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