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Suggested Reading: Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create (David R. Godine, March 2025) by Elissa Altman The author of three books of creative nonfiction, including Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing (Random House, 2020), with more than a decade of experience teaching the craft of memoir, Elissa Altman poses important questions that any writer with a personal story to tell must confront: “Who am I to tell my story? And how can we grant ourselves permission to write the stories we’re compelled to tell when we’ve been told we shouldn’t?” Through an exploration of her own story, which started with what she calls a “non-secret secret” about her father that had a profound effect on her and her family, “binding us together for the entirety…

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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, March/April 2025

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