These are memoir excerpts from friends of The Memoir Network.
To return to another part of the Anthology:

Giving Dad the Bird
We enjoy when our readers submit their memoir-writing samples to us! The following story is from the memoir of one of our blog readers, Lori Robinson. We hope you will enjoy this sojourn in Africa: Two kinds of people sign up for African safaris. Most, myself included, want to see “The Big Five”–-lion, leopard, rhino, […]

Guest Blogger: Heroic Annie Hill
She’s more than a name on the genealogy chart, although I don’t know what she looked like or the sound of her voice, the color of her hair. Her heroic character shows in census records. Her scarred and paint daubed blanket chest sits in a place of honor in my home. My great grandmother, Annie […]

Memoir From an Abuse Survivor Joy Willows
Many people thought I must have struggled and suffered while writing my book. However, that is far from the truth…