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Bydlowska’s second novel, ''Possessed'', came out in 2012 with Rare Machines ([[Dundurn Press]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 04, 2024 |title=Dundurn Press |url=https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459748071-possessed |url-status=live |website=dundurn.com}}</ref> and has been described as provocatively embracing Camus and blending Gothic horror elements.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ah-Sen |first=Jean Marc |date=October 14, 2022 |title=Jowita Bydlowska provocatively embraces Camus, blends Gothic horror elements in Possessed |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-jowita-bydlowska-provocatively-embraces-camus-blends-gothic-horror/ |work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> Possessed is “a novel that questions the current dating culture, and what it means to be possessed by someone who does not feel the same way.” <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lebar |first=Carmen |date=October 17, 2022 |title=Book Review: Possessed by Jowita Bydlowska |url=https://www.cloudlakeliterary.ca/blogposts/book-review-possessed-by-jowita-bydlowska |journal=Cloud Lake Literary}}</ref>Possessed was nominated for the [[ReLit Awards|ReLit Award]] in 2023 and was picked as the CBC’s Best Canadian fiction of 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 06, 2022 |title=The best Canadian fiction of 2022 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2022-1.6674493 |url-status=live |work=CBC}}</ref> |
Bydlowska’s second novel, ''Possessed'', came out in 2012 with Rare Machines ([[Dundurn Press]])<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 04, 2024 |title=Dundurn Press |url=https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459748071-possessed |url-status=live |website=dundurn.com}}</ref> and has been described as provocatively embracing Camus and blending Gothic horror elements.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ah-Sen |first=Jean Marc |date=October 14, 2022 |title=Jowita Bydlowska provocatively embraces Camus, blends Gothic horror elements in Possessed |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-jowita-bydlowska-provocatively-embraces-camus-blends-gothic-horror/ |work=The Globe and Mail}}</ref> Possessed is “a novel that questions the current dating culture, and what it means to be possessed by someone who does not feel the same way.” <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lebar |first=Carmen |date=October 17, 2022 |title=Book Review: Possessed by Jowita Bydlowska |url=https://www.cloudlakeliterary.ca/blogposts/book-review-possessed-by-jowita-bydlowska |journal=Cloud Lake Literary}}</ref>Possessed was nominated for the [[ReLit Awards|ReLit Award]] in 2023 and was picked as the CBC’s Best Canadian fiction of 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 06, 2022 |title=The best Canadian fiction of 2022 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-fiction-of-2022-1.6674493 |url-status=live |work=CBC}}</ref> |
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Bydlowska’s third novel, ''Monster'', comes out with [[Anvil press|Anvil Press]] in the fall of 2024 |
Bydlowska’s third novel, ''Monster'', comes out with [[Anvil press|Anvil Press]] in the fall of 2024. |
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Bydlowska is also an avid essayist and has written for a variety of publications – from [[Hazlitt magazine|Hazlitt]] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Jowita Bydlowska |url=https://hazlitt.net/authors/jowita-bydlowska |url-status=live |website=hazlitt.net}}</ref>to [[The Walrus]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bydlowska |first=Jowita |date=November 01, 2017 |title=Am I Complicit in My Own #MeToo? |url=https://thewalrus.ca/am-i-complicit-in-my-own-metoo/ |journal=The Walrus}}</ref> to [[Salon magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bydlowska |first=Jowita |date=May 04, 2024 |title=Salon |url=https://www.salon.com/writer/jowita_bydlowska |website=salon.com}}</ref> |
Bydlowska is also an avid essayist and has written for a variety of publications – from [[Hazlitt magazine|Hazlitt]] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Jowita Bydlowska |url=https://hazlitt.net/authors/jowita-bydlowska |url-status=live |website=hazlitt.net}}</ref>to [[The Walrus]] <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bydlowska |first=Jowita |date=November 01, 2017 |title=Am I Complicit in My Own #MeToo? |url=https://thewalrus.ca/am-i-complicit-in-my-own-metoo/ |journal=The Walrus}}</ref> to [[Salon magazine]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bydlowska |first=Jowita |date=May 04, 2024 |title=Salon |url=https://www.salon.com/writer/jowita_bydlowska |website=salon.com}}</ref> |
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She often illustrates her own work. <ref>{{Cite journal |date=December 2014 |title=Willingly: Photographs — Jowita Bydlowska |url=http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2014/12/10/willingly-photographs-jowita-bydlowska/ |journal=Numero Cinq |volume=5 |issue=12}}</ref> |
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Jowita Bydlowska
Jowita Bydlowska (born September 26 1977 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-Canadian writer and a journalist[1], who has published both works of fiction and nonfiction. She also worked as a ghostwriter[2]. Her writing has been described as unapologetic[3], brave and powerful[4], and frank[5].
