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• Memoir Contest Winner: Honorable Mention for Catherine Lanser’s Costume Accessory

  
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  Womens Memoirs is pleased to publish Catherine Lansers award-winning Halloween memoir vignette. Be sure to leave her a note in the Comment section.
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• Memoir Author Dawn Novotny and Saving Your Family History

  
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  Womens Memoirs welcomes Dawn Novotny, author of: RagDoll Redeemed: Growing up in the Shadow of Marilyn Monroe. Dawn has few good stories to tell about her childhood but knows the value of finding and documenting the treasured family stories that do exist.
  6 days ago

• Memorial Day Membership Sale

  
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  In honor of Memorial Day, we’re discounting the prices on new memberships and renewals from May 23-29!  Now is a great time to join NAMW or renew for another 12 months.  Memberships are only $129 and renewals are $127.    Why Join NAMW? NAMW members receive numerous benefits.  Here are just a few: 1.) ...
  6 days ago

• Just a Sheet of Paper-Sulo Moorthy

  
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  Im just a sheet of paper Yes, thats what I am Plain, white and blank Thats what I look to you Until...yes, I say until Im picked up,and scribbled on. Thats when I wake up And  become alive Alive to speak back to you To you, the writer, famous or unheard. Once woken up, I dislike to be put back to sleep I love when ...
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• Memoir Writing Prompt: The Power of Story

  
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  Womens Memoirs shares a family story and how research in the social sciences helps us better understand the people in our memoirs.
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• Memoir Writing Tips: Concepts from Classical and Now Modern Music

  
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  Music suggests a new way to write. Womens Memoirs shares where we got the insight for our writing system that we call Writing Alchemy.
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• Blog Tour for Ragdoll Redeemed | Dawn Novotny

  
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      We are happy to welcome Dawn Novotny to the National Association of Memoir Writers for her blog tour with WOW–Women on Writing! She is the author of Ragdoll Redeemed: Growing Up in the Shadow of Marilyn Monroe. I have known Dawn for several years and watched her develop from a tenative writer to ...
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• Happy Birthday Bill | The Golf Shoes

  
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  May 5th, Cinco De Mayo, my father-in-law would have celebrated his 74th birthday. Unfortunately, he passed away 14 years ago at the tender age of 60, so young. My husband and I are back in the area where my father-in-law is laid to rest after a 15 year absence. We got flowers and went to the cemetery to celebrate his ...
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• Memoir Writing Tips: Exercises Inspired by Bach and Cicero

  
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  Join Womens Memoirs today as we explore writing tips inspired by J.S. Bach and M.T. Cicero. Let us know your thoughts by leaving us a note in the Comments section.
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• Memoir Writing Prompts: Joseph Campbell and Crossing of the Return Threshold

  
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  Post #148 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing Prompt – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda ButlerDay 5, The Final Phase of a Memoir Author’s Mythic JourneyCongratulations. We have arrived at the end of the journey as explained by Joseph Campbell and exemplified by Gail Straub. For the past four days, I’ve described phases of ...
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• Memoir Writing Tip: Joseph Campbell, The Supernatural Aid, and Road of Trials

  
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  Today Womens Memoirs continues with our second day of exploring Joseph Campbells stages of the Heros Journey. This is the second of five days this week when we investigate the five stages that match with the five that memoir author Gail Straub uses to explain her mythic memoir journey.
  2 weeks ago

• Writing and Healing: One Day of Panic and Three Days of Work — 5 Tips for Honoring Your Writing Process

  
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  Pamela Jane Bell is back with more of her great tips for memoir writing. Be sure to check out these.
  3 weeks ago

• Journaling for Memoir Writers—A Short Course in Writing Deeply

  
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    We write before knowing what to say and how to say it, and in order to find out, if possible.  ~ Jean-Francois Lyotard ~ Journaling can support your memoir writing in so many ways. We are happy to present our guest Amber Lea Starfire for our May 18 National Association of Memoir Writers Teleseminar for a short ...
  3 weeks ago

• News: Memoir Writing Contest and Independent Publisher Article

  
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  Two News Items from Womens Memoirs: Memoir contest deadline is June 1; Independent Publisher features Women in Publishing with Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
  3 weeks ago

• Shh. Memoir Writing in Progress

  
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  Im writing a memoir and Ive already spent a few years on it. I imagine my first book as a little baby. Everyone is cooing and asking about how its doing. At night, I pick up the piles and piles of notes and place them neatly in bed, next to a window and stare at it admiringly.
  3 weeks ago

• Memoir Contest Winner: Guising and Galoshens by Mairi Neil

  
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  Womens Memoirs is pleased to published the First Place winner in our Halloween from a Childs Perspective contest. Mairi Neil shares stories of Halloween from her native Scotland, a story she sends us from her current home in Australia.
  3 weeks ago

• Writing a Memoir

  
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  The next project in Reading Workshop will be to write a memoir.  Although somewhat like an autobiography, a memoir is slightly different.  It focuses on an event or personal experience and frequently shares a life lesson or special meaning caused by the event. The first step to writing a memoir involves making ...
  3 weeks ago

• Memoir Writing Tip: 5 Tips for Writing About a Liar

  
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  Five memoir writing tips to use when you need to write about a person who is lying. Its this level of detail that enables you to show rather than tell what is happening.
  3 weeks ago

• You Said What? Writing on ‘Taboo’ Subjects

  
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  Today’s post is a guest post from Chynna Laird, author of the memoir, White Elephants. Don’t forget to check out my book review of White Elephants! For those of us who have written memoirs, we know it can be an excruciating process. Especially if your book delves into subject matter that society often considers ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is the Future Here Yet?

  
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     The Future of Books   What is the future of reading? of books?  of fiction?  novels? I do not know.  Many people think they know, and despite reports in lots of newspapers and some of my favorite magazines about the future of publishing and so on and so forth, no one really ever can know the future. ...
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