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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #121: Kari Ferrell
"The whole point of the book is to showcase that people can change and deserve second chances."
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Sari Botton
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Your Monday Digest of Essays, Workshops, and Calls for Submissions...
Including workshops from Literary Liberation, Off Assignment, Margaret Juhae Lee, Paulette Perhach; and calls for submissions: essays on Sinéad…
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Memoir Land
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #120: Andrea J. Buchanan
"Part of what I learned about how to write the book was to be curious about its challenges, and, rather than fight them, use them as part of the writing…
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #74
A little something to get you writing.
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Bargaining in the NICU
An excerpt of "Frontier: A memoir and a ghost story."
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Erica Stern
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #119: Christine Kalafus
"My husband has read the entire thing—we are still married—but requested no changes. Which is good because I wouldn’t have made them."
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Sari Botton
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Absorbing Personal Essays + Workshops + Calls for Submissions = Your Weekly Digest
Including workshops from Literary Liberation, Off Assignment, Margaret Juhae Lee, Alexander Chee; and calls for submissions: essays on Sinéad O’Connor…
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Memoir Land
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #118: Lisa Smith
"When I got home from detox, sober, I started waking up at 5am and waiting for my recovery meeting to start at 7:30 before I went to work, so I had…
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #73
A little something to get you writing.
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When Books Become a Container of Possibility for Black Girls
Emma Akpan on how books became both refuge and revelation for a Black girl seeking her place in the world.
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Emma Akpan
The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #117: Maris Kreizman
"I wanted to write about my own political awakening from a personal perspective, and hope that readers will identify with it."
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Sari Botton
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June 2025

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