Biography
Bydlowska moved to Canada as a teenager without any English[6]. She originally started writing as ways of communicating in the new language[7]. She published her first story at 19[8] during her undergraduate psychology studies at Western University in London, Ontario. She moved to Toronto at 24 years old to earn her Masters at the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) where she now teaches[9]. She published her first book, a memoir, Drunk Mom, to critical acclaim. She has since published three novels, and a number of short stories and essays. Her newest novel, Monster, comes out in September, 2024[10].
Memoir
Drunk Mom was published in 2013 by Doubleday Canada (HarperCollins Australia, 2013 and Penguin US, 2014). It describes Bydlowska’s relapse after giving birth to her son at the age of 31. When it came out, the book was described as pushing at boundaries[11], horrifyingly and beautifully written[12], and “stylistically affecting because it refused embellishment, exposing the trials and tragedies of addiction for what they truly are.”[13] Lena Dunham said, “I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn’t happen to me that often.”[14] Because of its subject matter, Bydlowska’s memoir received a lot of negative attention in the beginning, which she commented on publicly on the 10th anniversary of its publication saying, “It wasn’t my memoir that was revealing something that was wrong with the world. It was the reception that was the most telling.” [15]Drunk Mom has been optioned by Colombian actress and producer Marcela Mar of Ganas Producciones.[16]
Fiction
Bydlowska’s first novel, Guy, was published in 2016 by Buckrider Press (Wolsak and Wynn)[17]. Written in first-person from a male point-of-view, Guy was “a convincing portrait of the modern misogynist in a novel full of hilarious and disturbingly realistic detail".[18] It has been compared to Brett Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.[19]
Bydlowska’s second novel, Possessed, came out in 2012 with Rare Machines (Dundurn Press)[20] and has been described as provocatively embracing Camus and blending Gothic horror elements.[21] Possessed is “a novel that questions the current dating culture, and what it means to be possessed by someone who does not feel the same way.” [22]Possessed was nominated for the ReLit Award in 2023 and was picked as the CBC’s Best Canadian fiction of 2022.[23]
Bydlowska’s third novel, Monster, comes out with Anvil Press in the fall of 2024.
Short Stories
Bydlowska is a prolific short-story writer whose work has been selected to be included in two Best Canadian Stories anthologies (2017[24], 2023 [25] with Biblioasis).
Other Works
Bydlowska’s work has appeared in the anthologies She’s Shameless (Tightrope Books, 2009) [26], Water (MIT Press, 2009)[27], Women in Clothes (Penguin, 2014) [28], Polished (Guernica Press, 2014).[29]
Bydlowska is also an avid essayist and has written for a variety of publications – from Hazlitt [30]to The Walrus [31] to Salon magazine.[32]
She often illustrates her own work. [33]
Journalism
Bydlowska wrote a series of popular columns on mental health for the Toronto Star.[34] She occasionally writes and publishes features, for various publications usually on the topic of mental health.
