Nicole Johns

Writing to Heal: Nicole Johns — the Gifts that Writing a Memoir Gives to the Writer

December 3, 2011 By NAMW Web Team

Nicole Johns is going to speak with Rachael Herron and me at our free monthly Roundtable Discussion. Nicole understands the process of healing through writing a memoir, and will talk about some of the points in this blog post. Thank you Nicole for telling us more about your book! Purge: Rehab Diaries originated from journal entries written between 2000-2004, while I was in college and grad school. At the time I was 19-23. I always kept a journal, and that journal became especially important … [Read more...]

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NAMW Roundtable Discussion: Rachael Herron & Nicole Johns, The Gift of Memoir

December 3, 2011 By NAMW Web Team

NAMW Roundtable Discussion FREE for ALL December 8 4 PST 5 MST 6 CST 7 EST with Rachael Herron & Nicole Johns Topic: The Gift of Memoir Rachael Herron Join us in a discussion of how to frame memory into something more than just an off-the-cuff dinner party story. The truth, retold, can be liberating, entertaining, educational, and amusing -- sometimes all at the same time. Writing memoir is about finding your own truth and expressing it in the clearest, most … [Read more...]

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About the National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW)

The National Association of Memoir Writers (NAMW) is a membership organization that invites memoir writers from all over the world to connect, learn and become inspired about writing their stories. The goal of our organization is to help memoir writers feel empowered with purpose and energy to begin and develop their life stories into a publishable memoir, whether in essay form, a book, a family legacy, or to create a blog. » Learn More

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Upcoming Workshops & Classes

National Association of Memoir Writers Summer 2013 Healing/Spiritual Memoir Workshop

Workshop leader: Linda Joy Myers, author of The Power of Memoir June 20-August 8 Thursdays 3-4 PM Write raw, write bold. Tell secrets on the page, make lists, tune into your muse. All this is what we do in this short class that focuses on process not product. I have taught this workshop for [...]

The Choices We Make & Writing About Others: The Price We Pay | Free Roundtable July 11, 2013 4 PM

Laura Davis This roundtable discussion will explore the ethical, practical and emotional issues that we face when we write about real people in our lives, all of whom are bound to have strong feelings about the way they are depicted on the page. Evaluating our own ethical and artistic choices, and coming to [...]

From First Time Memoir Writer to Award Winning Author | Free Roundtable June 6, 2013

We are pleased to have as our guest a non-native English speaker and writer who began writing a memoir with the burning desire to write his story. With the help of coaching, networking, and a lot of hard work, his book Lost Decency just became a finalist in the the prestigious Ben Franklin Awards competition [...]