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Memoir Writing Contest: What Might You Expect to Get When Your Birthday Falls on Mother’s Day? by Maria Preston

by Matilda ButlerOctober 13, 2011
Memoir Writing Contest: What Might You Expect to Get When Your Birthday Falls on Mother’s Day? by Maria Preston

Memoir Writing Contest Winner: Maria Preston’s award-winning memoir vignette is shared with you. We invite your comments in the Comments field just below her story.

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Memoir Contest Winner: What We Do by Jenna Gensic

by Matilda ButlerOctober 12, 2011
Memoir Contest Winner: What We Do by Jenna Gensic

Memoir Contest Winner Jenna Gensic’s story of her first Mother’s Day will touch your heart.

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Memoir Writing Prompts: Object Stories

by Matilda ButlerOctober 11, 2011
Memoir Writing Prompts: Object Stories

Memoir Writing Prompts: Do have have a special object? Read about transforming that into a special memoir vignette.

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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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Memoir Contest Winner: Cut the Cake by Deborah Gilson

by Matilda ButlerOctober 6, 2011
Memoir Contest Winner: Cut the Cake by Deborah Gilson

Join us in congratulating Deborah Gilson for her award-winning story reflecting back 46 years to her fifth birthday. We’re sure it will evoke memories from your past.

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Memoir Book Review: Laura Furman’s The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

by Matilda ButlerOctober 5, 2011
Memoir Book Review: Laura Furman’s The Mother Who Stayed: Stories, Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

Post #62 – Women’s Memoirs, Author Conversations – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler The Mother Who Stayed: Stories by Laura Furman Reviewed by Lanie Tankard “History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction.” —Amy Waldman “Truth in Imagined Things” Wall Street Journal Memoir Writing as Meditation: The […]

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