Oksana Marafioti

Let Your Audience Help You Find Your Story | Guest Blog by Oksana Marafioti

May 25, 2012 By NAMW Web Team

I'm so pleased to have back with us an amazing writer and storyteller Oksana Marfioti. She was a guest with us a few months ago and we are pleased to have her back. She is going to do a series of posts about writing, and about her new book American Gypsy. I have read her book, and it is wonderful--rich with the characters of her multi-ethnic family, full of stories about the gypsies, or Roma as they call themselves, in Europe, and how they have to adapt--or try to in America--told through the … [Read more...]

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I loved LindaJoy's two-hour workshop on memoir writing! She gave us such terrific information--all of which was helpful no matter what stage of memoir writing we were in. She has such an embracing style--this was not like most teleseminars I have taken, in that LindaJoy encouraged participation of the audience (she did not mute us), and no matter what participants said or asked, she always made everyone feel like their contribution or question was valued.

Debra Sanders

[For Sharon Lippincott] This tele-seminar is such an inspiration and so valuable to me expanding ways of thinking and creating…. makes me SPARKLE like Veuve Clicquot! Sharon, Thank you so much.

Rosalyn Kaplus

[The Power of Memoir by Linda Joy Myers] “A powerful and unique writing guide—one that will lead any writer straight to the heart of their richest material, help them heal, and then teach them how to shape it into literature. Destined to become a classic!”

Jordan E. Rosenfeld, contributing editor, Writer’s Digest magazine and author, Make a Scene: Crafting a Powerful Story One Scene at a Time

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 [...]