T Categories Craft Interview The Power of Crafting Your Own Beginning: A Talk with Debut Author Suzette Mullen Suzette Mullen shares how she stepped off the straight path of her life and onto the winding one that became her memoir.
T Categories Essay Truth, Shame, and Writing A Memoir Jonathan Corcoran explores how shame and family secrets nearly prevented him from writing his memoir.
T Categories Craft Interview The Journalist in Me: An Annotated Interview with Putsata Reang By her own admission, Putsata Reang has an “insatiable appetite for research.”
B Categories Craft Interview Bringing the Past Forward Judy Goldman speaks with Stephanie Clare Smith about her memoir Everywhere the Undrowned and why the past is never behind us.
W Categories Essay When the Writing Is the Grieving After the death of her husband, Dominque Conway reflects on words, grief, and writing.
W Categories Craft Essay Whom Are We To Judge? Michael Igoe explores writing about others and what it does to ourselves.
Y Categories In Conversation Interview You have to do what works for you. A conversation with Sufiya Abdur-Rahman about her deeply reported and deeply personal memoir, Heir to the Crescent Moon.
T Categories Craft In Conversation Interview The Particulars of How Author Kristina Gaddy joins debut author and journalist Neda Toloui-Semnani to discuss trauma writing, the journalist's experience with memoir, and her nonlinear exploration of family history.
O Categories In Conversation Interview On Race, Secrets, & Love: An interview with E. Dolores Johnson Author Sonya Lea and debut memoirist E. Dolores Johnson discuss 'Say I'm Dead,' a family memoir of race, secrets, and love.
M Categories In Conversation Interview Memoir, Essay, and the Crucible of Meaning: An Interview with Joanna Eleftheriou Bruce I. Friedland and essayist Joanna Eleftheriou discuss trauma, identity, and place in the writing of 'This Way Back.'
