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When it comes to writing true stories, the key to creativity lies in granting ourselves permission, finding that spark of inspiration, and surrendering to our voice and deeper purpose.
Here on our blog, you can tap into our writers’ own experiences with each of these elements. Watch our author chats and read Q&A’s via the Meet Our Memoirists thread. Learn about our personal struggles and points of intrigue over at the Craft Column. Find out what works and ideas drive our curiosity via the Soapbox Series, and get your own questions about the writing life and process answered via our Heart Speak writing advice column.
As memoirists, our art lies in writing our lives down onto pages, and here in this space, we look forward to sharing our insights with you.
Meet Our Memoirists: Lisa Cooper Ellison
Catharsis is never enough. To heal, you must make new meaning from your experiences—a process that deconstructs you before it rebuilds you.
Heart Speak, The Writing Advice Column #6: When You’re a Writer Who’s Also Being Written About
Dear Lisa, I am writing a memoir about growing up feeling unloved and unwanted by my mother. My oldest son is a writer too. Originally,...
Do I Have the Right to Tell Your Story?
"I have no doubt in my soul that you will write a story that bares your soul. The story that broke your heart and mended it. Your words...
Meet Our Memoirists: Dana Mich
On the first night of HippoCamp: A Conference for Creative Nonfiction Writers in 2017, I sat in a darkened back corner of the lower level...
Heart Speak, The Writing Advice Column #5: Writing in the Face of Fragile Family Relationships
Dear Lisa, My memoir is about growing up in a family where the default position in any dispute was to totally cut that relative from our...
Writing in Retrospect
I am in the middle of writing an essay that spans a full twenty-nine of my thirty-two years of life. It hinges on an event that happened...
