Summer is right around the corner here in the northern hemisphere, and with summer come inevitable changes in schedules. I’m gearing up to travel from Virginia to California for my brother’s wedding, where I will visit with friends and family until the end of June. When I return to my desk in early July, […]
A couple of years ago, I attended a panel of editors of literary journals at AWP. The panel was organized by VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts to discuss the implications of TheVIDA Count— the disparaging ratio of women to men published in literary magazines and journals—and what to do about it. (The VIDA Count […]
Don’t expect to know your metaphors before you begin to write. This is what you’ll discover as you write. Sue William Silverman Writing memoir is an act of self-discovery. And the discovery that happens during the writing often reveals the deeper story of the self. Indeed, it’s not a stretch to say that the […]
One of the hallmarks of writing memoir is making sense of your life experiences. The very act of looking back and seeing how seemingly disparate events are connected by deeper themes leads not only to insight and wisdom but also to self-compassion. Writing about the past provides an opportunity to see who you once […]
This week’s guest blogger, Lisa O’Neil, is a student in Writing Women’s Lives™ Transform Your Writing/Transform Your Life™ Mentoring Program, where she and her mother— Lorain Fox Davis, Native American Elder, teacher, and singer— are working together on a memoir that chronicles the powerful connection that persists between a mother and daughter despite generations of silence […]