awfully hilarious: period pieces by Heather Anne Hendrie Paperback Book

Description: awfully hilarious by Heather Anne Hendrie, Katherine Matthews, Lindsay Harrington The award-winning anthology awfully hilarious series returns with its second instalment, period pieces, featuring that most ubiquitous "time of the month." FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In an intimate, courageous, and transformative collection, 26 girls and women of all ages share poems and stories exploring the ups and downs of menstruation, from first period to post-menopause.The award-winning anthology awfully hilarious series returns with its second installment, period pieces, featuring that most ubiquitous "time of the month." These short pieces of prose and poetry illuminate our collective fascination, trepidation and shame around the biology of periods: from pre-pubescence and monthly cycles, to perimenopause, hot flashes, and menopause.Told in cycles, awfully hilarious: period pieces explores menstruation through feminine (but not always female) archetypal milestones of the maiden, mother, and crone-and the many identities we embody in between.In the Spring sections, the collection focuses on stories of first periods and youth on the cusp, as well as the follicular phase between flow and ovulation. Summer revels in ovulation, fertility (as well as birth control), and pregnancy. Fall represents menstruations luteal phase, when many experience greater pain and distress, and finally, Winter takes readers to the very edge and end, with perimenopause and menopause.Regardless of gender expression or experience, period pieces is for everyone: fervently and courageously sharing a human experience often forced to secrecy and solitude. In this stunning collection, readers can join the chorus: Weve been there. Weve got you.---awfully hilarious is an anthology series of poems, short stories, and essays that tackle social taboos by talking openly about them. With great camaraderie and heart, contributors share the awkward and devastating stories that-with time and experience-become the badges of honour we share to affirm we are never truly alone in this world. Learn more at awfullyhilarious.com. Author Biography This series began as a joke, amongst friends. Heather Hendrie then "caught the tiger by the tail", turning the project into a best-selling, published book that won the Canadian Book Club Award in 2023 for anthologies. A creative radical whos spent years fumbling through it all and figuring it out as she goes (pretty much like the rest of us), Heather has travelled around the world on a shoestring and a whim, and spent waaaaayyy too many hours lying in bed alone (or on the toilet in the bar....) swiping through to the end of the Tinder-verse.Originally from Guelph, Ontario, Heather has lived in Cusco, Costa Rica, California, Colorado, and the Canadian Rockies before landing in her coastal British Columbia home. Shes got at least 13 jobs under her belt, from golf-course beverage cart sales, to in-flight air safety professional, touring film festival host, international bike tour guide and a starring role as Ms. Frizzell look-alike, touring buses through landfills in Calgary, Alberta.What shes learned along the way (stumbling from one disaster to another) could fill a book (and so she has). Heather has also used these life experiences to become a clinical counsellor, and through that work and her humble, intimate writing style, she reaches out a hand to the rest of us, as we all simply Bumble our way through, together.This project wouldnt have happened had two of Heathers best friends not scooped her up after a particularly bad date-to console her, and provide the same support to others, in literary form. Katherine Matthews is a freelance writer, editor, and writing instructor in Columbus, Ohio. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Columbus Monthly for over thirty years, and her creative nonfiction earned a grant award from the Ohio Arts Council. A former managing editor at PageSpring Publishing, Katherine also served as editor-in-chief of Flip the Page, Thurber Houses Teen Literary Journal for ten years. She regularly teaches writing classes for children and adults, as well as producing and performing interactive mysteries for young writers. Lindsey Harrington is a Nova Scotian writer with Newfoundland roots. This year she shortlisted for the Fiddleheads Creative Nonfiction Prize and longlisted for CBCs Nonfiction Prize. Her current projects include a short story collection about breakups, an un-motherhood memoir, and a novel about lonely people, featuring a seagull named Rigby. Review "An open-hearted volume. Reading these stories feels like talking to a family most of us wish we could have." Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, editor of New York Times best-selling My Little Red Book and editor of Our Red Book."These stories matter, to menstruators, and others alike. Im delighted to see voices joyously celebrating what has been shamed and secret for far too long." Sandi MacDonald, Co-founder, IAPMD International Association for Premenstrual Disorders"Period pieces highlights a struggle to embrace the onset of menses, to find time and space to care for ourselves, to obtain supplies and caring health providers. A bright and painful journey into the inner lives of those who menstruate and those who love them." Dr. Ingrid Kristensen, Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Calgary, Alberta, Canada"Period pieces bust out of diaries, bringing heart-wrenching emotions. My hope is that menstrual research and healthcare can also take a step forward along with these brave storytellers." Dr. Meghan Dougan, ND - Naturopathic Doctor, Menstrual & Mental Health Advocate"The stories we dont tell - or the ones we tell only to our dearest friends, either with laughter or with quiet tears - are often the stories the rest of the world needs the most. This book is full of such stories: the intimate, the vulnerable, the funny, the heartbreaking. Tracing the seasons and cycles of womens lives and the transitions - in our bodies, in our lives, in our understanding of ourselves and each other - these stories remind us that the taboo topics are the most important ones. awfully hilarious: period pieces will remind you that you are not alone in this wild roller coaster experience of womanhood." Christina Myers, editor, former journalist, writing instructor, and award-winning writer. "Period Pieces, edited by Heather Hendrie, is a deep dive into the cycles of womanhood, from the first red stain on a young girls panties to the sweat-soaked sheets of menopause. This fearless collection of 26 stories, poems, personal essays, and experimental explorations about "Aunt Flo" reminds us that the female body is universally complicated and beautiful; inconvenient and miraculous; messy and mysterious. Its a bloody good read." Katherine Fawcett, wordsmith&musicmaker Details ISBN173880352X Author Lindsay Harrington Publisher Awfully Hilarious Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781738803521 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-03-08 Imprint Awfully Hilarious Subtitle period pieces Audience General Pages 248 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159830455;

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