Repost: Voice can make me fall for a memoir. Like love, voice is very tricky to describe but undeniable when present. Like love, voice belongs to the ineffable. While I […]
“Big-hearted, keen-eyed, lyrical, precise…Cheryl Strayed reminds us in every line that if defeat and despair are part of human experience, so are kindness, patience, and transcendence.” ~ George Saunders “Cheryl […]
Post by Theo Pauline Nestor I like to think of memoir as a genre in its adolescence. Before the publication of Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club (1995), Frank McCourt’s Angela’s […]
Post by Ariel Gore: I’m thrilled to be a part of this retreat and look forward to sharing what I know about voice in memoir-writing and bringing elements of the […]
Post by Candace Walsh For the past 20 years, I’ve made my living playing with words, and if you want to do the same, I will be happy to guide […]
Post by EJ Levy: I think of writing workshops as akin to Buddhist transmission, passing along ancient wisdom about how writers can seduce audiences into empathy and out of egoism, […]
I am very pleased and terribly excited to be part of the Wild Mountain Memoir faculty, where I will be teaching two classes in the areas of expertise I feel […]
“We get the work done on the ground level. And the kindest thing I can do for you is to tell you to get your ass on the floor. I […]
“What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.” —–Vivian Gornick, The Situation and […]
