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Memoir Prize for Books

Winners to be Announced October 3rd, 2025!

Jun 26, 2025 • Memoir Magazine

Announcing the 2025 Memoir Prize Winners!

And the winners are...Click to explore the full list of 1 Grand Prize, 2 Finalists. 22 Category Winners, and 20 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to…

Oct 3, 2025 • Memoir Magazine

Memoir of a DREAMer by Magda X

*Featured Image: “45 DOLLAR MAN” by Alex Nizovsky, Mixed Media: United States One-Dollar Bills x45, Black Acrylic, Canvas.

Aug 30, 2025

Healing Through Storytelling by Melissa Zook

Featured artwork by Danielle Hark

Aug 30, 2025

How My Father Groomed Me For Rape Culture by Sheryl Burpee Dluginski

My newly developed curves seemed to give me a dangerous power over my father and other men, which troubled me because I couldn’t seem to discern its…

Aug 30, 2025

Most Popular

Announcing the 2025 Memoir Prize Winners!

Oct 3, 2025 • Memoir Magazine

You Can Call Me Betty by Allison Wehrle

Apr 10, 2025 • Memoir Magazine

The 2024 Memoir Prize Winners

Apr 1, 2025

Memoir of a DREAMer by Magda X

Aug 30, 2025

FEATURED ESSAYS

Announcing the 2025 Memoir Prize Winners!

And the winners are...Click to explore the full list of 1 Grand Prize, 2 Finalists. 22 Category Winners, and 20 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to…

Oct 3, 2025 • Memoir Magazine

Main Street Madness by Mary McBeth

*Featured Image of poet Lucille Clifton as a child.

Apr 9, 2025

The Body History by Jessica Marks

*Featured Artwork by Lauren Elfring

Apr 9, 2025

Ashes of American Flags by Justin Florey

* Featured Image: A protester carries a U.S.

Apr 9, 2025

Humor

How Calvin Wore His Mask by Nathan Holic

Apr 9, 2025

Hearts Are Public By Lola Kelly

with Featured Artwork by Elisa Peterson

Apr 9, 2025

My Korean Therapist by Joan Sung

with Featured Artwork by Elisa Peterson

Apr 9, 2025

Courting Miss George by Garnett Cohen

My favorite grade school teacher was Miss George (the title Ms did not yet exist) in fourth grade.

Apr 9, 2025

Identity

MELANCHOLAI by Tomislav Silepeter

Apr 10, 2025

Old With Jokes by Leanne Grabel

Apr 9, 2025

The Body by Darcey Gohring

*featured artwork “The 2020s” by Madari Pendas

Apr 9, 2025

Ditch Days by Kase Johnstun

with Featured Art by Danielle Hark

Apr 9, 2025

Mind over Matter

My Aunt Who Changed Her Name by Cecilia Donohoe

*with Featured Artwork: “Childless Madonna” by Fierce Sonia

Apr 10, 2025

Harrowing by Natalie Coufal

Featured Image: “Voices” by Fierce Sonia

Apr 9, 2025

The Question of Spilled Milk: A Short Parable by Tracy Ross

Featured Image: “Integration6784” by Danielle Hark

Apr 8, 2025

Vigil by Shirlee Jellum

*Featured Artwork by Tara Koger/Columbus Community Deathcare

Apr 8, 2025

Displaced

Memoir of a DREAMer by Magda X

*Featured Image: “45 DOLLAR MAN” by Alex Nizovsky, Mixed Media: United States One-Dollar Bills x45, Black Acrylic, Canvas.

Aug 30, 2025

Strawberry Mud by Shizue Seigel

My Auntie Stella’s strawberry chiffon pie was an airy, creamy confection of crushed berries, whipped cream and meringue lightly held together with…

Apr 9, 2025

Cost of Strawberries by Kimberly Peterson

Featured Artwork: “Mammon” by David Weinholtz

Apr 9, 2025

A lot You Don’t Know, Hijo by David Perez

Featured Image: “Weekdays” by William O’Brien

Apr 7, 2025

Inspirational

Healing Through Storytelling by Melissa Zook

Featured artwork by Danielle Hark

Aug 30, 2025

An Eighth Grade Moment by Edna Garte

*featured art by Elisa Peterson

Apr 9, 2025

Sourdough, Ancestors, and Other Recipes for Time Travel by Edvige Giunta

Featured Artwork: “Working the Line” by Kristina Moriconi

Apr 9, 2025

Misconstrued by Karen DeBonis

*Featured Image: Herstory by Carolyn Schlam

Apr 9, 2025

Survival

Years in a Pigsty by Sue Tong

The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a tragic chapter in China’s history.

Apr 9, 2025

Hon by Laurie Harriton

*Featured Art: A TEAR by Carolyn Schlam, Ink and Watercolor, 14″ x 11″, 2020

Apr 9, 2025

Cost of Strawberries by Kimberly Peterson

Featured Artwork: “Mammon” by David Weinholtz

Apr 9, 2025

“Iris on My Mind” by Odeta Xheka

Featured Image: BILL BRANDT | IRIS MURDOCH AT HER FRONT DOOR, STEEPLE ASTON, OXFORDSHIRE, 1963

Apr 9, 2025

Secrets

Why Do People Kiss? by Ashley Burke

*Featured Artwork: “Dare To Be” by Carolyn Schlam

Apr 8, 2025

Beautiful, Disturbing, True by Heather Caliri

Featured Artwork: Elisa Peterson

Apr 8, 2025

Playland by Jacqueline Regan

*Featured Artwork: by Phoebe Mol

Apr 7, 2025

Dancing with the Darkness of My Soul by Susan Moore

Featured Artwork: “Tears” by Danielle Hark

Apr 4, 2025

Grief & Trauma

An Ephemeral Experience of Permanence by Amanda St Claire

*featured Image: Souce of Beauty by Mara Lefebvre

Apr 9, 2025

Hypostasis by Amy Bailey

Artwork: “ENCASED” by Carolyn Schlam

Apr 9, 2025

This Is Not Some Story About a Kid That Got Molested — Gary Smothers

with Featured artwork “Summer Shapes” by Norton Pease

Apr 9, 2025

How Can Black People Go Camping at a Time Like This? by Debra Stone

with Featured Artwork: “Spring Cleaning for the Soul” by Elle Powell

Apr 9, 2025

Drowning by Natasha Williams

Featured Art: “Somersault” by Ann Marie Sekeres

Apr 9, 2025

How 90 Day Fiancé Helped Me Tell My Story as the Child of a Mail Order Bride by Katya Suvorova

Featured Image: “Portrait in Red” by Temo Svirely

Apr 9, 2025

Car Date, 1972 by Stacy Pendergrast

*Featured Artwork from the “Motel” Series by Michael Tronn.

Apr 8, 2025

Please Survive by Catharine Lucas

*Featured Artwork: “Bewoulf” by Megan Phipps

Apr 8, 2025

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