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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #56: Jamie Marich
"I knew that in writing about spiritual abuse and religious trauma, it couldn’t just be technical and 'memoirish.' I had to write it as a memoir..."
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Sari Botton
The Prompt-O-Matic: #41
A little something to get you writing.
"First Person Singular" in Review
A look back at some essays published in this vertical of Memoir Land...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #55: Christina Myers
"There’s almost nothing better than someone reaching out and saying, 'Me too, I know what you mean, I saw myself in that.'"
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Read these Excellent Essays Instead of Doom-Scrolling...
Plus: Electric Literature's fund drive, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, a Narratively Academy Workshop in reported essays, and more...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #54: Frances Badalamenti
"Instead of expanding into scene from memory, I allowed myself the freedoms that come with fiction-writing..."
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #40
A little something to get you writing.
The Year of the Cat
Elisabeth Donnelly looks back at a relationship with a wily cat during a lonely time in upstate New York.
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #53: Charlotte Shane
"The difficulty these questions point to—discrepancy in experience, discrepancy in comfort with disclosure–can’t be eliminated in life or in art."
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Eleven Personal Narratives to Read this Week...
Plus: My guest-speaking in Paulette Perhach's 'Posing Naked on the Page' workshop 11/13, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, a Narratively Academy Workshop…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #52: Jennifer Lunden
"For twenty years, researching and writing this book became my raison d'être."
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #39
A little something to get you writing.
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