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First-Ever Golden Nib Award: Memoir Writer Sharon Mortz Receives Honor

by Matilda ButlerNovember 5, 2011
First-Ever Golden Nib Award: Memoir Writer Sharon Mortz Receives Honor

Women’s Memoirs announces the first-ever recipient of our new Golden Nib memoir award. We are pleased to introduce you to Sharon Mortz’s story: Messages. Please join us in congratulating Sharon and be sure to leave her a note in the Comments section.

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Writing and Healing: Dignity Therapy — Not Just for the Dying

by Sharon LippincottOctober 9, 2011
Writing and Healing: Dignity Therapy — Not Just for the Dying

Post #26 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler Explorations in Writing and Healing for Memoir Writers Sharon Lippincott regularly highlights how life writing, especially memoir, is a well-documented healing process. Her discussions never fail to bring new ideas to us. Today, we invite you to read her important article […]

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional Extremes

by Amber Lea StarfireOctober 8, 2011
Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional ExtremesJournal Writing for Memoir: Mining Emotional Extremes

Post #49 Memoir Writing, Journaling by Amber Lea Starfire – Journals are a wonderful place—if not the place—to express emotions that cannot or should not be expressed elsewhere. On those pages, we attempt to put into words all the energy we feel about things happening in our lives. One day, we soar with love that […]

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Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining Metaphor

by Amber Lea StarfireSeptember 10, 2011
Journal Writing for Memoir: Mining MetaphorJournal Writing for Memoir: Mining Metaphor

Post #48 Memoir Writing, Journaling by Amber Lea Starfire – This is the first in a series of articles about how to use your journal for memoir writing. – In October of last year, I wrote in Making Meaning Through Journal Writing: Stories of Our Memories about how and why, at the beginning of each […]

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Memoir Writing Contest: The Green World of a Child by Jennifer Hazard

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 8, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: The Green World of a Child by Jennifer Hazard

Women’s Memoirs is pleased to bring you the award-winning story by Jennifer Hazard. Jennifer recalls summer’s spent with her mother at her grandmother’s house — times of freedom and enjoyment of nature.

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Memoir Writing Contest: Yippie Yippie Green by Pamila Jo Florea

by Matilda ButlerSeptember 1, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: Yippie Yippie Green by Pamila Jo Florea

Women’s Memoirs hopes you enjoy Pamila Jo Florea’s Yippie Yippie Green, an honorable mention winner of our March Memoir Writing Contest, Memories of Life Observed.

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Writing and Healing: Double Benefits from Memoir

by Sharon LippincottAugust 28, 2011
Writing and Healing: Double Benefits from MemoirWriting and Healing: Double Benefits from Memoir

Sharon Lippincott shows how publishing our memoirs helps both the writer in healing and also the reader in insights gain and lives changed.

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