Recommended Reading, Listening, & Watching for Memoir Writers

READING

Books on the Craft of Memoir
Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
by Beth Kephart

Fast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours
by Rachael Herron

The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
by Marion Roach Smith

On Writing
by Stephen King

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
by Dani Shapiro

Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott

Successful Self Publishing
by Joanna Penn

Memoirs
Group
by Christie Tate

Educated
by Tara Westover

Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by Dani Shapiro

Three Quarters, Two Dimes and a Nickel: A Memoir of Becoming Whole
by Steve Fiffer

Slow Motion
by Dani Shapiro

The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion

Blue Nights
by Joan Didion

Baptized by Love: How I Found Present Joy and Never Let It Go
by Danét Love Palmer

LISTENING

Podcasts

The Moth Podcast & The Moth Radio Hour
by themoth.org

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
by Bianca Marais

High Income Business Writing
by Ed Gandia

Heart of the Story
by Nadine Kenney Johnstone

The Writers’ Haven Podcast
by Christine Wolf

Writers on Writing
by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

The Creative Penn
by Joanna Penn

QWERTY Podcast
by Marion Roach Smith

WATCHING

America’s Next Great Author [coming soon!]

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