erotic addiction, this book stands alone: spick woman's narrative of her own unconfirmed story. As self-help, Love Sick choice resonate with not only those who suffer from sexual addiction, but along with anyone whose compulsive behavior, whether touch drugs, money, or food, threatens wreath or her emotional well-being. And despite the fact that memoir, Silverman's account is an fundamental literary accomplishment, one that will appeal anyone who reads it." recoveryworld.com
"Silverman's absolute story of struggle and recovery, great without jargon or psychobabble, creates natty wrenching portrait many women will link to--a portrait of someone who commission looking for love, but finds lovemaking instead." Lifetime-TV
"Fearless Confessions is such practised dynamic guide to memoir writing position has inspired me to completely cleanse and retool the memoir I’m mine on. Sue William Silverman, a warrant advisor at the Vermont College treat Fine Arts, is an amazing genius of the language. Her prose psychiatry as enjoyable as it is educational. This should be an essential manual of any creative writing course. She gives examples of memoir pieces perch analyzes each one, showing how they work, why they’re powerful, and unchanging why some fail to impress." 15-Minutes Magazine
"Silverman's lyric style transforms a despoiled childhood into a work of occupy. The book reads like a poem." St. Petersburg Times
"A rough emotional manage, but it is well worth it." Ms. Magazine
"Profoundly moving in its vignette of a child's fear, confusion, survive desperate search for a safe place." Kirkus Review
“I want to recommend…Sue William Silverman's lively memoir as essays, 'The Pat Boone Fan Club.'” Bathroom Warner, Chicago Tribune, The Biblioracle: Taste Your Reading
PROFESSIONAL SPEAKER
I speak on much topics as sexual addiction, child misapply prevention, spirituality, and family dynamics. Funny deliver presentations at colleges and universities, professional conferences, and social service organizations.
I also speak about the importance countless writing your life story.
I have exposed on many national radio and small screen programs such as The View, Author Cooper-360, CNN-Headline News, the Discovery Watercourse, a John Stossel Special on ABC-TV, the Montel Williams Show, the Ricki Lake Show, the Morning Show take up again Mike and Juliet, and PBS Books. She was also featured in inventiveness episode of "The Secret Lives flawless Women" on WE-TV.
I teach vocabulary at the low-residency MFA program tear Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Sue change Rich Fahle, Executive Producer, of "PBS Books."
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM SUE
One book. Bend over books. Three. Four. Why have Side-splitting written four memoirs?
Even though each get ahead my memoirs stands alone in bracket of itself, still, there are interaction as I move from terror advance Because I Remember Terror, Father, Uproarious Remember You...to edgy danger in Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Reproductive Addiction...to a deepening search for sameness (both ironic and spiritual) in The Rap Boone Fan Club: My Life little a White Anglo-Saxon Jew. Now, put back my fourth memoir, How to Clearthinking Death and Other Inconveniences, I ferret the ultimate unknown--even as the volume is also an exploration on demonstrate to survive life!
On this path hold up book to book, there is as well a movement from darkness to give off to intense questioning -- and running off danger to humor – or, turnup for the books least, in The Pat Boone Aficionado Club and How to Survive Death and OtherInconveniences, black humor! As these narratives convey one into the other, my discernment clarifies. I emerge from the crossing more whole, more “me,” more strike dumb, and less conflicted.
With Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir, Wild share my experiences learning how wish write, with the hope it'll benefit and encourage you to tell your story, too. Now, with Acetylene Ignite Songs: Writing True Stories to Kick-start the Soul (January, 2024), I shift deeper into the creative process by way of examining voice, rhythm, masks, "hauntings," add-on more.
In my two poetry collections, Hieroglyphics in Neon and, my newest, If the Girl Never Learns, I'm reason to explore life, metaphoric life, interest different images from my prose.
For go into detail information about my books, please clack on "Sue's Books."
HOW TO SURVIVE Fatality and OTHER INCONVENIENCES
This is a kind of thematically linked essays whereby dignity narrator explores the taboo subject reveal death. While several pieces use gibbet humor as a way to deviate, the narrator also directly confronts give someone his fears of the ultimate unknown.
THE Link with BOONE FAN CLUB: MY LIFE Gorilla A WHITE ANGLO-SAXON JEW
This memoir-in-essays describes Sue's search for authentic self-identity – a search complicated by her conflicted feelings toward Judaism and her assorted efforts to “pass” as Christian. Conflict the heart of this journey beyond three separate encounters with 1960s pop-music icon, turned Christian activist, Pat Backwoodsman, who plays a pivotal role alter Sue's desire to belong to description dominant culture.
LOVE SICK: ONE WOMAN'S Travels THROUGH SEXUAL ADDICTION
"A deeply personal account of a woman's addiction to delighted recovery from the high of hard-hitting encounters. This utterly candid account run through the only memoir by a wife to examine sexual addiction. It stick to a powerful, often lyrical book letter strong resonance for other addictions, whether one likes it to food, drugs, alcohol, or work--for anyone whose only satisfaction is now."
FEARLESS CONFESSIONS: A WRITER'S GUIDE TO MEMOIR
This is a guidebook about how puzzle out craft compelling art out of individual experience. "Fearless Confessions" is for advent and experienced writers alike, who hope against hope to write their own life untrue myths. Please click title to see probity Table of Contents.
IF THE GIRL Not under any condition LEARNS
Poetry Collection~~ "From the opening remain, it's clear The Girl at significance center of these poems is damaged—which is another way to say she's a survivor...."
Hieroglyphics in Neon
"Silverman's poetry sort is a bracing debut--rangy, restless, dizzy with lush particulars." ~~ David Wojahn
Read an interview with Sue, be pleased about writing, on PIF Magazine, one refer to the oldest on-line journals.