Authors at Caversham: Stacey May Fowles on memoirs and motherhood
Stacey May Fowles in conversation with Miranda Newman about memoirs, motherhood and mental health
Stacey May Fowles, author of The Lost Season, will talk with Rough Magic author Miranda Newman about memoir as a form, and how it works to combat social stigma, including the stigma around infertility and postpartum anxiety. Their conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A.
About The Lost Season
After years of struggling with the pain of infertility, Stacey May Fowles had her beautiful daughter. But while motherhood brought with it many joys, it also meant losing so much of what had gotten her through those years of wanting. With her characteristic introspection, Stacey May explores what it means to create life with a traumatized body, the sometimes uncomfortable fit of wearing both motherhood and ambition, and the ways in which our ideas of how a mother moves through the world limit and hurt us—and often sever our connections to one another.
The follow up to Baseball Life Advice, a Globe and Mail and National Post best book, The Lost Season is a raw, powerful exploration of undoing and becoming.
About Stacey May Fowles
Stacey May Fowles is an award-winning journalist, author of six books and editor of four anthologies. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reader’s Digest, Elle Canada, Toronto Life, The Walrus, and many others. Her non-fiction collection, Baseball Life Advice, was a national bestseller, and was selected by the Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Maisonneuve as a best book of the year, and her children's book, The Invitation, received a Canadian Children's Centre best book citation. Fowles lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
About Miranda Newman
Miranda Newman is a bestselling author. Her debut memoir-in-essays, Rough Magic, a collection about living with borderline personality disorder, was published by McClelland & Stewart in April 2024.
Miranda’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Broadview Magazine, The Walrus, and more. She previously published Life as a Lunatic, a newsletter about coping with mental illness.
From 2021 to 2022, she was a Fellow at Yale University’s Program for Recovery and Community Health. She serves as a mentor for writers with lived experience with the support of Yale University and The Writers’ Union of Canada. In addition to her writing experience, Miranda is a trained peer supporter working with organizations like Workman Arts.