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The Prompt-O-Matic: #6

You Talk Real Good

Considering the Pull Quote

The Last Memoir Monday Roundup of the Year...

Going for Broke

Reflections of Dad

A Baker's Dozen of Great Personal Essays...

The Prompt-O-Matic: #5

Call Me Mom Again

Lucky 13. (That's How Many Essays Are Featured in Today's Roundup.)

Ten Great Personal Essays to Ease You into the Post-Holiday Week

Cleaning Instructions

Holidays Can Be Hard. Here Are 15 Great Essays to Take You Through this Week...

The Prompt-O-Matic: #4

Hot Off the Presses: This Week's Roundup of a Dozen Great Personal Essays

"A Writer-Owned Experimental Cooperative School"

Body Memory

A Dozen Stellar Essays, Part II of an Interview, and a Few Announcements...

On Keeping (a Giant Chest Full of) Journals

Roast Duck Soup for the Chinese-American Daughter’s Soul

Eleven Personal Essays, One Interview, and Five Announcements...

My Recent Bookstore Conversation and Reading with Abigail Thomas

Minda Honey Wants a Millennial "Waiting to Exhale"

Time for Your Weekly Dose of Personal Essays...

The Prompt-O-Matic: #3

The Story of My Father's Hands

A Dozen Stellar Personal Essays, and More

Publishing Books as a Collective, via Crowd Funding

Shelter Among Sisters

Don't Sleep On these 13 Great Personal Essays...

Lonely Animals

Fifteen Excellent Personal Essays to Read this Week...

The Prompt-O-Matic: #2

Soooo Many Essays...

On Silence (or, Speak Again)

A Baker's Dozen of Knockout Personal Essays...

Burning Man Is Even Better with Kids — and with Care

Your Weekly Dose of Stellar Personal Essays...

Writing with Great Humor About the Hard Stuff

Mirrors

Your Weekly Batch of Stellar Personal Essays...

The Prompt-O-Matic: #1

HOW WE SPEND OUR DAYS: September 2023

A Dozen Excellent New Pieces of Personal Narrative...

Thirteen Great Personal Essays to Improve Your Week...

Fourteen Personal Essays, Submissions info, and more...

Private Storm on Black Mesa Landscape

Your Weekly Dose of Stellar Personal Essays...

How—After 15 Years—I Stopped Panicking, Started Declawing, and Finally Published My Memoir

A Dozen Personal Essays to Start Your Week Off Right...

Drop Everything and Read These 11 Stellar Personal Essays...

The Re-Parent Trap

Your Weekly Batch of Excellent Personal Essays...

Life (and Writing Career) After Going Viral

A Baker's Dozen of Great Personal Essays to Take You Through this Week...

Personal Essay-Palooza...

My Hysterectomy: A Love Story

Abortion Abortion Abortion

Twelve Stellar Personal Essays, Curated Just For You...

Running For My Lives

A Fresh Dozen: This Week's Best Personal Essays...

Thirteen Excellent Personal Essays to Read this Week...

From Memoir to Movie Script

The Sound of Grief

Thirteen Excellent Essays to Read on this Holiday from Work...

The Pleasure Palate

Got a Fresh Batch of Stellar Personal Essays For You...

How I Survive as a Writer Through Public Speaking

Personal Essays by the (Baker's) Dozen

Tell Me, What Do You Think About You?

A Dozen Personal Essays to Celebrate Our Publication's New Name: "Memoir Land..."

Reclaiming My Late Father

A Dozen Solid Personal Essays to Start Your Week Off Right...

How's the Writing Going, Cheryl Strayed?

Fourteen Personal Essays to Remind You that You Are Human...

What I Wish I Knew As a Younger Writer

A Baker's Dozen of Excellent Personal Essays...

"I Approached the Writing of this [Memoir] Like a Poet..."

Crying, a Dissertation

A Dozen Personal Essays to Start Your Week Off Right...

The Diagnosis and Surgery I had to Fight For

Make Time for these Fourteen Stellar Personal Essays...

How's the Writing Going, Deesha Philyaw?

Clickbait, But for Smart People...Who Enjoy Personal Essays

"Every Time You Start, You Forget What You Know, Which is the Best Way to Start"

Ditching Perfect for Joy

Personal Essays Rule

Writing and Rushing

A Dozen Essays and More...

In Defense of Sydney

You Could Be Forgiven For Stealing Time Away From Work to Read These 10 Pieces...

How's the Writing Going, R.O. Kwon?

In the Stormy Sea, a Life Preserver

Make Time for these 10 Stellar Personal Essays...

A Fresh Batch of Mini-Memoirs Just For You...

How’s the Writing Going, Bernice McFadden?

A Three-Time Memoirist Switches to Narrative Nonfiction

Make Time for These 12 Mini-Memoirs...

Thirteen Mini-Memoirs...and More

The Bedroom

No Bakers Were Consulted in the Curation of this "Baker's Dozen" of Excellent Personal Essays

So Many Stellar Personal Essays, So Little Time. Plus...Announcing the AWP Memoir Monday Reading!

Remember Us As We Were

Why Do They Call 13 A Baker's Dozen? (Related: That's How Many Essays Are In Today's Newsletter)

How to Be Your Own Agent

A Dozen Personal Essays, and a Half-Dozen Announcements...

Fifteen Personal Essays to Ease You Into the New Year...