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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #43: Katherine May
"I have no interest in writing about what I already know, and instead I write to find out what I think, or to try on a new idea."
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #34
A little something to get you writing.
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Cinema and the City
Watching movies get made in NYC
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Michael A. Gonzales
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #42: Charles Bock
"I tried to render the truth while also paying attention to what a book has to do to be a good reading experience. This in some cases does mean some…
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Sari Botton
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September 2024

Make Time this Week For These Excellent Personal Essays...
Plus, Southern Vermont Writer's Conference scholarships, Electric Literature's Masquerade, Raising Mothers' open submissions, Narratively Academy's…
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #41: Marian Schembari
"I often feel as if I’m on the outside of things. Writing has always been my way to insert myself into the world."
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #33
A little something to get you writing.
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Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces
Visiting national parks to detox from the oppressive whiteness of her MFA program, Minda Honey is reminded the only places to retreat from whiteness are…
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Minda 💛
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #40: Elissa Altman
"As someone who teaches memoir, it’s probably the biggest issue that I see: writers, almost always women, who don’t believe that they have the right to…
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Sari Botton
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Ready, Set, Read...All These Great New Essays
Plus, workshops, open submissions, and more in the announcements section at the bottom...
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #39: Jennifer Case
"I’ve always been one who writes into difficulty, so I did that, allowing each essay to approach a question I had about motherhood from a different…
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Sari Botton
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #32
A little something to get you writing.
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