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.
15 Minute Read/Adversity/Black Memoirs Matter/Escape/Family/Justice/Literature/nonfiction/On Memory/personal essay/Refugees/Society
Besos, Not Borders by Ana M. Fores Tamayo
She needed to know more about where I began: my past as a refugee child.
Letter to My Husband Who Died Suddenly by Felice Aull
I want to tell you about your death because I feel some guilt about the final events of that night. I have repressed the guilt in order to keep living but I nee...
One Year After the Fire by Kevin Taylor
I’d talked with firefighters about extension — how a fire spreads — all the while constructing, mentally rehearsing and refining an elaborate plan for my own de...
5 Minute Read/Girls & Women/Literature/#MeToo/nonfiction/On Memory/#SAAM/Society/2018 #MeToo Selected Shortlist Essay
Avocado by Sophie Trevitt
I am eight. I am eight, and I am an avocado in a flock of magpies and I want to be a magpie so badly that it makes my fingers curl. I want to know what it feels...
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/10 Minute Read/Adversity/Girls & Women/Identity/LGBTQ/#MeToo/Mental Health/Rape Culture/Religion/#SAAM/Society
Discovering Electricity by Abby Cummings
I’d be lying if I said my interest in forensic psychology wasn’t partially fueled by a need to prove I no longer feared men like him, at least in the beginning,...
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/10 Minute Read/ACEs/childhood sexual abuse/Family/Loss/#MeToo/MeToo/Rape Culture/#SAAM/Society
What Insomnia Told Me by Märtha Custis
Fear silences our voices and daily we convince ourselves that life is fixable, that it gets better and becomes whole again. But the fact is that it doesn’t, at ...
Lies My Mother Told Me / Lies I Told My Mother by Daniel Uncapher
You must go to school. I’m too sick to go to school! I have eyes on the back of my head. I missed the bus! We can’t afford cable. I wasn’t watching TV!
#MeToo: Over It by Shannon LeBlanc
My friend, however, already had a concrete notion what the pronoun "it" did. Rather than calling the rape—the one I had experienced months earlier—by its name, ...
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The Fade By Sara J. Sutler-Cohen
But I only knew the mechanics of sex, not its consequences. Who does at thirteen?
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Seeing Red by Shannon Tsonis
It’s got to be near three in the morning and my head still stirs with all the alcohol I had helped myself to. The alcohol I didn’t buy but paid for. Dearly.
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/10 Minute Read/ACEs/childhood sexual abuse/Girls & Women/Loss/#MeToo/MeToo/On Memory/Rape Culture/#SAAM/Survival
#MeToo: The Child is Beautiful by Jade Gleason
TRIGGER WARNING: This #MeToo essay contains references to child sex trafficking and its effects on the writer. You will cry and, bit by bit, it will break your ...
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Before #MeToo by C. Flanagan Flynn
Soon enough it’s clear he’s hellbent on spreading the rumor he fucked you—or is it fact? You’re a 13-year-old freshman who drank a pint of Southern Comfort, bla...
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/5 Minute Read/Black Memoirs Matter/childhood sexual abuse/Girls & Women/Memoir/#MeToo/MeToo/On Memory/Rape Culture/#SAAM
#MeToo: Birthday Cake by Tori Weston
My mom tells me that I can choose who can come to my party. I can choose who can have cake. Tomorrow when I turn thirteen I will tell her that he can’t come to ...
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/20 Minute Read/Girls & Women/#MeToo/MeToo/On Memory/Rape Culture/#SAAM/Survival/The 2018 Memoir Magazine #MeToo Edition
#MeToo: I Never Said No by Mary Beth O’Connor
I felt terror but not complete surprise. For a long while, part of me had expected to die like this. I recollected the stories my great-grandmother read from th...
2018 #MeToo Runner Up/5 Minute Read/ACEs/childhood sexual abuse/Girls & Women/Memoir/#MeToo/On Memory/The 2018 Memoir Magazine #MeToo Edition
#MeToo: Hold Your Breath And Count To Ten by Andrea Gallagher
He was a lurker, an expert lurker, my grandfather. He lurked in the dark, and during the day he lurked in empty corners. My earliest memory is of him, sitting o...
Recovery Essay Contest
[su_note]A big shout out to everyone who has had the courage to write and submit their recovery story. The Finalists have been selected and will be announced on...
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#MeToo Award 2nd Prize Winner: Rise by Megan Baxter
[su_dropcap style=”flat” size=”4″]T[/su_dropcap]he Julie B Valentine Center is located out on the edge of town near trucking depots and ...
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#MeToo Essay 1st Prize Winner: It Starts with Blood by Emily Finn
It starts with blood. Mine. So red and stickysweet that my jean shorts catch to my chair in band class. This is womanhood spilling over, me tying a sweatshirt a...
#MeToo 2018 Letter from the Editor/Contests and Prizes/#MeToo/MeToo/#SAAM/The 2018 Memoir Magazine #MeToo Edition
The 2018 #MeToo Essay Award Winners
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