The following 38 writers were chosen out of 185 writers and will be published in THE MAGIC OF MEMOIR, coming out in November and available now for preorder.
• Carol Anderson, What Is It About Memoir?
• Marina Aris, My Twenty-Three-Year Project
• Donna Barnes, I Told Her To Shut Up
• Krishan Bedi, Out of Laughter and Tears
• Lynette Benton (1st place), No More Secrets and Silence
• Roseann Bozzone, Of Kids and Rabbits
• Bella Mahaya Carter, Writing Naked
• Nancy Chadwick, I Called You a Memoir
• Lynette Charity, From the Projects to Prosperity
• Sarah Conover, The Taste of her Milk
• Eanlai Cronin, My Own Story
• Alison Dale, The Gift of Loss
• Vanya Erickson, The Power of Words
• Ashley Espinoza, We Are All Writers
• Bob Finertie, Dialogue with the Inner Critic
• Rita Gardner, From Fear to Freedom
• Peter Gibb, The Shower and the Fish
• Robert Hammond, A Light Journey
• LaDonna Harrison, Where’s the Juice?
• Jill Kandel (2nd place), Writing the Silence Away
• Rosalyn Kaplus, On Becoming A Memoirist
• Nadine Kenney Johnstone, What To Do When Your Memoir Gets Rejected
• Kelly Kittel, Epilogue
• Jing Li, From China’s Red Stone Bridge to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
• Leza Lowitz, The Empty Space
• Apryl Schwab, Life Inverted
• Dhana Musil, As If Your Parents Are Dead
• Laurie Prim, It Would Never Happen To Us
• Crystal-Lee Quibell, The Aftermath Of Memoir
• Sonvy Sammons, Journey To a Memoir
• Irene Sardanis, Writing and Agenda
• Fran Simone, Trust the Process and Find the Thread
• Jill Smolowe, Why I Don’t Find Writing Memoir Cathartic
• Rosie Sorenson, Doing It Wrong ’Til You Get It Right (Eventually)
• Ruth Stender, By the Grace of God, I Write Memoir
• Paula Wagner, The Mythic Journey of Memoir
• Jude Walsh (3rd place), The Unfolding Story
• Jerry Waxler, Life Into Stories
The Magic of Memoir also features interviews with the following best-selling memoirists:
• Mary Karr (Liar’s Club)
• Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran)
• Margo Jefferson (Negroland)
• Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)
• Dani Shapiro (Devotion)
• Raquel Cepeda (Bird of Paradise)
• Daisy Hernandez (A Cup of Water Under My Bed)
• Jessica Valenti (Sex Object)
• Mark Matousek (The Boy He Left Behind)
• Hope Edelman (The Possibility of Everything)
• Sue William Silverman (Love Sick)