Tag: Memoir
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15-Tango to Covid-19
15-TANGO to COVID-19 is a vivid, deeply personal memoir of resilience and perseverance across civilian life, military service, and nursing. Kristin L. Smith traces her journey from a civilian helicopter pilot buried in debt, to a Black Hawk crew chief deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom—and later, to the front lines of the COVID-19…
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Jan M. Flynn
She’s been published widely in anthologies and literary journals and has won international Writer’s Digest awards. Her creative nonfiction and personal essays have appeared in HuffPost, Chicken Soup for the Soul, in multiple publications on Medium.com, and on her Substack. On 5 May ’26 the first in her middle grade fantasy series, Griffin Speaker, will…
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I Am From Idaho
I Am From Idaho is a series of humorous adventures of a boy growing up in Idaho. Adventures include everything from building a go-cart from an old lawn mower to being trapped in a cave with the school bully. It is a nostalgic and sometimes poignant look at youth and adventure in a different world from…
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Stories of Stage and Screen
Jodi Eichelberger’s first book of personal narratives takes you on a journey from the back alleys of his hometown in Boise, Idaho to the boards of Broadway. Since his career in the performing arts began as an itinerant puppeteer touring to schools, there has always been pressure to strive for bigger and bigger audiences. But…
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Tangled by Blood
Rebecca Evans (whom we’ve interviewed) has recently released Tangled by Blood: A Memoir in Verse. Unlike other memoirs, Tangled by Blood is not a tale of redemption, but one of hard-earned love and high stakes. Through a shifting POV, Tangled by Blood offers social commentary on abuse, sexual trauma, addiction, and suicide. The poems and prose in Tangled by…
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Nancy Weston
With books running from mysteries to memoir, Nancy notes: “As I have matured, met people, had encounters, failures and triumphs and learned about life, I have filed away hundreds of interesting characters, events, encounters and sights. Now my mind fills with stories to share and my challenge is to select the one that is right…
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Glida Bothwell
Most recently capturing 19th century America’s struggles in the time-travel historical fiction story Abbey’s Journey: A Long Trail Home, Glida has written screenplays, short stories, flash fiction (including participating in Fiction 101), and memoirs. Do you have a writing routine? Where and when do you write? No routine, but I like to write in the…
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Michael Corrigan
Michael Corrigan was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He holds an MA in English from San Francisco State and attended the American Film Institute to study screenwriting. He was nominated for a Pushcart prize for the short story, “Free Fall.” He often draws upon his Irish heritage in his works, which include: Mulligan:…
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Outline Your Memoir
This free online workshop promises to help with a daunting task by starting with sorting through and organizing all the details you’ll need to structure your memoir. Author Jenelle Hardy will talk you through how to look at the vast and varied material in your life and get started with writing it down. This free…
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Online class for Memoirists 24 February
“Finding Yourself as an Engaging Character in Memoir” aims to help you write about you. Making the reader want to spend time with the writer as narrator is crucial. This class will tackle our own habitual shyness and uncertainty about how much to reveal and we’ll find out how to distinguish our own self-knowledge from…
