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Personal Essays Galore (Including One by Annie Ernaux!), Workshops, and Calls for Submissions
Workshops from Narratively, Anne Liu Kellor, Margaret Juhae Lee, Paulette Perhach; and calls for submissions: essays on Sinéad O’Connor, infidelity, and…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #122: Meg Stone
"My writing style is what happens when you take memoir, reporting, and 'straight nonfiction' and put them in a blender."
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #75
A little something to get you writing.
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Dreaming in Another Language
The best French I ever spoke was on an island in Greece.
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Julie Metz
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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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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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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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