Jane Friedman at the Public NAMW Memoir Writing Roundtable Tele-conversation

I’m so excited to be able to have a conversation with Jane Friedman this Thursday September 2 at the free NAMW roundtable! She’s a contributing editor at Writer’s Digest, and an energetic, knowledgeable, and inspiring speaker.

Poetry–the Door to a Healing Memoir

Mary Mackey, author of many award winning books, a memoir teacher, and a poet, regaled the National Association of Memoir Writers with her knowledge about poetry and creativity during our monthly teleseminar. She showed us how poetry can open the doors to our unconscious, invite new memories, and infuse our memoirs with the sensual details we need to create a good story.

13 Reasons to Write a Healing Memoir

“Re-member” means to bring together the different parts of ourselves, and find ourselves whole.

The Power of Memoir is on Kindle!

I wish everyone a Happy New Year, and I hope that if you feel the desire to write, that today you will sit down and listen to that voice within you, and write.

NOW AVAILABLE: Audio File from Becky Levine’s September 11, 2009 Member-Only Teleseminar

New Teleseminar Audio Download available!
Guest Speaker: Becky Levine
Teleseminar title: Critiquing Memoir: Being Professional with the Personal
Date: September 11, 2009
To access the file, simply select AUDIO DOWNLOADS from the menu in the sidebar on the right of your screen.
When the new pages appears select the TELESEMINARS tab in the middle of the page and navigate to [...]

Sign Up now for Kim Pearson’s 6-Session Workshop: Playing Your Part on the World Stage: How Your Memoir Intersects with History

Playing Your Part on the World Stage: How Your Memoir Intersects with History
Take a gallop back in time, to the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with author, ghostwriter and historian Kim Pearson, and discover how you participated in and contributed to the events and trends of those times. Yes, if you were 7 or 77, what [...]

Women’s Right to Vote

Today is the Anniversary of the passing of the Amendment to the US Consitution that gave women the right to vote.  Perhaps not many reading this post were around when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed, but most of us have voted in a US election.
How has this right impacted Your Story in History?
Write about [...]

Kennedy Legacy

Sen. Ted Kennedy
As soon as we heard the news of Senator Kennedy’s passing, we couldn’t help but start exchanging the stories that impacted our own personal histories. We wondered how the many events that fill the legacy that is the Kennedy family will shape our own memoirs.
The Kennedy Family’s legacy spans generations. From [...]

[September 17, 2009] FREE Workshop PREVIEW Teleseminar with Kim Pearson & Linda Joy Myers: Your Memoir and History – What Part Did You Play in 1984?

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Your Memoir and History –What Part Did You Play in 1984?
FREE PREVIEW Teleclass with Kim Pearson & Linda Joy Myers

September 17, 2009 Thursday 4PM PST, 7PM EST

Join us in this free one-hour conversation between Kim Pearson and Linda Joy Myers of the National Association of Memoir Writers (www.namw.org), [...]

[September 25, 2009] [10 Week Workshop] Fall schedule: Advanced Writing a Healing Memoir TeleWorkshop with Linda Joy Myers

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Fall schedule: Advanced Writing a Healing Memoir TeleWorkshop
Linda Joy Myers, Ph.D., President of NAMW

This advanced group is for those who have begun to explore the significant events in their lives and have written the early stories of their memoir. The writers in this group will deepen their progress [...]

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