By Andrea A. Firth

I was walking around the Book Fair at the AWP dragging my feet. By the end of the second full day of the largest literary gathering in North America, I’d attended panels on craft, pitching, publishing, and platform and per...

By Allison K Williams

One of these people has a story, and the other one isn’t going to like it.

Dear Adult Child, I understand. You are shocked—shocked!—that your mother is writing a memoir. That your father is publishing a p...

A Brevity Blog Round Up on Photography and Writing

By Dinty W. Moore

Ansel Adams, a genius of landscape photography, advises anyone wanting to take memorable pictures to ask “‘Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I gr...

By Diana Daniele

Memory plays a pivotal role in the writing and shaping of a memoir. But what if your work-in-progress includes a portion of your life in which your recollections are dim?

As I worked to complete the first...

By Laurie Hertzel

Years ago, when I was working on my MFA, one of my thesis advisors gave me a warning. After she published her memoir, Suzannah Lessard said, most of her family stopped speaking to her. “You have to be prepared for th...