Scribe signs Jessica Friedmann

Scribe is very happy to announce that we have acquired a collection of essays from debut author Jessica Friedmann: ‘Things That Helped’.

Jessica is a writer and editor currently living in Canberra with her husband and young son. After graduating with an Honours Degree in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne in 2010, she spent time at independent titles Going Down Swinging and Dumbo Feather, while continuing to publish fiction and feature writing.

The essays in ‘Things That Helped’ touch on Jessica's experience of severe postpartum depression as a new mother. The book also looks at issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness. The actual things that helped Jessica are for the most part objects, and they become talismans as she navigates her way out of illness.

The writing is exquisite, and although her experience is sometimes confronting, the overwhelming sensation one has while reading the essays is that of transformation — of a dark experience that becomes almost luminous in its retelling.

’Things That Helped’ will be published in early 2017.

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Scribe signs Jessica Friedmann

Multi-time winner of the Australian Small Publisher of the Year Award