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Memoir Writing

Keeping the Light of Family Memory in Memoir

Author Stacy Waldman Bass discusses the process of processing the deaths of both her parents and focusing the events in memoir.

Stacy Waldman Bass
Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: How I Stopped Floating Through Sentences and Took the Helm in My MemoirLeslie Johansen Nack
Saying Enough or Too Much in MemoirAna Hebra Flaster
Why I Wrote and Published My MemoirSally McQuillen
The Messy House of MemoirJill Bialosky
Just Write: Journaling as a Stepping Stone to Becoming a WriterMaura Casey
Writing as Architecture: Notes on Building vs. Writing Your MemoirRebe Huntman
Why I Decided to Write a Memoir—And How I Did ItJulie Ryan McGue
One Piece of Advice From 35 Nonfiction Authors in 2024Robert Lee Brewer
Turning Memoir Into Fiction: A RecipeSusen Edwards
Using Old Diary Entries to Piece Together a MemoirCornelia Maude Spelman
9 Things I’ve Learned Writing a MemoirCharles Bock
Writing Around the Phases of the MoonJenna Tico
What Exactly Is a “Fractured Memoir” and Why I Wrote OnePaul Rousseau
Two Memoirs, One Person, Two VoicesAlison Rand
Overcoming the Self-Defense Reaction of Making Ourselves Smaller to Tell Our StoriesPenny Lane

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