Peggy Atkins has spent almost 20 years on a mission: getting people to write. “I’m convinced everybody has a story, but not everybody recognizes that fact,” she says. Atkins has been ...

Cressida Leyshon interviews the author David Means about “The Depletion Prompts,” his story from the November 1, 2021, issue of The New Yorker.

"Legacy writing is a way of documenting your life experiences, values, and opinions to share with others. It can be a cherished gift to family and loved ones, and healing for the writers themselves." ...

Everyone has a story to tell. Writing a memoir is more than just documenting your life — it can help you process what you've gone through, capture a moment in history for descendants and help ...

Have you ever shared advice only to have it returned? Writing about family histories can reveal precious stories.

For several seconds, the room in Catonsville Senior Center is motionless. A woman — one of the growing number of elderly people writing their life stories in classes across the nation ...

I was grading assignments for an undergraduate course in memoir writing when I experienced a severe crisis of faith regarding the future — of academia, of writing, of thinking.