May Newsletter plus upcoming Author Q&A

Hello Fellow Memoirists!

I hope your lives and writing are going well.

I’m trying something new for the newsletter – I’m posting it to our website at www.memoirmentors.com and having that trigger an action to send out the newsletter as an email. I finally got it to work after six tries! Haha

I’m excited to report that Kristie Robin Johnson has agreed to join us for an author Q&A session following reading her book for our book club. Find out more below.

Polishing our first pages feedback

The Polishing Your First Pages sessions were a big hit! We had 12 people submit and comment upon each other’s first 10 pages over two sessions. Everyone who attended said that they would be interested in attending more of these in the future. We all learned a lot from each other. While we all enjoyed it, it was a lot of work to read and leave helpful feedback. Those who filled out the survey voted to have these sessions once every other month and limit the participants to six people. Things are pretty busy over here right now, so it might be a while before I get the next of these scheduled. Stay tuned.

If you’d like to weigh in, here’s the survey about the Polishing our pages session.

https://forms.gle/UatK9HAuaG9nsmkD6

Book Club – High Cotton by Kristie Robin Johnson

June 9, 2022 – 7:00pm Munich time, 10:00am Pacific

Sign up here

Our next book club selection is High Cotton by Kristie Robin Johnson. This is the first time we have reviewed a book. Those of us who have started reading this are really enjoying it. I’m so excited to discuss it with you and even more excited that Kristie has agreed to have an author Q&A session with us. See below.

Author Q&A with Kristie Robin Johnson

July 7, 2022 – 7:00pm Munich time, 10:00am Pacific

Sign up here

We’re very excited to welcome Kristie Robin Johnson for an author Q&A session.

If you have questions that you would like to ask her, please reply to this email or email me at xtina.howell@memoirmentors.com

https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/285722312/

Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet from Augusta, GA. She is the current Chair of the Department of Humanities at Georgia Military College’s Augusta campus where she is an Assistant Professor of English. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College and State University, Kristie’s writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received other awards and recognition including the 2020 Porter Fleming Prize for Nonfiction and the 2021 Page Prize for Flash Nonfiction. Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her first book, High Cotton, was released in 2020 by Raised Voice Press and was recognized as the finalist in the memoir category for 2021 Georgia Author of the Year.

May & June events

I’d prefer that you sign up through Meetup so I know who to expect and so that you know what the agenda is for the week, but if that’s too problematic, you can go directly to the Zoom link that we use every week:
https://zoom.us/j/4400465879?pwd=R0Y0RUp4YjAvdnJCODV0MkhNMXlmdz09

May 12: Write then Read: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/wndcrsydchbqb/
May 19: Write then Read: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/xndcrsydchbzb/
May 26: Speaking Your Story: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/zndcrsydchbjc/
June 2: Write then Read: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/wndcrsydchbqb/
June 9: Book Club: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/285713169/
June 16: Write then Read: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/xndcrsydcjbvb/
June 23: Write then Read: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/memoir-mentors/events/zndcrsydcjbfc/

JUNE 30 – NO MEETING