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...
Category: nonfiction
5 Minute Read/Adversity/Family/Institutions/Literature/Loss/nonfiction/On Memory/Refugees/Society/Survival
Memoir of a DREAMer by Magda X
When collateral damage becomes acceptable, the room dims. The brokenness of the world is no longer the problem of others.
7 Minute Read/Childhood/Family/Girls & Women/Identity/Inspirational/Literature/Love/nonfiction/On Memory
Twenty Six by Samhitha Saiba
I learn that people love having words stolen out of their mouths and fed back to them. I become the world’s most benevolent thief.
10 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Institutions/Justice/LGBTQ/Literature/Memoir/nonfiction/Rape Culture/Sexism/Society
Three Women Walk into a Bar By Annie Krabbenschmidt
As a gay woman, I have acquired a quick bar banter that cuts men loose before they can get my name. In response to their drunken prattling, I cut to the chase. ...
20 Minute Read/Aging/Alzheimer's/Family/Featured/Funny/Grief/Health/Inspirational/Literature/Loss/Love/Memory/Mental Health/nonfiction/On Memory/personal essay
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...
Write Your Healing Memoir
Session Dates: Dec 6, 20, Jan 3, 17, 31, Feb 14 – (7:30 pm evening classes every other Thursday) Throughout the ages, humans have used stories to encode a...
10 Minute Read/2018 Recovery Essay Award Winners/ACEs/Childhood/Family/Health/Loss/Man in The Mirror/Mental Health/nonfiction/On Memory/Regret/writing
How to Write a Healing Story by Author Cameron Shenassa
I have a student who is failing my class. He wants to be writer, but he comes to me and tells me that he can’t write because he is depressed. He is wearing paja...
15 Minute Read/2018 Recovery Essay Award Winners/Family/Grief/Inspirational/Loss/Love/Memoir/nonfiction/On Memory/Recovery/Regret/trauma
Losing My Words by Author Evelyn Krieger
If recovery means you are no longer sick, or even that you are simply functioning again, then perhaps I have recovered.