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The Memoirist

We exclusively publish memoirs: The creative stories unpacked from the nostalgic hope chests of our lives.

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It Happened To Me

William Mersey in The Memoirist

When You Find Out Your New Girlfriend Is a Sex Worker

And how I reacted

William Mersey in The Memoirist

How a Walk in the Woods Changed My Life Arc

A chance meeting with a kindred spirit

Vera-Marie Landi in The Memoirist

Picture of two girls bullying another.

Bullying

Being Bullied by Others Felt Normal to Me

Without anyone stopping the…

Tiffany Norman in The Memoirist

Three generations of women sitting next to one another, photo taken in 1988

Memoir

The Mystery of My Family’s Generational Trauma

Why each of our stories matter

Rodrigo S-C in The Memoirist

Small boy standing in agarden

When Bullying Becomes Too Much

Some survive, some do not.

StartledEgg in The Memoirist

A large bouncy (red and yellow) area with a woman with shaved hair doing a handstand and a teenage boy with long hair watching and laughing. Building in the background.

£2:50 Was All I Needed

All I needed to get home and meet my wife for the first time

Frances A. Chiu, Ph.D. | writing coach | editor in The Memoirist

I Lost my Friend’s Gift Three Times…before Losing Her

Reflections on coincidences, synchronicity and…

Maria Theresa Stadtmueller in The Memoirist

Finding My Family

Memory is even stranger than neuroscientists originally thought. Current research shows that bringing a memory up from storage…

Cindy Heath in The Memoirist

Turning Pages, Turning Points: A Bookseller’s Tale of Resilience

What do we do in the face of fear?

Beth Riungu in The Memoirist

A young, brown-skinned woman, smiling with the wind blowing her hair; rocky desert and hazy mountains in the background

What I Learned At Gunpoint In The Somali Desert

The Patron Saint of the Young and Foolish had a lot to…