For Writers and Aspiring Writers

• Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
• Making Shapely Fiction - Jerome Stern
• Naked, Drunk and Writing - Adair Lara
• On Writer's Block - Victoria Nelson
• Seven Steps on the Writer's Path - Nancy Pickard & Lynn Lott
• The Art of Writing Memoir - Mary Karr
• Wild Mind - Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Open the Mind - Andy Couturier
• Writing Alone and With Others - Pat Schneider
• Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
• Writing Life Stories - Bill Roorbach
• Writing the Memoir - Judith Barrington
• The Situation and the Story - Vivian Gornick
• A Swim in the Pond in the Rain - George Saunders
• Mystery and Manners - Flannery O'Connor
• Meander, Spiral, Explode - Jane Allison
• When Structure Sets You Free - Nell Boeschenstein
• How to Write a Memoir in Essays, with Rebekah Taussig - by Marion Roach

Here's a list of workshops and events for writers: (more to come)

• The North Carolina Writers' Network spring and fall conferences
• Tablerock Writer's Workshop, Little Switzerland, NC
• Writers' Retreat at Wildacres, Little Switzerland, NC
• Atlanta Writers Conference
• Book Con, NY, NY
• Writeaways, all over the world
• Writers Digest, NY, NY

Here are some good literary journals for submitting your work, both fiction and non-fiction:

• The Sun
• Memoir Magazine
• Bellevue Literary Review
• F(r)iction
• Creative Nonfiction
• Narrative Magazine
• North Carolina Literary Journal