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What’s the Difference Between a Memoir and a Personal Essay?

What’s the Difference Between a Memoir and a Personal Essay?

Confused? Get in line!
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KiKi Walter
The Memoirist: 2025 Submission Guidelines

The Memoirist: 2025 Submission Guidelines

Updated Information for New and Existing Writers
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KiKi Walter
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Exploring the Past to Write Memoirs that Resonate

Exploring the Past to Write Memoirs that Resonate

Techniques to uncover deeper truths and create powerful stories from your memories
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Cindy Heath
Uncovering Universal Insights in Memoir Writing

Uncovering Universal Insights in Memoir Writing

Techniques to help you find meaning in your writing.
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Cindy Heath
From Memory to Essay: Enhancing the Impact of Personal Writing

From Memory to Essay: Enhancing the Impact of Personal Writing

Techniques to move your story from boring to compelling.
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Cindy Heath
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Some Days Are Diamonds

Some Days Are Diamonds

Even if they are diamonds in the rough
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David J. Elrod
Grieving Abroad

Grieving Abroad

A reflection on what two deaths taught me about grief
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Seandor Szeles
Japa, It Doesn’t Rain Here

Japa, It Doesn’t Rain Here

The truth behind the story
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George Blue Kelly
From Political Unrest in Africa to a Bitter Winter in England

From Political Unrest in Africa to a Bitter Winter in England

The extremes in life through an eight-year-old’s eyes
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Sally Prag
Rainbow Mountain and the Things I Carried

Rainbow Mountain and the Things I Carried

A camera, granola, and damaged heart is a lot to carry.
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Greyson Ferguson
A Fog-Wreathed Moment of Clarity

A Fog-Wreathed Moment of Clarity

It’s no picnic realizing your dad isn’t Superman. It’s worse when you take the wrong lesson from it.
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Dale Kaye
True Nature

True Nature

What a snake bite helped me accept
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Lee Ann Stevens
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