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Black Memoirs Matter. The Anthology
Now Open for Submissions: Black Memoirs Matter. The Anthology.
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The Memoir Prize For Books
Now Open for Submissions! The Memoir Prize awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book length works of exceptional merit in the categories of traditional, self-p...
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An Excerpt from The View From Breast Pocket Mountain by Karen Hill Anton
A memoir in the finest sense of the genre! An easy read, packed with astonishing events that flow into one another like water, The View From Breast Pocket Mount...
Writing About Family Secrets
In this groundbreaking 2-hour online workshop, Deborah J. Cohan draws on her background as a writer, teacher, sociologist, counselor, and group facilitator both...
Text, Power, Telling: A Writing Workshop
Monday, 9/12/2022 Time: 1:00-3:30pm ET Fee:Â $90 Limit 8 Students Text, Power, Telling Workshop This workshop is open to folx who have experienced sexual trauma...
Our Bodies; Our Words Writing Workshop
*Featured artwork by Michel Carluccio Our Bodies, Our Words: A Day of Writing and Storytelling A Full Day Online Class Wednesday, September 7, 2022 Time: 10am-3...
Free Event: Get Discovered in Literary Magazines. A Talk with Memoir Magazine Editor Mary McBeth.
Join our Editor-in-Chief Mary McBeth on Friday, June 17th for a 1-hour talk at The National Association of Memoir Writers. The talk is free for Memoir Magazine ...
Write Your Healing Memoir
September 15Â – October 20th, 2022 Thursdays, 7:30 to 9 PM Eastern Throughout the ages, humans have used stories to encode and decode the me...
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Anonymous Online Writing Workshop for Sexual Assault Survivors
This life-altering 6-week workshop is for writers of all levels and is open to all women, men, and non-binary individuals.
Glimpses of My Father’s Hands by Brent L. Kendrick
Sister knew my father longer—and better. Living closer to my father than I, she had spent more time with him.  Being more blessed than I, Sister had more than e...
A lot You Don’t Know, Hijo by David Perez
Afterward, at a nearby coffee shop, Pops and I munch on grilled cheese sandwiches and drink café con leche. We talk about the different jobs the workers do, how...
Hats and Newspapers by Kathryn Curto
My father called me names, made me cry, and one time even threw my plate of Easter frittata at the wall because he said I was being fresh. But he was the best n...
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Triptych: African Portraits by Joanne Godley
Reconciling the discordance between your perception of how you wished to be accepted and the reality of how you were viewed and treated in West Africa was a pai...
2022 Memoir Book Prize Winners
With over 300 entries this year and a pool that seems to get stronger all the time, it was a tough job to pick just one winner in each category. We have been ex...
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“Put Down Your Pistol and Pick Up a Pen” by Dennis Danziger and John Rodriguez
Such can be the power of a teacher’s words. I was certain that all my Gen Ed students had their own Miss Laughlin who turned them off to the joys of reading and...
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How 90 Day Fiancé Helped Me Tell My Story as the Child of a Mail Order Bride by Katya Suvorova
I don’t have a mom who fell in love how I was able to fall in love. My mother is a survivor in a way most Americans won’t ever understand. I am honored to be th...
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“Iris on My Mind” by Odeta Xheka
Most days, I manage to distract myself from the horror of losing my bearing and blurring the lines in the fog of forgetfulness. I carry the markers for Alzheime...