Little Fiction | Big Truths – “Millions”
My piece “Millions” is now available in the amazing (and free!) flash non-fiction issue of Little Fiction | Big Truth. Packed with little stories about big moments, it’s a […]
My tattoo story
Red Star Tattoo, the title of my memoir comes from the time I spent as a teenage radical. Some of the founding members inside the secret revolutionary organization I’d joined […]
Teaching + coaching
I’m a creative late bloomer who loves helping people find their voice. I’ve taught workshops for SFU Writer’s Studio, Royal City Literary Arts Society and other organizations. I host Truthful […]
Brevity blog – What I learned about writing from dog training
“Here is a thing you should know about me. Sooner or later it will all come back to dogs….” Read about how what I learned in dog training class helped […]
Truthful Tuesdays
Join me for these free workshops where we explore the revolutionary act of telling your own stories. In each session I explore a topic in creative non-fiction. Workshops are one […]
I write about….
being a late bloomer books cults dogs family fashion flash fiction girlhood hippies kids memoir memory my strange childhood places I've worked politics reading Red Star Tattoo relationships revolutionaries secrets sisters talking to strangers tattoo the Downtown Eastside Vancouver work writing
Writing the Sound Retreat 2019
“I loved the feeling of being “unplugged” and the dedicated time and space just for writing. I also felt like I was in excellent hands with the writing advice you […]
Notes on a long list
Middle age is a tricky time to learn about being a good competitor, winning and losing with any kind of grace. As a child I was terrible at all sports […]
2018 subterrain lush triumphant nonfiction winner – “Desire eclipses memory”
Desire Eclipse Memory is about a time in my mid-twenties when i was working at one of Montreal’s more notorious restaurants and teetering on the edge of addiction and crisis. […]
Red Star Tattoo wins 2017 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
“As is the case with lives themselves, all memoirs are unique, but this seems especially true of Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary,” said Bruce Gillespie, an […]