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Ellena Savage is an Australian author and academic. She is the author of the chapbook Yellow City (The Atlas Review, 2019) and numerous essays, stories, and poems published in literary journals internationally. Ellena is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, including most recently the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship 2019–2021. She lives in Athens, Greece, with her husband, Dominic Amerena.

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Average rating: 3.53 · 3,432 ratings · 558 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding 3.51 avg rating — 3,076 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge by Amy-Jane Beer, Niellah Arboine, Roger Deakin 3.53 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow City 4.64 avg rating — 42 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emerging Writer: an Insider's Guide to Your Writing Journey (Volume 4) by Sam Ryan (Contributor), Andre Dao (Editor), Oslo Davis (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Secrets, Essays on the Writing Life by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor), Sunil Badami (Contributor), Vanessa Berry (Contributor) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meanjin Vol 82, No 4 by Esther Anatolitis (Editor), Thomas Mayo (Contributor), Kate Kruimink (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Brow #25 by Stephanie Van Schilt (Editor), Gillian Terzis (Editor), Ellena Savage (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter 2016 (Overland, #223) by Jacinda Woodhead (Editor), Alison Croggon (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Giovanni Tiso (Contributor) 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Brow (#29) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lifted Brow #28: The Art Issue by Stephanie Van Schilt (Editor), Ellena Savage (Editor), Gillian Terzis (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...and the story as it plays out in my mind is that I became a writer (if that was what it was) when I started to realise that I wasn't loved and that maybe I never would be. I was nineteen and poetry was snaking out of me because I felt badly treated, or I was newly aware that I'd colluded in my self-annihilation and the love I had sought up until then was shit. I became a writer when I learned that I was a person and not just a figure inside another person's libidinal imagination - I am still not entirely that, though, a person; still part of my brain is lobotomised by the fantasy of glory and worthiness in libidinal abjection and I have to somehow live with that.”
― Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

tags: became, blueberries, glory, love, poetry, writer

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“Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living.”
― Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

tags: depression, life, sadness

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“When we say that a narrative is, or is not, someone’s ‘story to tell’, what we unwittingly suggest is that when the story is yours, as in it happened within time as you directly experience it, you are given some power over it. Is this the biggest betrayal of pop psychology via talk therapy? That in language a person can find sufficient tools to erect a life undisturbed by demons? Or the thought, even, that a person can comprehend what it is they have lived through.
- Survivors of all things, always trying to reconstruct the moment they survived through.
- Strange, though, that even as you narrate it, you get to the horror point, and you think, this time, it’ll go differently. But the film reel keeps playing through, all the way, and, whoosh: powerless.”
― Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

tags: memory, storytelling, trauma

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