The NAMW Blog
Did you love Dani Shapiro’s Inheritance as much as we did?
If you were moved by Inheritance, read on. If you haven't read it yet, let this book be your fall indulgence. This will be our fifth year of teaching our best-selling memoir series, and teaching Dani Shapiro is like a home-coming for us. We've long admired Dani's...
Part Two: Creating a Writing Partnership
Susan Stroh Heide Boyden Loneliness lurks in the shadows. Its wicked buddies—writer’s block, regret, and self-loathing—disparage you until you feel one-inch high. You don’t have it in you to confront these demons, so you run away. You binge on Gilmore Girls for a...
Calling All Memoirists: Fall Memoir Magic Is Around the Corner
Best-selling author Lidia Yuknavitch (The Chronology of Water) is this fall's featured teacher, along with industry expert Jane Friedman and literary agent Regina Brooks, for Linda Joy and Brooke's day of MEMOIR MAGIC on September 13th. Most of you who follow our...
Barbara Stark-Nemon: Author of Hard Cider
“After everything that I’ve put you through, you can write whatever you want about me,” said the real person who may or may not be represented by a character in my most recent novel, Hard Cider. Sounds like permission, right? Not so fast. This is a young person,...
Writing Conferences—a great way to get inspired!
I hope you are enjoying your summer—long days of light, beach book reading, and the glory of flowers and bees and nature’s showiest show. I just returned from the Rutger’s Writing conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey filled up with inspiration! If you have never...
Part One: Introducing a Writing Partnership
Susan Stroh Heide Boyden I’m so pleased to introduce a series of blog posts about creating a successful writing partnership to help you with accountability and to give yourself the support you need to get your writing done. As many of you know, one of the purposes of...