Life Writing Resources
Recommended Sites
- Carol Bodensteiner, Author (Carol Bodensteiner)
- Choices (Madeline Sharples)
- Marion Roach and The Memoir Project (Marion Roach)
- Mary Gottschalk, Author (Mary Gottschalk)
- Memoir Writer’s Journey (Kathy Pooler)
- Memories and Memoirs (Linda Joy Myers)
- Memory Writers Network (Jerry Waxler)
- Shirley Hershey Showalter (Shirley Showalter)
- Spiritual Memoirs 101 (Linda Thomas)
- Writers Helping Writers (Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi)
- The Heart and Craft of Lifewriting (Sharon Lippincott)
- The Memoir Network (Denis Ledoux)
- Women’s Memoirs (Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler)
- Women’s Writing Circle (Susan Weidener)
- Writing Through Life (Amber Starfire)
- Your Memories, Your Book (Wayne Groner, Personal Historian)
Recommended Reading
- A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
- Bird by Bird by Anne LaMott
- Don’t Call Me Mother by Linda Joy Myers
- Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl by Carol Bodensteiner
- Learn to Write Your Memoir in 4 Weeks by Jerry Waxler
- Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life by Marion Roach-Smith
- Memoir Revolution by Jerry Waxler
- On Writing by Stephen King
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
- Out of Synch by Belinda Nicoll
- Pebble in the Water by Bob Welch
- The Albuquerque Years by Sharon Lippincott
- The Four Elements for Writers by Jerry Waxler
- The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
- The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing by Sharon Lippincott
- The Power of Memoir by Linda Joy Myers
- Writing Alchemy by Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler