What happens when a boring white girl grows up in Los Angeles with a lesbian mom, a developmentally-disabled brother, and a longing to be a Latina? She ends up in a Christmas tree costume, of course! Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood--October 2009.
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- How to Craft and Market Life S...
Wilsonville Public Library
Sunday, November 15 at 3:30pm - Reading/Signing/General Merriment
Book Soup
Sunday, November 8 at 2:00pm - Reading/Signing/General Merriment
Latitude 33 Books
Saturday, November 7 at 6:00pm - Books, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
Thursday, October 29 at 7:30pm - Elliott Bay Book Company
Elliott Bay Book Company
Friday, October 23 at 7:00pm - Powell's Books on Hawthorne
Portland, Oregon
Thursday, October 22 at 7:30pm - University of Oregon Bookstore
University of Oregon Bookstore
Thursday, October 15 at 5:00pm - 2009-2010 Northwest Author Series
Wilsonville Public Library
Thursday, October 15 at 3:30pm - Wordstock Literary Festival
Oregon Convention Center
Saturday, October 10 at 12:00pm - Pacific Northwest Booksellers'...
Holiday Inn Portland
Thursday, September 10 at 12:00pm
Melissa Hart Holidays got you down? Writer-up, people! See blog post for details:
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The holidays are upon us, and I’m embarking on a cross-country journey with a toddler in the pursuit of some cranberries and mashed potatoes with my in-laws. I love my in-laws, and I tend to like ...
Melissa Hart Part two of Mickey's article in the Examiner about my memoir workshop, with another fun slide show . . .
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A memoir is a personal account, a biography, short or long, telling what only the writer can know firsthand. Writing a memoir can be an act of faith and generosity. To get a memoir published is a whole other road. ...
Melissa Hart Fine article in the Examiner about my Northwest Author Series workshop in memoir, and a darned good slideshow, too!
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Can anybody write a memoir? And how the heck does this relate to longevity issues? This relates to longevity by the fact that you are the only one who knows your story and it is unique: When you go, it goes. ...
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Thank you to Christina Katz for hosting my talk on memoir writing for the Northwest Author Series, and to Cara Holman for blogging about the presentation at http://caraholman.wordpress.com/2009/11/
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I went to hear Melissa Hart speak, this afternoon. She shared with us that she legally changed her name before publishing her memoir “Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood” to protect the privacy of those involved. ...
Melissa Hart Preparing workshop for "How to Craft and Market Life Stories" for the Northwest Author Series tomorrow . . . and my printer just ran out of ink!
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Hosted by Christina Katz at the Wilsonville Public LibrarySunday, November 15 at 3:30 p.m.$5 at the door ($3 for students & seniors)
Melissa Hart A mention of Gringa in Huffington Post, within a terrific little article on book trailers.
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Last month, in the name of book promotion, I hopped in the shower, made out in the street, drank from a water fountain in Central Park, gyrated behind a curtain and flashed my underwear. What for?
Melissa Hart Aw, someone in Montana just called me a yuppie after reading my latest essay in High Country News. If only I WERE "upwardly-mobile" . . .
Melissa Hart Arrived home from the book tour to find this perceptive review from Story Circle!
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Gringa: by Melissa Hart: Story Circle Book Reviews
Melissa Hart Reading from Gringa at Book Soup in West Hollywood at 2:00 today, and cheered by this review in the Oregonian!
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"What's best for the child."The phrase gets bandied about a lot in divorce proceedings. For a young Melissa Hart, it was a judge's justification for taking her away from her mother, a loving, vibrant woman who happened to be a lesbian."I must consider what's best for the children," the judge said. ....
Melissa Hart Thanks to a recent Long Beach State J-School grad for this profile; he mercifully abstained from digging up and publishing my high school senior photograph.
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Melissa Hart: Study in contradictory cultures
Melissa Hart Reading and discussion on how to write memoir about social issues at Latitude 33 Books in Laguna Beach, Saturday 6 PM. My lovely younger sister will be there--hopefully, she'll sing for us!
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If you can tell your own stories skillfully in an entertaining voice, you’ll find opportunities to publish short essays in magazines and newspapers. You’ll also have a shot at publishing book-length memoir. This presentation will teach you how to identify a particular time period and/or theme in your life on which to f...ocus your memoir. We’ll talk about the structure of short memoir and the various forms it can take, including essays, social commentary, and slice-of-life vignettes. The course will cover characterization, plot, setting and theme. We’ll discuss how to craft a book-length work, and we’ll pay particular attention to the challenges of memory, dialogue, hyperbole, and responses from family members and friends. Participants will receive a bibliography of current books on crafting memoir, as well as a list of magazine and newspaper editors particularly interested in the genre. You’ll come away with a new-found respect for the stories that only you can tell, and a solid sense of where and how to market them to editors.
Melissa Hart is the author of the memoir Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009). Her short memoir has appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Mothering, The Advocate, Hemispheres, Fourth Genre, Woman’s Day, High Country News, Orion, and various other publications. Melissa teaches journalism at the University of Oregon, and memoir writing for U.C. Berkeley’s online extension program. She’s a contributing editor to The Writer Magazine.
The Northwest author series is founded and hosted by Christina Katz.
Time:3:30PM Sunday, November 15th
Location:Wilsonville Public Library
Melissa Hart Reading at the College of Creative Studies, UCSB this Wednesday--my alma mater. I still feel like I'm 21 and wickedly posting notes on the poetry prof's door saying "Class will meet in the pub today."
