Writing Your Memoir

Memoirs are a passion and delight for me. The website will include information on memoirs I have read and critiqued and memoirs that I am eager to commence reading. There will be a section on memoir “fakes” and discussion on this time-honoured and infamous aspect to published memoirs.

Later on, I hope to include interviews with memoir specialists of all sorts, from across the country and beyond. There is so much to share and learn about this saucy and fascinating genre.

As I continue on with my memoir writing studies, teachings and adventures, I am certain of one thing: memoir writing is the most dynamic and unpredictable genre in practice today. There is simply no containing or controlling of this genre. Moreover, its huge popularity in the past decade particularly, has underscored one of its more significant changes: the memoir now belongs to “the people”, not just the rich, titled or famous-in-some-fashion. Memoirs have busted free of the last restraining holds put on them. The entire “movement” of memoir writing has been democratized. The people of the world can tell their stories – in whatever fashion pleases them, within the memoir mould.