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Writer’s Digest 94th Annual Competition Memoir/Personal Essay First Place Winner: “The Dead Whale”
Moriah Richard
Writer’s Digest 94th Annual Competition Inspirational/Spiritual Essay First-Place Winner: “All the Way to Mystery”
Moriah Richard
Writing a Travel Memoir Is a Journey of Research and Relationships
Diane Hartman
Keeping the Light of Family Memory in Memoir
Stacy Waldman Bass
Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: How I Stopped Floating Through Sentences and Took the Helm in My Memoir
Leslie Johansen Nack
What’s in a Name?: How to Title a Memoir
Hendrika de Vries
Artis Henderson: Start Writing Before You Think You’re Ready
Robert Lee Brewer
Austin Channing Brown: Read Your Book Out Loud From Beginning to End
Robert Lee Brewer
On Obsession as Creative Practice
Bitter Kalli
Halina St. James: The Story Developed a Life of Its Own
Robert Lee Brewer
Saying Enough or Too Much in Memoir
Ana Hebra Flaster
Sonita Alizada: Resilience Is Not a Single Act but a Lifelong Process
Robert Lee Brewer
Nora Princiotti: Nail Your Elevator Pitch
Robert Lee Brewer
Bonnie Yochelson: On Exploring New York’s Gilded Age
Robert Lee Brewer
Writing With Immediacy in Memoir
Christine Kalafus
In Praise of Writing the Small Story: Everyday Essays With Big Impact
Sarah Fawn Montgomery
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