Memoir Writing Contest: Lime Jell-O by Judith Newton

by Matilda ButlerMay 8, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Lime Jell-O by Judith Newton

Honoring Our Mothers and Grandmothers and our own Mothering — Memoir Writing Contest Winners: Judith Newton’s memoir vignette, Lime Jell-O, tells of a difficult mother-daughter relationship that is never resolved. And yet, at the end, the daughter is there to offer comfort.

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Memoir Writing Contest: Because of You by Kathleen Hewitt

by Matilda ButlerMay 8, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Because of You by Kathleen Hewitt

Honoring Our Mothers and Grandmothers and our own Mothering — Memoir Writing Contest Winners: Kathleen Hewitt’s memoir vignette, Because of You, is warm, caring, and full of understanding and forgiveness.

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Memoir Writing Contest: What Was I Going Back To? by Irene Kessler

by Matilda ButlerMay 8, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: What Was I Going Back To? by Irene Kessler

Honoring Our Mothers and Grandmothers and our own Mothering, Memoir Writing Contest Winners: We think the emotions in Irene Kessler’s story of her worst Mother’s Day will touch you.

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Memoir Writing Contest: Pink Pearls of Wisdom by Sara Etgen-Baker

by Matilda ButlerMay 8, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Pink Pearls of Wisdom by Sara Etgen-Baker

Honoring Our Mothers and Grandmothers and our own Mothering, Memoir Writing Contest Winners: We hope you’ll enjoy Sara Etgen-Baker’s beautiful memory of her grandmother, a woman who died on Mother’s Day.

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Memoir Contest Winners Announced: All About Mothers

by Matilda ButlerMay 8, 2011
Memoir Contest Winners Announced: All About Mothers

Memoir Writing Contest Winners Announced. Women’s Memoirs is pleased to announce the winners of our All About Mothers memoir writing contest. Today, the top four winners will have their Mother’s Day stories published.

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ScrapMoir How-To #30: Revealing Secrets in Your Scrapbook Stories and Memoir

by Bettyann SchmidtMay 4, 2011
ScrapMoir How-To #30: Revealing Secrets in Your Scrapbook Stories and Memoir

Scrapmoirs and memoirs at their best — that’s the point of ScrapMoir. Do you have a family secret? In this how-to article, Bettyann Schmidt share her family secret and helps you to consider the ways in which you can sort through the telling of your family secrets.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 2

by Matilda ButlerMay 3, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Three Views of Memoir and Truth, Part 2

Post #87 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Memoir Writing Prompts: A Second View of Memoir and Truth Today’s discussion of memoir and truth picks up where we left off last week. This is a second aspect of truth in memoir writing. “There’s been a fire through here,” my partner […]

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