“Ultimately, we are the sum of the stories we’ve lived and the stories we’ve heard.” Deena Metzger
Memoir is now one of the most popular and expressive literary forms of our times. Writers embrace the memoir and readers devour it!
Short Memoir is particularly narrower in scope than longer, more traditional memoir or autobiography.
One way to think of Short Memoir is as the short story of personal writing.
Short Memoir is focused on a particularly emotional part of the author’s life story, an intimate story concerned more with who is remembering, and why, rather than with what is remembered. Short Memoir is flexible, diverse memoir that is open to less conventional narrative forms, allowing more creative ways of unearthing our personal stories.