#memoirs — Public Fediverse posts

The September writing contest is open for submissions! The theme is OWN VOICES! Details are at the link. Reach out with any questions.

#OwnVoices #writingcontest #writing #writesky #booksky #poetry #ShortStory #essays #memoirs

https://www.underground-bookshelf.com/3337901_september-2026-contest-submissions

"In September, Henry Holt & Company’s Metropolitan Books imprint will publish Khalil’s memoir, #NoLandToStandOn, giving readers a window into the 104 days he spent in #ICEdetention, and the relationships he formed with his fellow inmates."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/100890-how-holt-finished-mahmoud-khalil-s-no-land-to-stand-on-in-just-six-months.html
#MahmoudKhalil #USpol #stateRepression #immigrantDetention #FreeSpeech #studentProtests #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #memoirs #books @bookstodon

Despite the starvation and genocide to which the children of #Gaza are subjected—and without ever having attended school—their character and dignity shine through in these moments. #Memoirs of a genocide survivor and a real-life human testimony. https://chuffed.org/project/177144
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/
#Gaza #GazaChildren #SaveGaza #StandWithGaza #EndTheGenocide #StopStarvingGaza #CeasefireNow #ProtectChildren #HumanRights #HumanityFirst #VoicesFromGaza #NeverAgain #JusticeForPalestine #FreePalestine

Book Giveaway!

“So, You Think You Know the Jersey Shore” by Maryanne Christiano-Mistretta

BOOK GIVEAWAY! USA ONLY!

Happy National Give Something Away Day!
Win one of my three books!
Just comment which one you’d like to read and I’ll put your names in a hat and pick a winner at the end of the day, around 5 p.m. EST.

If you win, I’ll ask for your email address so I can get your mailing address.
Totally free, all postage paid! USA ONLY!
(This contest is on Facebook and WordPress, so there will be two winners.)

Here’s the books to choose from:

1. “I Don’t Want to Be Like You” — My memoir growing up in the 1970s and dealing with bullies, and how they didn’t break me. Inspirational and honest.

2. “The Gypsy Smiled” — About a young woman trying to make it in the music business. The book was inspired by Lou Christie’s song “The Gypsy Cried.” Lots of kitschy fun — Elvis tribute artists, all-girl bands inspired by Tom Jones. Fun and silly.

3. “So, You Think You Know the Jersey Shore?” — A reference guide I put together about all the nooks and crannies of The Jersey Shore. What’s cool is that I took some of the photos for the book.

Apple Records legend, Brute Force, reading my book, “I Don’t Want to Be Like You”

Model: Pleasant Gehman

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'

Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/

#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon

"#FrenchBoy tells the unique story of an expatriate community, one which was initially French, then became French-Canadian, then Franco-American, and today, perhaps just American."

#FrenchCanadians in America with #DenisLedoux

https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/french-canadians-in-america-with-denis-ledoux/

#CanadiensFrançais #FrancoAmericans #FrancoAméricains #FrancoAméricanie #FrancoAmerica #LaGrandeHémorragie #AmériqueFrancophone #NouvelleAngleterre #assimilation #livres #books #mémoires #memoirs @DoomsdaysCW @bookstodon

Online book launch

#WhenThePineNeedlesFall: #Indigenous Acts of Resistance with authors #KatsitsakwasEllenGabriel and #SeanCarleton

Hosted by #PamPalmater (who wrote the forward)

audio: https://soundcloud.com/pampalmater/when-the-pine-needles-fall-book-launch
video: https://youtu.be/B7fp3NxTAl8

#EllenGabriel #Autochtones #Landback #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #Oka #OkaCrisis #CriseDOka #PremièresNations #FirstNations #LandDefenders #DéfenseursDeLaTerre #StateRepression #RépressionDÉtat #books #livres #memoirs #mémoires

#WarriorLifePodcast