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Thrilled to see Jenny Phillips’ essay for @www.sneakerwavemag.org featured in this week’s #memoirmonday roundup from @memoirland.bsky.social !!!

Lights Out Brian Macaluso looks back at the August, 2003 blackout in New York City.

Happy 22nd anniversary of the August, 2003 east coast blackout to all who celebrate. Here's a remembrance of it by @brianmacaluso.bsky.social.

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Why Mr. Bauer Didn’t Like Me As a child, Blaise Allysen Kearsley tried, in vain, to win over a white friend’s father.

Thank you @saribotton.bsky.social.
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Bargaining in the NICU An excerpt of "Frontier: A memoir and a ghost story."

Another excerpt of FRONTIER is up, over at @memoirland.bsky.social!

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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #94: Erin Dorney "At first I thought my book was 'just' poetry. But when pieces started getting picked up by literary journals with a non-fiction focus, I started thinking of it more as autofiction."

Was just re-reading my interview at @memoirland.bsky.social to prepare for my event on parasocial fandom this afternoon - it's a pretty good overview of my book & the headspace I was at when writing it.

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Memoir Land on Substack “Jonah’s injury was an anomaly, unexpected personally but not statistically, not if you examine the probabilities; it had to happen to someone somewhere—I had just stupidly, selfishly really, assumed ...

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Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #117: Maris Kreizman "I wanted to write about my own political awakening from a personal perspective, and hope that readers will identify with it."

"I got sick of the media narrative that we all grow increasingly conservative as we age, and I wanted to speak for the rest of us who’ve moved further to the left than ever, and are dreaming bigger now than we did when we were kids." - @maris.bsky.social
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Essays and Workshops and Submissions, Oh, My... Workshops from Literary Liberation, Narratively, Off Assignment, Margaret Juhae Lee, Alexander Chee; and calls for submissions from a forthcoming infidelity anthology, and Literary Liberation.

This week's "Memoir Monday." (Support ALL This and everything else I'm doing at Memoir Land? Especially if I've featured you or your clients? memoirland.substack.com/subscribe)

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Dream come true to be interviewed about Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode for @saribotton.bsky.social’s series @memoirland.bsky.social !

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Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for highlighting Walter Siti's "My Poor Parents", pub'ed in @grantamag.bsky.social, in this week's Memoir Monday roundup! 🫶
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At @memoirland.bsky.social I spoke with the one and only @melissafebos.bsky.social AND she took The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

Personal Essays Galore, PLUS Some Great Workshops and Calls for Submissions... Including: Workshops from Writing Co-Lab, Alexander Chee, Narratively Academy, and Melissa Petro; and calls for submissions from Blaise Allysen Kearsley and Literary Liberation.

I'm super psyched to say one of my essays is included in this week's @memoirland.bsky.social roundup! Especially given the impressive company I'm in.

Read them all (and especially Robin Pickering's "The Fuckitall." So good.)

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The Prompt-O-Matic: #69 A little something to get you writing.

It's this week's writing prompt, a perk for paid subscribers...

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I just read a charming, funny story by @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social: "How to Make a Living as a Writer: Horse stories in the morning, erotica in the afternoon."

It turns out she just published a new book – Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir.
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Love seeing Connie Petersen’s @www.sneakerwavemag.org story, “Dislodging a Navel Stone,” featured in this week’s #MemoirMonday!

Essays and Workshops and Submissions, Oh, My... Including: Workshops from Alexander Chee, Lilly Dancyger, Narratively Academy, Blaise Allysen Kearsley, and Melissa Petro; and calls for submissions from Kearsley and Literary Liberation.

It's this week's "Memoir Monday" link/workshop/submissions roundup!
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #104: Tom McAllister "In 'It All Felt Impossible' I’ve written a short essay for every year of my life."

absolutely LOVE the idea of writing a lil essay for every year of your life; can't wait to read IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE! great Q&A with @tmcallister.bsky.social in @memoirland.bsky.social today (book's out via @rosemetalpress.bsky.social)

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Déjà Vu Human/Animal author Amie Souza Reilly on repetition, revisiting past experiences in new contexts, and Derrida's concept of "iterabillity."

so grateful to @saribotton.bsky.social for including my essay on déjà vu, Derrida, the current president, my little sister, and my hesitation about Human/Animal's book launch in today's @memoirland.bsky.social!

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What Does It Mean to Be a Writer? An excerpt from "You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity"

Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

Some Great Personal Narratives to Dive Into this Week... Plus: Workshops from Lilly Dancyger, Rae Pagliarulo, Rosie Schapp, and Reedsy; a women's writers' group upstate, and a call for submissions for our collaboration with Literary Liberation.

The latest "Memoir Monday" personal essay roundup...
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Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for boosting this great memoir!

So jazzed to see @rachellsarnoff.bsky.social’s @www.sneakerwavemag.org story featured in this week’s #MemoirMonday roundup! Alongside a bunch of other great pieces 😍 #nonfiction #cnf #personalessay #truestories

Eleven Great Personal Essays to Dig Into this Week... Plus: Workshops by Rae Pagliarulo, Rosie Schapp and Dianne Jacob; and a call for submissions for our collaboration with Literary Liberation.

Hot off the presses, this week's "Memoir Monday" personal essay curation...
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I look forward to @memoirland.bsky.social’s Memoir Monday every week. Many thanks to @saribotton.bsky.social for including my @literaryhub.bsky.social essay about living with #longcovid in this week’s roundup! 🙏❤️

Many thanks to Memoir Monday for selecting my story, to Grief Dialogues for publishing it online, and The Jarnal by Mason Jar Press for publishing it in hardcopy in 2023.

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#story #storyteller #grief #griefstory #griefdialogues
#memoir #creativenonfiction #cnf

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #100: Me (Sari Botton) "I first started writing as a kid as a way to try and figure out why I felt different from others around me."

Well, look who took the @memoirland.bsky.social author questionnaire today… (The one I had scheduled fell through, so I had to snag the 100th slot for myself!)

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The Personal Essays You'll Want to Read Right Now... Plus: A reading by Electric Literature's EIC Denne Michele Norris; workshops by Vanessa Mártir and Dianne Jacob; Narratively's True Romance contest; and a call for submissions for Literary Liberation.

Here's this week's "Memoir Monday" personal essay roundup...

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How My Book Came To Be #3: Leah Sottile On writing and publishing "Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age" — the third in a new, candid behind-the-scenes series.

An essay by @leahsottile.bsky.social on writing "Blazing Eye Sees All."
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How My Book Came To Be #3: Leah Sottile On writing and publishing "Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets and the Fever Dream of the American New Age" — the third in a new, candid behind-the-scenes series.

Read more about how reporting my book on the New Age meant going to a "vortex" on Mt Shasta to be "transported" to a "city" inside the mountain — today over on @memoirland.bsky.social: memoirland.substack.com/p/how-my-boo...

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #97: Matthew Specktor "The book does render my experience, and faithfully, but it’s really about other stuff...this is actually a book about power."

The Golden Hour author @specktor.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire.
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