Archive - Memoir Land

A Fresh Batch of Absorbing Personal Narratives

Plus: Electric Literature's fund drive, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, and news about next week's crowd-sourced edition of Memoir Monday while I…

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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #59: Nicole Louie

"With Others Like Me, my goal was to make the lives of women without children visible."

Dec 6 •

The Prompt-O-Matic: #43

A little something to get you writing.

Dec 5

The flicker of hope that kept me alive, courtesy of Morrisey.

Dec 4 •

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #58: Allegra Huston

"When I first decided to write the book and told my sister Anjelica, all she said was, 'Be kind.' I was—and honest too."

Dec 3 •

Your Weekly Personal Essay Fix...

Plus: Electric Literature's fund drive, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, and more...

Dec 2 •

November 2024

The 'Memoir Land Questionnaire'-Takers on NPR's and NYT's Notables Lists

With congratulations to Leslie Jamison, Sarah LaBrie, Lucas Mann, Lilly Dancyger, Lucy Sante, and Annabelle Tometich.

Nov 29 •

The Prompt-O-Matic: #42

A little something to get you writing.

Nov 28

Thanksgiving: A holiday about family and food and connection…except when it isn’t.

Nov 27 •

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #57: Richard Scott Larson

"The most difficult thing about writing this book was learning how to apply what I’d studied in fiction workshops to a project centered on my own…

Nov 26 •

A Fresh Batch of Stellar Personal Essays...

Plus: Electric Literature's fund drive, Narratively's 2024 Memoir Prize, and more...

Nov 25 •

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..."

Nov 22 •

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