An interview with author Abigail Thomas
What a Qigong Grandmaster, Meghan Trainor, and a pandemic pity party taught me.
We've got a dozen of them here, plus announcements about classes, editing services, a literary festival and more...
Novelist Richard Mirabella would like to remind you (and himself) to resist the pressure to finish your book in a flash.
Five announcements, too! Don't miss them at the bottom.
Looking back at journal entries he wrote as a love-lorn closeted teen, Mike Albo finds kinship with a needy AI chatbot.
Welcome to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter featuring the best personal essays from around the web, and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by…
“I know that when I’m really writing, when I’m really, really lost in a sentence, I forget I have a body, I forget what time is. I forget to eat.”
Brooke Siem navigates her way through the undulations of antidepressant withdrawal and coral reefs.

February 2023

Welcome to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter featuring the best personal essays from around the web, and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by…
Welcome to Memoir Monday—a weekly newsletter featuring the best personal essays from around the web, and a quarterly reading series, brought to you by…
Fellow Libras Bernice McFadden and Sari Botton talk about the challenges of writing personal narrative, identifying the right nonfiction sub-genre, and…