Women Writing Memoirs Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/category/womens-books-and-writings/women-writing-memoirs/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:05:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How Courageous Are You? https://booksbywomen.org/how-courageous-are-you-by-diane-debella/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-courageous-are-you-by-diane-debella/#comments Thu, 06 Nov 2014 00:18:34 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12548 Since publishing my own story a year ago, and gathering the stories of  women who wished to share their truths in a collaborative anthology, I have been reminded just how difficult it can be to put our truths out into the world. Sharing our stories makes us vulnerable to criticism and judgment. Yet our life […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-courageous-are-you-by-diane-debella/feed/ 12 12548 Memoir Competition Mslexia https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-competition-mslexia/ https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-competition-mslexia/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:24:39 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11797 There are some amazing competitions for women writers! We didn’t want you to miss this one! Mslexia Women’s Memoir Competition is for full-length memoirs from unpublished memoirists. The only competition of its type in the UK, Mslexia is looking for memoirs of at least 50,000 words of prose that narrate actual events in the writer’s […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/memoir-competition-mslexia/feed/ 7 11797 In Defense of True Stories https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/ https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:16:08 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11774 I know, I know, agents are not interested in memoir, yet they openly admit they don’t know what sells. So why do we listen to them? It’s crazy because “Based on a True Story” sells. True stories are Hollywood’s darlings, and when we settle into our seats getting ready to watch a film and the […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/defense-true-stories-lani-cox/feed/ 16 11774 Reviewing Memoirs: Do You Cross the Line? https://booksbywomen.org/reviewing-memoirs-do-you-cross-the-line-by-marti-szabo/ https://booksbywomen.org/reviewing-memoirs-do-you-cross-the-line-by-marti-szabo/#comments Fri, 30 May 2014 13:44:07 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11651 “Stick to the writing!” In workshops as we respond to a memoir piece someone has just read, I remind myself and others that there’s a dangerous line we cross when we don’t stick to the writing. Hearing a personal story written candidly, spontaneously, with no attempts at camouflage, it’s easy to respond with empathy, “oh, you […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/reviewing-memoirs-do-you-cross-the-line-by-marti-szabo/feed/ 27 11651 The #IAmSubject Project https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/ https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/#comments Fri, 16 May 2014 22:03:58 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11391 We received over seventy submissions for the #iamsubject project.   The #iamsubject project is follow-up project to Diane DeBella’s memoir, I Am Subject, and is about learning from the lives of women writers so we can change the course of our lives. Diane’s memoir was made available at $2.99 through her sponsorship period to make it more affordable to share decades of […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/iamsubject-project/feed/ 5 11391 I Am Subject: We Write What We Need to Learn https://booksbywomen.org/i-am-subject-we-write-what-we-need-to-learn/ https://booksbywomen.org/i-am-subject-we-write-what-we-need-to-learn/#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2014 07:00:49 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=11188 Meet US Author Diane DeBella. She’s is our Site Sponsor through early June 2014. Her book “I Am Subject” is highly relevant to each of us as women, and as women writers. It is about being subject of our own lives, not objects, not adjuncts to the lives of others. Stay a while. Linger here and […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/i-am-subject-we-write-what-we-need-to-learn/feed/ 23 11188 An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler https://booksbywomen.org/american-bride-kabul-phyllis-chesler/ https://booksbywomen.org/american-bride-kabul-phyllis-chesler/#comments Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:46:29 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10461 An American Bride in Kabul by Phyllis Chesler   We’re excited to bring you another book – this one by the noted feminist and author of Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler.  “The dramatic, riveting, and timely tale of how one woman’s harrowing ordeal in a harem in Afghanistan shaped her into a modern feminist leader […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/american-bride-kabul-phyllis-chesler/feed/ 8 10461 How Can I Get My Memoir Published https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:54:45 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=10194 After you have toiled and tinkered and revised for ages, and you feel you finally have a strong manuscript, you begin to wonder how on earth to get your book into print. It goes without saying that that is a tough world, and even really top literary manuscripts fail to find a New York publisher. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/how-can-i-get-my-memoir-published-by-sara-mansfield-taber/feed/ 11 10194 My Big Fake Immigrant Memoir https://booksbywomen.org/my-big-fake-immigrant-memoir-by-aine-greaney/ https://booksbywomen.org/my-big-fake-immigrant-memoir-by-aine-greaney/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 13:10:43 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=8326 Let’s face it, the American immigration story has been done to death. It’s the “been-there-wrote-that” tale. So would someone please tell why I’m sitting here writing a book-length memoir about leaving my native Ireland, at age 24, to come alone to live in America? While I’m penning my woman’s immigrant story, the very same story is being played […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/my-big-fake-immigrant-memoir-by-aine-greaney/feed/ 6 8326 Losing the Artist, Saving Her Art (Part 2) https://booksbywomen.org/losing-the-artist-saving-her-art-part-2-by-victoria-andre-king/ https://booksbywomen.org/losing-the-artist-saving-her-art-part-2-by-victoria-andre-king/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:38:14 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=6849 Continued from Losing the Artist, Saving her Art Part 1. Eugenia’s physicians finally allowed her to travel with considerable misgivings, as she was 84 and had a metallic heart valve. Transatlantic travel is stressful one way or the other, but there was no holding her back. She wanted to experience the place that her daughter had loved […]

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