The Black Memoirs Matter Anthology
Coming soon: The Black Memoirs Matter Anthology. Submission Period Opens January, 2022.
Category: Contests and Prizes
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Our Family Walks by Nick R. Robinson
An Excerpt from The Memoir Prize 2021 Honorable Mention: Our Family Walks by Nick R. Robinson; unpublished manuscript.
The Memoir Prize For Books
The Memoir Prize awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book length works of exceptional merit in the categories of traditional, self-published, and previously u...
2020-2021 Memoir Prize Winners
2021 Grand Prize Winner: Relief by Execution: A Visit to Mauthausen, by Gint Aras. Homebound Publications, Little Bound Books, October 2019. 94 pages. —&...
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Little One by Lisa Hayes-Minney
I rubbed the outside of my own hip, remembering what a kick from a steel-toed boot felt like when I was once curled up in a ball on the ground. I had old injuri...
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The 2019 #MeToo Essay Award Winners
Announcing The 2019 #MeToo Essay Award Winners! The 1st and 2nd Place essays can be read by clicking on the links below.
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The 2019 #METOO Trigger Warning Nonfiction Essay Contest \\ Win $500 + Publication
The #MeToo Nonfiction Essay Contest is back! What’s more, our judge is that champion of #MeToo memoir writers, Tracy Strauss! Deadline for Submissions is April ...
OUR 2019 PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES
Memoir Magazine is proud to announce our first #Pushcart Prize nominations! Congratulations to Michele Gutierrez @michelegutz,@samuelautman, Sara J. Sutler-Cohe...
2018 #Guns And People Runners Up/15 Minute Read/Contests and Prizes/Guns/Literature/nonfiction/On Memory/Society
Arise Heroes! Dulce Bellum Inexpertis! by Seth Tucker
Ninety-one percent of domestic terrorists are white dudes, and they even manage to make up eleven percent of the jihadist terrorists overseas as well (yeah, whi...
2018 #Guns And People Runners Up/3 Minute Read/Contests and Prizes/Family/Grief/Guns/Loss/nonfiction/Regret/The #Guns and People Award Winners
Death and Grief by Patricia Woodell
I had been looking out of the window, just ten feet away. I had been at that spot since they began shooting and I knew I hadn’t moved, turned my head nor blinke...
2018 #Guns And People Runners Up/3 Minute Read/Aging/Contests and Prizes/Guns/Identity/Memoir/On Memory/war/The #Guns and People Award Winners
Boys With Guns by Jacob Paul Patchen
Now, this gun, slung tight around my neck, is heavier than I thought it would be. And it’s loud. Louder than thoughts of home....