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** Your memoir starts next week
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Hi ,

If writing a memoir has been on your bucket list, your opportunity to start is coming up next week.

On Wednesday, Oct. 7, Poynter’s Mining for Memoir ([link removed]) begins its five-week live online workshop with award-winning memoirist and writing professor Mallary Tenore Tarpley ([link removed]) , author of “SLIP.”

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“I don’t think you need to get an MFA to write a book, but I do think it helps to have additional support that can help you make progress. This is why I now teach writing workshops — to provide guidance and support in hopes that I can help others make meaningful progress on their own memoirs in community with others.” says Mallary Tenore Tarpley.

Across five 90-minute workshops, you’ll learn how to:

* Find the focus that makes your memoir distinct
* Turn memories into vivid scenes
* Research and report your own life story
* Navigate writing about family and difficult truths
* Structure personal narrative, reporting and research
* Develop a book proposal
* Understand the path to agents and publishers

You’ll also explore memoir+, an approach that combines personal narrative with reporting and research to broaden your story’s scope and reach.

📖 Mining for Memoir: A Memoir Writing & Publishing Workshop Series ([link removed])

Live online, Oct. 7-Nov. 4, 2026, 2-3:30 p.m. Eastern on Wednesdays

Sign up as soon as you can. Onboarding emails are starting to go out this week, and the first Mining for Memoir workshop begins Oct. 7.
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