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...
Category: Memory
The Understory by Buffy Barfoot
*Featured Artwork by Mali Fischer The word understory was gifted to me by a dear friend, as many good things are. Its meaning can be assumed, because all humans...
Write Your Healing Memoir
Start Dates: FALL CLASSES: October 3 – November 14th, 2019 Thursdays, 7:30 to 9 PM Eastern 15% Off using the code MMU15 at check out! Throughout the ages,...
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Military Veteran’s #MeToo Writing Workshop for Sexual Assault Survivors
Join us and overcome your silence. Become comfortable with writing & sharing painful facts and emotional truths. Find your voice as a writer. Master the mem...
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Burying the Cat by Teresa Sutton
Stories are my past. They bob along a lazy river waiting to be plucked up, cherished, and set back down to drift. But they are images, merely snapshots in free ...
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Debris by Cindy Bradley
After hip surgery, my father’s memory is all over the map. As he recuperates in rehab, he tells us he’s been to Spain, England, Oakland and even Kabul, all in t...
Anonymous Online Writing Workshop for Sexual Assault Survivors
May 20 – July 1 Has your life been altered by the trauma of sexual violence? Could your testimony inspire people to act? Are you ready to begin telling your sto...
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It’s Not Much of a World Without Unicorns by Jillian McKelvey
I think these people mean to say, that my mother with Alzheimer’s, behaves differently from the mother I knew without Alzheimer’s.
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Back to Jackfork Quarry by Stacy Pendergrast
This is the place I remember—with its pine branches, hung like lace canopies. There is the rock slab where they took turns, each first pounding his chest, then ...