Myra… the writer

YouTube video by The Nonsense-Free Editor Writing a Memoir: How NOT to Get Sued

While pondering the question of what are “the rules” for writing about others, this video popped up on one of my feeds. This offering on the topic from the Nonsense-Free Editor seems sound.

youtu.be/jFv7_0TrE88

YouTube video by Alison Wearing Is memoir always true?

Great talk by Canadian memoirist Alison Wearing - Is Memoir Always True?

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Memoir Award - Bridport Prize

The Bridport Prize is open for submissions! In a contest focused exclusively on memoir, this is a great opportunity for emerging memoirists to tidy up a piece and compete.

bridportprize.org.uk/the-competit...

The Memoir Prize For Books! - Memoir Magazine The Memoir Prize awards Memoir and Creative Nonfiction book length works of exceptional merit in the categories of traditional, self-published, and previously unpublished prose. The only contest of it...

The Memoir Prize for Books has extended their deadline to April 30, 2025!

memoirmag.com/contests-and...

On Social Media, Or Why I Don’t Want To Publish Ghosts By Dritan Kiçi A wake-up call to writers: don’t just write—show up, stand by your work, and stop hiding behind mystique.

On showing up as a writer and claiming your work, a thought-provoking article (shared with me by a writer friend in our writing group), published by The Brussels Review.
thebrusselsreview.com/dritan-kici/...

The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir has just opened up for submissions. Established by Canadian writer Alison Wearing, the award honours exceptional memoir writing - and is one of few memoir specific competitions.

The deadline is June 30, 2025.
www.amyaward.com

I’ve learned so much about writing memoir and this is the place where I want to show up. I will share what I’ve learned and liked and written. I hope that you will, too.