"The trouble with life, the novelist feels, is its amorphousness. The novelist is addicted to seeing parallels and making connections. So the ability to stay with a theme and keep a lot of balls in ...

This course aims to encourage, support, and excite participants in engaging with creative writing in a safe and informal space. You will be introduced to a variety of approaches to memoir and life ...

Writing a mini-memoir is very different than the very popular ... I often share with them the example of a mini-memoir that I wrote. This is how it reads, in its entirety: "Of all the sports ...

Arifa Akbar, whose memoir, Consumed, explores the life and tumultuous death of her sister, Fauzia, shares her advice for how to begin writing a moving memoir. You’re now subscribed to all our ...

Martin Amis "Another reason why I wanted to write my family memoir, Losing the Dead, is that although my parents were in many ways very ordinary people, they did live through a historical moment ...

Writing your memoirs will lead you into emotionally difficult territory. How much of what you write will be the truth? And how do you select what to write about? We asked Martin Amis and Lisa ...