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December Memoir Writing Contest: Grand Prize Winner Donna DeWeerd for Pease, Please, A Christmas Present

by Matilda ButlerDecember 25, 2011

Join Women’s Memoirs in congratulating Donna DeWeerd for her Grand Prize Winning story. Please leave her a note in the Comments section just below her story.

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December Holiday Memoir Contest Winners Announced

by Matilda ButlerDecember 25, 2011

Post #164 – Women’s Memoir Writing, ScrapMoir – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett December Holidays: Memoir Contest Winners Announced Merry Christmas. Kendra and I wish you the best for this day and for all of 2012. We hope you have days filled with family, friends, love and hope. A contest featuring December just has to […]

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Memoir Contest News: Deadline Approaching

by Matilda ButlerDecember 24, 2011

Final memoir writing contest for 2011 closes on December 31. Before you go out to celebrate, be sure to send us your 2012 resolutions.

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Memoir Contest: Fishing Heaven by Kelly Ann Wright

by Matilda ButlerDecember 22, 2011

Memoir contest winner Kelly Ann Wright shares the story of a major turning point in her life.

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Writing Prompts: Why We Write

by Matilda ButlerDecember 20, 2011

Women’s Memoirs invites you to tell us Why You Write.

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Writing Tip and Prompt: In How Many Words?

by Matilda ButlerDecember 19, 2011

A Women’s Memoirs writing prompt about the variety of words you use. Try this writing exercise and see how it affects your writing.

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Writing and Healing: A Reader Shares Her Story

by Matilda ButlerDecember 18, 2011

Is writing healing for you? One of our readers, Mary Thompson, shares that writing has been healing for her and allowed us to include the story she has written about her father. Be sure to let Mary know what you think of her story.

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December Memoir Writing Contest: Grand Prize Winner Donna DeWeerd for Pease, Please, A Christmas Present

December Holiday Memoir Contest Winners Announced

Memoir Contest News: Deadline Approaching

Memoir Contest: Fishing Heaven by Kelly Ann Wright

Writing Prompts: Why We Write

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Writing and Healing: A Reader Shares Her Story

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Award-Winning Collective Memoir

Rosie the Riveter’s Bandana Available at RosiesDaughters.com and Etsy.com

Thanks for the Award

TALES OF OUR LIVES — New Award-Winning Anthology Now Available

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SEASONS OF OUR LIVES Author Reads Her Story

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