Best memoir Newsletters

by Thee Book Club

A literary archive of essays and musings A book club for lovers of language, feeling, and everything in between💐

by Sari Botton

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

by Matt Lillywhite 📚

Memoir Mondays is a corner of the internet for memoir and personal essays. Basically, what made me become a writer in the first place, long before I learned what a click-through rate was.

by Memoir Magazine

Memoir, Narrative Creative Nonfiction, Personal Essays, Own stories, and more. Memoirmag.com is on Substack, Baby!

by Lara Alcantara Lansberg

A raw, playful journey through healing, creativity, motherhood, and reinvention, turning life’s messiest moments into unapologetic art. It is going to get real.

by Memoir Nation

Weekly Inspiration for Writers - A weekly writing podcast with cohosts Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

by evil writer girl

esoteric knowledge, musings on writing and writers, cultural rabbit holes, the thoughts that arrive uninvited in the middle of the night, and everything else I meant to tell you before morning.

by Memoiring Book Club

All memoir, all the time. Welcome to our book club! Get access to authors and a writing community devoted to memoir. Reading. Writing. Memoiring.

by Wendy Pratt

Author of THE GHOST LAKE (memoir), BLACKBIRD SINGING AT DUSK (poetry). Fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Northern type.

by The Memoir Podcast

We are a community of memoirists who believe everyday lives are worth remembering. Each story is a window into a life well lived—part of an intergenerational project to share real stories, written and read aloud by those who lived them.

by KiKi Walter

The Memoirist is a welcoming community for writers to share memoirs and personal essays. You can also find us at thememoiristquarterly.com and on Medium at thememoiristpub.com.

by The Seductress Memoir

My personal Substack

by Josh Haden

Josh Haden's Mémoire about life, death, jazz, slowcore, and survival.

by Memoirs of a saved girl

A saved girl | Entrepreneur | Creative Marketer | tech founder

by How to Be an Artist: A Memoir

Combining research with storytelling, Taylor writes essays and creates art that investigates how place shapes resilience, using archival materials and site-specific work to reveal the interconnected transformations between landscape and history.

by Memoir Mentors

Memoir Mentors Substack is a supportive space for memoir writers to connect, share resources, and find inspiration on their storytelling journey.

by Richard Gordon

An Irish childhood, teenage years, and losing my father, brother and mother within 52 months, the collapse afterwards, and the process of living beyond it. Told as an immersive one-man-show audio experience. Founding Memberships for early supporters.

by Jude Jones (they/them)

This lit mag features memoirs of 50-200 words.

by Michael Williams 🇨🇦

Memoir Studio — a calm, welcoming space for life-story writers. Writing prompts, meditations, and courses for your memoir journey.

by Memoirs of a Music Junkie

Music is an addiction I have been feeding for half a century with sounds that have colored my life in wonder, escape, transport, even healing. Through a number of different series', this will be an exploration of an ongoing soundtrack that shaped my life.

by Stone Memoir

labyrinth mapping 𒂟 animism, folklore, herbcraft

by Abby Maslin

For curious readers, writers, and learners who have made life the ultimate classroom

by Ronit Plank

Welcome to Let's Talk Memoir where you can find the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, my upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools & encouragement, & support for memoirists at all stages of the memoir writing process. Let's get memoir-y together!

by Macy Guppy

A newsletter of short essays — each of which captures a moment of insight that connects to who we are as humans and universal truths; covers whatever pops into consciousness, from effects of being scammed to sex education from iris.