Our Memoir Professionals are writers who have found a voice in creating their stories and books as clear in the following Memoir Professionals’ Stories & Articles Anthology
They have turned to teaching, coaching, editing and /or ghostwriting memoirs as a way of sharing their considerable skills and talents.
In this section, we are pleased to offer you an anthology of our Memoir Professionals’ Stories & Articles.
We have had Memoir Professionals from not only the US and Canada, but from countries as far flung as Australia, South Africa, England, Hungary, Israel, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Jamaica. While not all have submitted stories to the blog anthology, all are people who love to write.
In conclusion
Perhaps you are a writer who has wondered how to share your love of memoir with others. Besides publication which is a primary contact source with an audience, we feel that teaching, coaching and editing are also very important in sharing our great love of memoir writing.
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How The Memoir Network Evolved
The Memoir Network evolved with thought. Its services—which are necessary for the success of writers and of the Memoir Network—grew regularly over a decade.
Giving the Memoir Workshop Structure. Winging It Doesn’t Work
The Curriculum Manual focuses on the memoir workshop structure. “Winging it” has a certain value at times, but structure always leads to faster learning.
My Love Story with Memoir Writing: How I Started to Teach Memoir Workshops
I was asked to read from my autobiographical fiction to a group of foster grandparents. It was to prove how I started to teach memoir workshops.
Retiring to Memoir Writing: Justine Powell Kuntz
Eight years ago as a retirement project for church, I introduced memoir writing…
The Spirit of Villarosa: A Father’s Extraordinary Adventures / A Son’s Challenge
Libby Atwater is a memoir writer and long supporter of The Memoir Network. It is our pleasure to share her excellent work with you. By Horace Dade Ashton and Marc Ashton with Libby J. Atwater When Marc Ashton was kidnapped at gunpoint in Haiti, he fought to survive. Accosted by four armed thugs, Marc realized […]
She Loves Her, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Who were these Beatles, anyway? Everyone was screaming. Everyone, even Betsy, sitting next to me. Betsy was screaming her brains out. I stared at her in disbelief. But as I looked around Park Theater, the only movie theater in the Caldwells, the very green end-of-the-line little towns on the long boulevard that stretches from the […]
There Goes the Neighborhood, Part 1
Gunnar was mowing his field. This was odd. He never mowed his field. He was making ever-tightening circles around the knobby acre, the sweet grass and raggedy weeds falling in neat windrows behind him.
Pudgy: A Childhood Memoir
When I was ten, I ran away. I packed everything that was important into my sturdy cardboard suitcase. I left a note on the kitchen table warning my parents not to look for me at the high-tension wires, those metal electrical towers that marked the back border of our property and which were in fact […]
Childhood Memories: The Price of Happiness
In 1953, we left our one-bedroom basement apartment on 7th Street in New Toronto to live in the small town of Tottenham, Ontario. We moved into a three-bedroom flat above a hardware store. There was no central heat or hot water, but I thought it was a palace…