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For Writers and Aspiring Writers

Here's a list of helpful books on writing:

  • 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


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