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The object is never the subject. The object is the lens. By Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. I did not set out to write a memoir. I set out to write about my stomach. Specifically, the com...
By Dawn M. Smith When I started writing my memoir about working at The Marine Mammal Center in Northern California in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my goal was to have people vicariously expe...
by Danya Kaufmann I spent a couple weeks in Dharamshala one summer, up in the lush green mountains of Northern India. The village was enveloped by a magical mist, and I was in heav...
By Amy Monticello If there’s a “sweet spot” for an essay’s word count—say, 2,000-4,500 words, as many journals list in their submission guidelines—it has mostly eluded me. Maybe it...
A composite self-portrait. The post An Accounting. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
By Allison K Williams A writer friend had an essay rejected fourteen times. It dealt beautifully with the journey of her abusive father’s dementia, and recognizing that her now-car...
By Elissa Jacobs My memoir was written at sloth-speed. More than a decade from the first words on the page to a full first draft; more than five years beginning from when I “got se...
An essay can have benefits beyond those that come from publication By Elizabeth Roper Marcus Shortly after taking up writing in my late 40s, I finished a memoir piece I was proud o...
A Note on Reality: The stories in this series are deeply personal reflections. To protect the privacy and peace of the people I care about…Continue reading on The Story Well В»
In Brian Dillon’s bewitching new book, “Ambivalence: An Education,” the author’s younger self is depicted as an inscrutable, fumbling figure named B.
By Sarah Curtis In the spring of last year, I mailed my father a copy of my manuscript before my publisher sent it to press. Since it was about him, I thought he deserved the final...
Trigger Warning: This piece references the threat of sexual violence during Partition and the death of a loved one; reader discretion advised. History survives not only in archi...
The legendary 1930’s essay ‘In Awe of Words’ often circles back to the quiet reasons we write — the rhythms that steady us, the connections that surprise us, and the memories that...
A mother, a son, and the brutal telling that ended usContinue reading on The Narrative Arc »
An introduction from the author “Blue Spark” came about when the incredible writer and editor Jennifer Kabat asked me to contribute to a nonfiction publication she’d started with t...
By Liz Fiedorow Sjaastad When I wrote and published my memoir, You’re Too Young to Understand—a story about growing up in a family shaped by serious mental illness and the long arc...
I so often find myself inspired not by a specific event, but by a series of news stories, a pattern to conversations I’m having with friends, a rash of films about the same subject...
This is the third essay in a series. Read “Blue Spark,” Part One here and “Blue Spark,” Part Two here. “Blue Spark,” Part Three by Nelly Reifler Chapter III 1. That smell. Back in...
By Ethan Gilsdorf I spent the formative years of my childhood with a Super 8 movie camera and, later in high school, in the clunky medium of ¾ inch video, creating DIY claymation...
Leena Wilde Ryan walked into her grandmother's funeral relieved to have a break from her writing job. She walked out having delivered what she calls "the best stand-up routine of m...
At the dawn of my twenties, lonely, destitute, and disoriented by the demands of making a new life in an alien world, I started keeping notes on my search for meaning while working...
Having a memoir out is like people have gotten hold of your diary and the reason they have it is because you gave it to them, writes Noelle McCarthy. After your memoir comes out,...
People like to think of memory as a video, something they can pull out and watch and then put carefully back into its case for future viewings. But memory is malleable, fallible. H...
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