Announcements

Issue 10 will hit newsstands and bookstores on June 1^st.

Memoir(and) has added new features that wonderfully complement our exciting line up of writers and poets. Pam Houston joins our editor in chief, Claudia Sternbach, to discuss memoir and its presence in her latest novel Contents May Have Shifted in our newly launched Interview feature.

Pam Houston is an award-winning author and professor of creative writing at University of California, Davis. Her collection of best-selling fiction includes, Cowboys Are My Weakness, winner of the 1993 Western States Book Award; Waltzing the Cat, winner of the Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction; A Little More About Me, a memoir; and her latest novel Contents May Have Shifted recently published by W. W. Norton.

She is both writer and adventurer whose life is nearly identical to the richly drawn characters that have captured millions of readers around the world. If Pam Houston has written it, she has experienced it, and we are delighted to kick off this new feature with such an inspiring author in our opening pages.

To read the full interview, subscribe today.

Current Submission Period: Noon Pacific time, May 1, 2012 through noon Pacific time, August 16, 2012.
Memoir (and) is now accepting submissions for Issue 12. We look forward to receiving your prose, poetry, graphic memoirs or comic, experimental works, narrative photographs, and more. For submission guidelines, go to our Submit Page or write us at 1316 67th Street, #8, Emeryville, CA 94608.

Deadline For This Submission Period
All submissions must either be uploaded to our Submission Manager by noon Pacific time, August 16, 2012 or, if sent by snail mail, bear a postmark no later than August 16, 2012. We will email you regarding the status of your submission within twenty weeks of the close of the submission period. If you did not give us an email address, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope with your submission so that we can reply to you via snail mail.

We look forward to seeing your work.

Memoir Journal’s new Master Class series debuts this spring. If you’re a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area, you’ll be interested in our calendar of daylong intensives with some of the area’s best teaching writers. All classes will be held on Saturdays at Art Jam* in Berkeley.

Click to view course description and registration details below:

Throw Cliché Under the Bus

with Wallace Baine, May 19

“Off-site: held at Capitola Book Cafe in Capitola.

Zuihitsu: Following the Brush

with Liza Dalby, June 16

And Then a Plank in Reason Broke: Memoir & Uncertainty

with Genine Lentine, July 14

Right at Your Fingertips: Evoking Vivid Settings 

with Chris DeLorenzo, August 4

Embodied Words: Writing Your Body’s Narratives

with Jen Cross, August 25

The Feast of Losses: Writing into Transience

with Genine Lentine, September 15

Feeding Your Creativity: Food Memoirs

with Laurel Miller, October 6

The Lyric Microscope: Micro-essays and Evocative Scenes

with Rachel Richardson, October 20

Recasting Family Stories

with Frances Lefkowitz, November 10

Congratulations to our prize winners for Issue 10. Many thanks to our submission readers and Editorial Board for their dedication in finding the best out of many deserving submissions.

Issue 10

Grand Prize Winner:

Jane Wong/ Prose: “Unsent Correspondence”

Second Prize Winner:

Mariko Nagai/ Prose: “Excerpt from Imaginary Death”

Third Prize Winner:

Kierstin Bridger/ Poetry: “Storm Warning”

Photography Winner:

Brigitte Grignet

This holiday season, when you give to Memoir Journal you also receive.  By making a donation to our not-for profit organization, you continue to support our publishing activities, and in return for your generosity, we will send you one of our unique reading packages–the perfect gift for yourself or your favorite memoir enthusiast.  Browse our different package options by clicking here or visit our Donate page to learn more.