Abstract
Although young women are some of history’s most silent subjects, young female life writers have played an important role in developing the public literary form of contemporary life writing. Young writers such as Koren Zailckas have made their mark on life writing with stories of addiction and mental illness. Zailckas authorises her narrative by gesturing towards a distinctive youthful voice that builds upon the conventions of contemporary memoir more generally. Her narrative voice aims to find an aesthetic for representing girlhood within memoir, to remind the reader of her youthfulness and to offer overt political commentary on youth issues. These aims do not always sit well within the memoir, but her approach reveals something of the cultural position and work of young women’s life narrative in the 2000s.
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