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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #114: Cara Gormally
"This is not just my story—it is the story of many people who’ve survived sexual assault. It is also the story of many queer people and the abandonment…
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #71
A little something to get you writing.
I Remember That
On using old photos and music to jog our memories for our writing.
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Michael A. Gonzales
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #113: Jen Calleja
"The fear to write about these experiences came from taboo and shame regarding mental illness, poverty and trauma, which makes it even more important to…
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This Week's Stellar Personal Essays, Workshops, and Calls for Submissions...
Workshops from Narratively, Off Assignment, Margaret Juhae Lee, Alexander Chee; and calls for submissions from Blaise Allysen Kearsley, a forthcoming…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #112: Candace Opper
"Be relentless. Be okay with the fact that not everyone will like what you’re doing. Embrace unlikability. Insist that your book needs to be in the…
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Memoir Land Live: Sari chats with Jennifer Pastiloff
A talk about "Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life"
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Sari Botton
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Jennifer Pastiloff
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Star Wars Dad
Searching for clues to my father in the ruins of an old drive-in theater.
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All-American Ruins
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #70
A little something to get you writing.
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A Storybook Childhood
An excerpt of "What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence." PLUS a video interview with Michele Filgate, editor of the…
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Joanna Rakoff
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Sari Botton
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #111: Justin Hocking
"My hope is that mapping my own mistakes and foibles might help us navigate our current cultural and political predicaments."
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Sari Botton
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Personal Essays Galore, PLUS Some Great Workshops and Calls for Submissions...
Including: Workshops from Writing Co-Lab, Alexander Chee, Narratively Academy, and Melissa Petro; and calls for submissions from Blaise Allysen Kearsley…
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