Memoir

Writing the Taboo in Memoir: Bring Your Most Vulnerable Stories to Life

At their best, personal narratives about “taboo” topics speak to our darkest truths and teach us what it means to be vulnerable.

Can’t remember? No problem! Learn how to embrace faulty memory and find new insights for your creative nonfiction.

Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.

Characterization in memoir is always a challenge: How can we make the people we know feel as real and alive for readers as they do to us?

Write flash essays that convey the depth and breadth of your life stories.

Unsure how to start writing about grief, loss, or trauma? Stuck midstream? Wondering how honest to be?

Stuck in a writing rut? Playful exploration will enliven your primary work and foster a sustainable creative practice over a lifetime.

The fuel that runs the engine of all good writing is our uncertainty…and the true curiosity of the writer

Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.

Learn to find and tie together the theme in your vignettes, letters, diary entries and more, to create meaning, continuity and flow.