by Melanie Brooks | Oct 2, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
It takes a special kind of person to lean in to other people’s stories and help them untangle the knotted threads at their centers. It takes a special kind of person to lean in to her own story and give it voice with the hope that others in similar circumstances...
by Melanie Brooks | Jul 25, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
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 “Commons on Vine” space of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania Marriott Convention Center and listened to a handful of...
by Melanie Brooks | Jun 12, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
In April, I met Athena Dixon in person when she traveled to Massachusetts from her home in Philadelphia to present at the Muse and the Marketplace, a three-day literary conference sponsored by the Boston-based writing center, Grub Street. I drove into the city from my...
by Melanie Brooks | May 8, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
I’m thrilled to share that this week, Lara Lillibridge’s second memoir, Mama, Mama, Only Mama: An Irreverent Guide for the Newly Single Parent—From Divorce and Dating to Cooking and Crafting, All While Raising the Kids and Maintaining Your Own Sanity (Sort...
by Melanie Brooks | Apr 3, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
I was lucky enough to meet Lynn K. Hall when I learned my publisher, Beacon Press, was publishing her memoir, Caged Eyes: An Air Force Cadet’s Story of Rape and Resilience, on the same day in 2017 that my book, Writing Hard Stories: Celebrated Memoirists Who...
by Melanie Brooks | Feb 6, 2019 | All Posts, Meet Our Memoirists
This week, I Am Yours (Amberjack Publishing, 2019), Reema Zaman’s dazzling debut memoir, launches into the world, and we couldn’t be more excited! With unwavering courage and lyrical precision, Reema offers readers her story of unshackling her voice from...
