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Want to write a memoir? Start here. (opens the original)
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This week, journalist Aaron Parsley visited my Reported Personal Essay class and spoke to my students about his 2026 Pulitzer-winning essay for Texas Monthly. He recounted his family’s tragic experience with the flood that devastated his home and killed his nephew, and he was incredibly open with us about how difficult these experiences were.My students asked him questions about his writing process, and his responses sparked a power
Last chance to register for a course about corroborating memory in personal writing (opens the original)
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Hi friends,I’ll be sending my weekly post on Thursday, but I wanted to pop into your inbox today to remind you about an upcoming writing course that I think you’ll find interesting.Tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, I’m teaching an online course about how to corroborate memory in personal essays and memoir writing. I’ve spent a lot of time developing this course, which will provide you with an array of practical tips and techniques to help you handle the challenges that arise when writing about
When professional distance meets personal writing (opens the original)
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This week, I’m happy to feature a guest post from Vanessa Scaringi, PhD, a licensed psychologist specializing in eating disorders. I first connected with Vanessa through the eating disorder community in Austin, and I’ve been following the great work she’s done leading up to the publication of her forthcoming book, Hungry for Connection: Heal Your Relationships with Food and People in an Insecurely Attached
The son I imagined — and the boy he became (opens the original)
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From a young age, I knew I wanted to one day have kids. I used to picture what they would look like, often conjuring up images of family photos that hung in the homes of my friends who had multiple siblings.We didn’t have any family photos on the walls of my childhood home, perhaps because the house was tiny (just 740 square feet) and my family was small (just me and my parents).As an only child, I wanted to have at least two children when I grew up. My reasoning was rooted in loss: if death str
Join me for two upcoming memoir-writing trainings (opens the original)
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I’ve been in teaching mode lately, now that the fall semester is underway at the University of Texas at Austin, where I teach journalism. I’ve also been prepping for two upcoming memoir-related trainings that I hope you’ll consider joining. The first training, which will take place later this month, is a three-hour course on how to corroborate memory in memoir and personal essays. Through a mix of instruction, writing exercises, and discussion, I’ll share practical techniques memoirists and essa
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