Interviews
“Putting Yourself Out There,” Jowita Bydlowska: Drunk Mom with Steven Paikin for the Agenda.[35]
“I don’t want to have to apologise for my own desires. For women, there's a huge freedom in owning your own shit.” A conversation with the writer Jowita Bydlowska, Leah McLaren, Juvenescence November, 2022.[36]
Personal life
Bydlowska has a son, Hugo, with the writer and editor, Russell Smith. She has been diagnosed with Bipolar 2.[37] She is sober. She is a passionate advocate for mental health.[38]
- ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (March 3 2021). "Articles by Jowita Bydlowska". Muck Rack. Archived from the original on March 3 2021. Retrieved March 3 2021.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=,|date=, and|archive-date=(help) - ^ Bohl, David (October, 21, 2018). "Testimonials". Jowita Bydlowska. Retrieved October, 21, 2018.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help); Check date values in:|access-date=,|date=, and|archive-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Botha, Danila (09.15.2016). "Interview with Jowita Bydlowska on Writing Fiction, Her Literary Inspirations and Her New Novel, Guy". Open Book.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Boesveld, Sarah (April 26, 2013). ""Drunk Mom" author defends tell-all memoir that recounts her struggle with alcoholism after her son was born". National Post. Retrieved April 26 2013.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=requires|archive-url=(help); Check date values in:|access-date=and|archive-date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Abdou, Angie (04.13.2013
∙). "Drunk Mom, a memoir". Fernie Fix.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); line feed character in|date=at position 11 (help) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (09.05.2012). "Second Tongues". Hazlitt.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (12.06.2007). "Caught between languages". The Globe and Mail.
{{cite news}}: Check|archive-url=value (help); Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (December 8, 2014). "On having another "immigrant story" and why that's not a bad thing". The National Post.
{{cite news}}: Check|archive-url=value (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "School of Journalism". Torontomu.ca. 05.04.2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Anvil Press". anvilpress.com. 05.04.2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Hampson, Sarah (April 25, 2013). "When is telling all too much? Drunk Mom memoir pushes boundaries". The Globe and Mail.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ McN=neely, Jen (May 6, 2013). "An alcoholic's response to "Drunk Mom" by Jowita Bydlowska". She Does the City.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Fowles, Stacey May (October 14, 2016). "Review: In her debut novel, Guy, Jowita Bydlowska enters the mind of a misogynist". The Globe and Mail.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Barnes & Noble". barnesandnoble.com. May 04, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (May 12, 2023). "How would my memoir, Drunk Mom, have been received in the post-#MeToo world?". The Globe and Mail.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Translantic Agency". translantic.com. May 04, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Wolsak & Wynn". bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca. May 04, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The must-read Toronto books of 2016". Toronto Life. December 30, 2016.
- ^ Fowles, Stacey May (October 16, 2016). "Review: In her debut novel, Guy, Jowita Bydlowska enters the mind of a misogynist". The Globe and Mail.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Dundurn Press". dundurn.com. May 04, 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Ah-Sen, Jean Marc (October 14, 2022). "Jowita Bydlowska provocatively embraces Camus, blends Gothic horror elements in Possessed". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Lebar, Carmen (October 17, 2022). "Book Review: Possessed by Jowita Bydlowska". Cloud Lake Literary.
- ^ "The best Canadian fiction of 2022". CBC. December 06, 2022.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Metcalf, John (November 14, 2017). "Best Canadian Short Stories 2017". alllitup.ca.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Manley, Alison (December 5, 2022). "Best Canadian Stories 2023 - edited by Mark Anthony Jarman". The Miramichi Reader.
- ^ Griffith-Greene, Megan; Fowles, Stacey May (May 25, 2009). "She's Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out and fighting back". amazon.ca.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Knechtel, John (August 21, 2009). "Water Alphabet City Magazine 14". mitpress.mit.edu.
- ^ "For Women in Clothes It's Not What You Wear". NPR. April 09, 2014.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Polish Diaspora Anthology". Polish Diaspora Anthology. October 23, 2017.
- ^ "Jowita Bydlowska". hazlitt.net.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (November 01, 2017). "Am I Complicit in My Own #MeToo?". The Walrus.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (May 04, 2024). "Salon". salon.com.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Willingly: Photographs — Jowita Bydlowska". Numero Cinq. 5 (12). December 2014.
- ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (March 13, 2015). "Mental illness is a family illness". Toronto Star.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Jowita Bydlowska: Drunk Mom". "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" https://www.tvo.org/video/jowita-bydlowska-drunk-mom#:~:text=The%20Agenda%20with%20Steve%20Paikin. May 13, 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website=|website=at position 31 (help) - ^ McLaren, Leah (November 30, 2022). "a conversation with the writer Jowita Bydlowska". Juvenescence, https://leahmclaren.substack.com.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (February 27, 2015). "I'm writing this because I don't want to die: Jowita Bydlowska on shame and mental illness". Toronto Star.
- ^ Bydlowska, Jowita (May 14, 2015). "I am neither a victim nor a survivor of mental illness". Toronto Star.