Your life provides ample content for creative storytelling. Learn key tips for shaping your stories into a memoir.

Whether you’ve lived an extraordinary life or you want to capture the beauty of everyday experiences, your life contains plenty of stories waiting to be told. Perhaps, memoir is the genre for you.

In this episode, host Clarissa Moll explores how to write memoir with special guest, author and podcaster Christie Purifoy. Drawing on Christie’s life experiences and helpful coaching tips from memoirist Marion Roach Smith, you’ll learn how to shape your writing to highlight your life’s story and offer your reader new insights into bigger truths. 

The Writerly Life is a production of hope*writers.

Written and compiled by Clarissa Moll

Edited and mixed by Tyler Anderson

Music by Karla Colahan