Write Your Healing Memoir
September 15 – October 20th, 2022 Thursdays, 7:30 to 9 PM Eastern Throughout the ages, humans have used stories to encode and decode the me...
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Anonymous Online Writing Workshop for Sexual Assault Survivors
This life-altering 6-week workshop is for writers of all levels and is open to all women, men, and non-binary individuals.
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“Put Down Your Pistol and Pick Up a Pen” by Dennis Danziger and John Rodriguez
Such can be the power of a teacher’s words. I was certain that all my Gen Ed students had their own Miss Laughlin who turned them off to the joys of reading and...
Journey By Gail Aldwin
"It's taken years of drafting and redrafting novels, playing around with poetry, structuring short stories, to come to a point where I feel entitled to call mys...
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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 ...
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...
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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...
Craft With Chelsey Clammer: The Best Way to Tell Your Story Is to Get Out of Its Way
Over-explaining can be especially harmful in regards to nonfiction because we essayists are often accused of doing some serious navel-gazing—where we can’t look...