Memoir Magazine

15 Minute Read/ACEs/Childhood/Contests and Prizes/Family/Guns/Inspirational/Literature/Loss/Memoir/nonfiction/On Memory/PTSD/Survival/The 2018 Memoir Magazine #Guns Essay Award Winners

And Nobody Died That Day by Norah Vawter

We are real people. We live in the aftermath of violence. We live with the consequences of too many guns and too few regulations. And the story doesn’t end the ...

5 Minute Read/Childhood/Funny/Literature/nonfiction/On Memory

Above the Canyon by Daniel Coshnear

Far down below were trees and shadows; just beneath our feet red ochre rocks and dust and stubborn patches of thistle, and a surprise, a handmade grave.

20 Minute Read/ACEs/Childhood/Family/Girls & Women/Identity/Literature/Memoir/Mommy Dearest/On Memory/Religion/Survival

Stirred By Michele Gutierrez

My mother took the greatest care of her porcelain Virgin Mary. She was two feet tall, dressed in white from head to toe, and as my mother claimed, cried when no...

15 Minute Read/ACEs/Adversity/Childhood/Escape/Family/Literature/Memoir/On Memory/Survival/trauma

Night Scavengers By Samuel Autman

The house had other guests too. They were invisible in daylight...