mem-oir, n. A narrative of personal experiences.

We all have stories to tell about our lives. We write memoirs for ourselves, to understand and appreciate the past, to plan for the future. We write memoirs to share them with a few others or with everyone. Some women memoirists spend years on this satisfying endeavor. To them, their memoir is a garden of memories that they savor both in the cultivation and in the harvest.

What will you find here? This website serves as a resource for women who are undertaking on their own or in a group to plan, write, and share their memoirs. You will find:

• Guidelines for writing a memoir;

• Insights concerning the writer's relationship to her memoir;

• Information about our upcoming memoir-writing classes and events as they are scheduled;

• A growing selection of published memoirs, organized and annotated to illustrate the possibilities of the memoir genre, along with books on memoir writing;

• Additional products, created by women for women, that encourage and stimulate the memoirist;

• A tour of the Memory Garden.

We also introduce ourselves as your guides in the engrossing and rewarding endeavor of telling your story.

This website came into existence in support of a seminar series, Writing Women's Memoirs, taught in northern California. Its resources have grown considerably since then. Watch for the upcoming announcement of our online journal of original brief memoirs, Women's Memoir Digest.