Julie & Julia Week at Women’s Memoir Writing

by Kendra BonnettDecember 28, 2009
Julie & Julia Week at Women’s Memoir Writing

Women’s Memoirs celebrates the last week of 2009 by dining on Julie & Julia. We’ll discuss what the blog, book and movie mean to memoir writers, foodies and bloggers.

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Make Your Seasonal Memories a Source for Memoir Writing with Our Holiday Writing Prompt

by Kendra BonnettDecember 25, 2009
Make Your Seasonal Memories a Source for Memoir Writing with Our Holiday Writing Prompt

This Christmas season just reminds us that family holidays and gatherings, special events, birthdays and every celebration is a source of material for your memoir.

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KitchenScraps – A Homemade Christmas by Constance Guidotti

by Matilda ButlerDecember 24, 2009
KitchenScraps – A Homemade Christmas by Constance Guidotti

KitchenScraps: Join Constance Guidotti as she looks back at a way of life connected to the land and to family in Cupertino, California, in the years when prune and apricot trees rather than Silicon Valley tech companies and McMansions dominated the landscape. As her gift, Constance invites you to try her grandmother’s heirloom recipe for Grated Apple Pie.

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Memoir Book Review – Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila by Jeannette Katzir

by Matilda ButlerDecember 23, 2009
Memoir Book Review – Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila by Jeannette Katzir

Book Raves: Guest book reviewer, Judy Watters, brings us into her experience in reading Broken Birds by Jeannette Katzir. Learn what intrigues her about this story of loss and abandonment that began during WWII and that continues today.

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500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #13 on Bridging Experiences

by Promptly PortlandDecember 22, 2009
500 Words (or More): Memoir Writing Prompt #13 on Bridging Experiences

Promptly Portland gives you an opportunity to think and write about your personal bridges — life transitions where friends or your own personal values have helped you cross into new territory.

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KitchenScraps: Christmas Memories 1949 by Barbara Bottini

by Matilda ButlerDecember 17, 2009
KitchenScraps: Christmas Memories 1949 by Barbara Bottini

KitchenScrap: Barbara Bottini tells a special childhood Christmas memory in her memoir vignette. She shares her mother’s Christmas Plum Pudding and Hard Sauce recipes, a tradition that Barbara and her sister keep alive.

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Memoir Book Review: Love Sick, One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction by Sue William Silverman

by Matilda ButlerDecember 16, 2009
Memoir Book Review: Love Sick, One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction by Sue William Silverman

Book Rave by Karen Walker who reviews Sue William Silverman’s second memoir, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sexual Addiction and tells us how we can learn more about the craft of memoir writing — especially creating memorable scenes — by reading this book.

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