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Upcoming episode — June 3, 2025
The Chills At Will podcast is a celebration of the visceral beauty of literature. This beauty is examined through close reads of phrases and lines of passages that thrills the readers…
AWP 2025
Panel: Abroad as an Escape: International Exchange & Trauma-Informed Writing
Saturday 29th March, 2025
1:45pm to 3pm PDT
Location: Room 503, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Session Code: S212
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO GUARDIAN
Explosive memoir on legacy of mothers who abandon daughters
Feature in the oldest and biggest newspaper in Trinidad & Tobago. ‘My memoir reveals my dawning realisation of trauma across generations.’
FINALIST
Finalist in Restless Books Prize For New Immigrant Writing 2023 — Excerpt
Can abandonment be good luck if a mother turns out to be even worse? Narrated in poetic prose and the rhythmic patois of Trinidad and Tobago, How to be UnMothered reflects upon the multifaceted cruelties of a mother who subjects her daughters to neglect.
PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY
Indie Presses Make Welcoming Homes for Immigrant Writing
…and 2023 finalist Camille U. Adams, who hails from Trinidad, signed with Restless Books for her memoir How to Be UnMothered.
PODCAST
Emerging Writers Podcast, ep. 7: Camille U. Adams
A conversation with Joy Notoma and others on discovery in creative nonfiction, self-care while writing memoir, home, and writing without self-editing the ugly truth.
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Ep. 81 Camille U. Adams | The memoir, Caribbean lit, and uncovering the past | Arts Calling Podcast
A conversation with Jaime Alejandro on my writing of How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir, my process, the craft of memoir, Caribbean literature, and inspiration.