writing nonfiction

I’d enter the game with all the belief that comes naturally to a theatrically inclined child—it takes a good audience to see the truth of a good actor...

A memoir isn’t about recording everything that’s ever happened to us. It’s about building a narrative around a soul theme.

Whether you are using your personal experiences and observations in memoir, short story, or poem form, you get to choose what you include. Shawna Ayoub Ainslie guides truth-tellers with three self-reflective questions to make choices in writing about their own lives a little easier to live with.